The Brooklyn-based disco band Escort released the lush throwback “Starlight” online in 2006, and gained some viral recognition thanks to the Muppet-laden recut of its hyperkinetic 2007 follow-up “All Through The Night.” Both tracks are included on the band’s fine, long-in-the-works debut LP, which puts Escort in the rarefied disco-revival company of fellow New York act Hercules And Love Affair and Milwaukee 10-piece Kings Go Forth (which got the Tom Moulton remix treatment on 2010’s Don’t Take My Shadow Ep). Blending lessons learned from Moulton and his genre-blending contemporary Walter Gibbons, the lush proto-disco productions of Gamble ...
- 1/31/2012
- avclub.com
Walter Gibbons Jungle Music: Mixed with Love: Essential & Unreleased Remixes 1976-1986 (Strut)
This is an album of disco remixes, which is automatically going to be a fun listen. But in this case, the remixer was not solely concerned with dancefloor utility: Gibbons's remixes are transformative in unexpected ways, and if I were dancing to them, frankly I'd get distracted by their quirks, which are even rhythmically unusual at times. He makes odd aspects stand out starkly, even strangely.
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This is an album of disco remixes, which is automatically going to be a fun listen. But in this case, the remixer was not solely concerned with dancefloor utility: Gibbons's remixes are transformative in unexpected ways, and if I were dancing to them, frankly I'd get distracted by their quirks, which are even rhythmically unusual at times. He makes odd aspects stand out starkly, even strangely.
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- 8/23/2010
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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