This set dives into a decade where dance music wasn’t a genre yet — it was a meeting point. Funk, disco, soul, pop, early electronics and radio hits all shared the same floor, the same instinct, the same need to move.
The journey opens in a confident mid-tempo zone, where groove comes before speed and songs still breathe. Voices lead the way, melodies stay close, and the dancefloor warms up naturally. As the set unfolds, the pulse tightens: basslines become more insistent, rhythms more mechanical, energy more collective.
From Gloria Gaynor and Donna Summer to ABBA, Chic, Bee Gees, Kool & The Gang and Giorgio Moroder, this is not about hits lined up for effect — it’s about how those records spoke to each other in real time.
The final stretch pushes forward, touching early electronic tension and proto-club energy, without losing its human core.
No script. No safety net.
Just instinct, selection, and the pleasure of rediscovering where it all started.
This is the track list:
1 - Gloria Gaynor - I will Survive (1978)
2 - Labelle - Lady Marmelade (1974)
3 - Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation (1980)
4 - La Bionda - One For You, One For Me (1978)
5 - Donna Summer - Hot Stuff (1979)
6 - ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (1979)
7 - Domenic Troiano - Brothers JohnsonStomp! (1980)
8 - Harvey Mason - Groovin' You (1979)
9 - Osibisa - Sunshine Day (1975)
10 - Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train to London (1979)
11 - Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing (1977)
12 - Narada Michael Walden - Tonight I'm Alright (1979)
13 - Kool & The Gang - Celebration (1980)
14 - Evelyn Champagne King - Let's Get Funky Tonight (1980)
15 - Jackie Moore - This Time, Baby (1979)
16 - Anita Ward - Ring My Bell (1979)
17 - Silvester - You make me feel (1978)
18 - Tavares - Disco Inferno (1977)
19 - Carrie Lucas - I Gotta Keep Dancin' (Keep Smiling) (1977)
20 - Chic - Everybody Dance (1978)
21 - The Real Thing - Can you feel the force (1978)
22 - Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity (1977)
23 - Rockets - On the Road Again (1978)
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