Like most people I imagine, my understanding of disco went as far as Saturday Night Fever. I wanted to write down, as best as I could, the things that helped me to discover that Disco far from sucks. Call it a starting place to discover more about dance music if you will, something to help a newcomer (not an experienced old cynic) what direction they might have to take.

In 2004, during Suss’d tenure of the classic Salsoul label, Ian Dewhirst approached me about the possibility of putting together a Salsoul ‘Flavas’ compilation, reflecting the more electronic side of the labels output during the early 80’s – the type of stuff I would have been playing on the black scene during theElectro-Funk era.

 

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I’ve been looking forward to this night for some time, billed as “the story of Manchester’s early ‘80s Electro-Funk scene,” not just because there’s likely to be some great music on offer, but because the organisers have taken the time to augment this with film, discussion and art to try and dig deeper into the story of this era, which for reasons unknown seems to have been totally overlooked following the House music explosion in 1988.

Adam Wilson is part of the collective of Dj’s that play at the Pure Space night in Manchester and he sent us this mix over which was recorded live at the night back in April of this year. He started playing disco, funk and soul as a direct result of attending Dave Haslam’s Yellow night in Manchester in the late 90’s, and has never looked back.

 

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