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Allmusic claims some have argued that Isaac Hayes and Barry White were playing what would be called disco music as early as 1971.
A few artists still managed to score disco hits in the early 1980s, but the term " disco " became unfashionable in the new decade and was eventually replaced by " dance music ", " dance pop ", and other identifiers.
The Hues Corporation's 1974 " Rock the Boat ", a U. S. # 1 single and million-seller, was one of the early disco songs to hit # 1.
Other notable early disco hits include The Jackson 5 ’ s " Dancing Machine " ( 1974 ), Barry White ’ s " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " ( 1974 ), LaBelle ’ s " Lady Marmalade " ( 1975 ) and Silver Convention ’ s " Fly Robin Fly " ( 1975 ).
Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.
In the early 1980s, NYC disco DJ Larry Levan, known for his eclectic mixes, gained a cult following, and the Paradise Garage, the nightclub at which he spun, became the prototype for the modern dance club where the music and the DJ were showcased.
Some early house productions used parts of bass lines from earlier disco tracks.
Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.
" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.
In the early 1980s, after having been eclipsed by the popularity of disco and Brazilian rock, Samba reappeared in the media with a musical movement created in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.
As disco and funk were dominating the charts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, soul went in the direction of quiet storm.
After the decline of disco and funk in the early 1980s, soul music became influenced by electro music.
It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the " Krautrock " of bands like Kraftwerk.
From the mid-1970s, DJs in early discothèques were performing similar tricks with disco songs ( using loops and tape edits ) to get dancers on the floor and keep them there.
As " My Eyes Adored You " climbed the Hot 100 singles chart in early 1975, Valli and Gaudio managed to get The Four Seasons signed with Warner Bros. Records as the disco era dawned.
Most notably, he played for disco star Tina Charles and her producer Biddu, whose backing tracks were an influence on Horn's early work.
They struggled hard to find producers who could come up with the right material, and partnerships with Hugo & Luigi ( through which they did produce one commercially successful early disco record, entitled, " Hey Girl, Come and Get It " in 1975 ) and Van McCoy were notably less successful.
* " Sultana ", a disco song from the early 1970s by the Norwegian band Titanic
This synthpop was prefigured in the 1960s and 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco, the " Kraut rock " of bands like Kraftwerk, the three albums made by Bowie with Brian Eno in his " Berlin period ", and Yellow Magic Orchestra's early albums.
" Pillow Talk " has been called an early example of prototypical disco music and went on to sell two million copies.
In the early 1980s, fewer and fewer disco records were being released, but the genre remained popular in some Chicago nightclubs and on at least one radio station, WBMX-FM.
" ( 1986 ), moving house music away from its " posthuman tendencies back towards the lush " soulful sound of early disco music.
Soca reached its modern form by the early 1970s under the influence of American soul, disco and funk music, which reached Trinidadian artists when they began recording in New York City ; by this time, most of the Indian-derived elements had been removed from the genre.

early and sound
The phonograph today, for all its high fidelity and stereophonic sound, is precisely what the early art purveyors in the movies wished to make of the camera.
Coming to the throne at such an early age, Alfonso had served no apprenticeship in the art of ruling, but he possessed great natural tact and a sound judgment ripened by the trials of exile.
The Amiga's native ability to simultaneously play back multiple digital sound samples made it a popular platform for early " tracker " music software.
An early demo of the game has been found, with crude graphics, no sound and poor collision detection.
One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".
Comedy was ideal for the early silent films, as it was dependent on visual action and physical humour rather than sound.
DeMille remade his early hit The Squaw Man twice, once as a silent film The Squaw Man ( 1918 ) and then as a sound film The Squaw Man ( 1931 ).
Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire reported to Inpress magazine's Andrez Bergen that " I do think the manipulation of sound in our early days-the physical act of cutting up tapes, creating tape loops and all that-has a strong reference to Burroughs and Gysin ...."
* Compact Cassette used with sound recording and reproduction and data storage for early microcomputers
Other early forms include " chipmuck " and " chipminck ," and in the 1830s they were also referred to as " chip squirrels ," probably in reference to the sound they make.
Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.
In the early 1990s, CBM continued selling Amigas with 7 – 14 MHz 68000-family CPUs ( even though Amiga 3000 with 25 MHz 68030 was in the market by that time ), when PCs with 33 MHz 486s, high-color graphics cards and SoundBlaster ( or compatible ) sound cards offered comparable, and eventually higher, performance, albeit at higher prices.
A slightly earlier, surprisingly reliable version of the same concept was to bundle a sequence of audio digital " signal " and " no signal " information ( i. e. " sound " and " silence ") on magnetic cassette tape for use with early home computers.
The slap style cuts through the sound of a band better than simply plucking the strings, and allowed the bass to be more easily heard on early sound recordings, as the recording equipment of that time did not favor low frequencies.
On early recording mediums ( until 1925 ) such as wax cylinders and discs carved with an engraving needle, sound balancing meant that musicians had to be literally moved in the room.
In their early correspondence, Luther expressed boundless admiration for all Erasmus had done in the cause of a sound and reasonable Christianity and urged him to join the Lutheran party.
The late ' 20s were full of static, stagey talkies as artists in front of and behind the camera struggled with the stringent limitations of the early sound equipment and their own uncertainty as to how to utilize the new medium.
Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".
He describes this early period in sound for film:
Recent years saw a resurgence in the early positive punk and deathrock sound, in reaction to aggrotech, industrial, and synthpop, which had taken over many goth clubs, bands with an earlier goth sound are becoming popular.
The most widely acknowledged precursors of the grindcore sound are Siege, a hardcore punk group, and Repulsion, an early death metal outfit.

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