disco Archive

18 Aug 2022

Album review: Azymuth – Telecommunication

By Bill Kopp
disco, funk, fusion, instrumental, jazz, reissue, review, vinyl, world
It may be difficult to imagine such a thing today, some five decades after the fact, but in the early 1970s, jazz/funk/fusion was more than a blip on the commercial […]
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29 Jun 2018

Liner Notes News

By Bill Kopp
compilation, disco, funk, garage, instrumental, jazz, new release, pop, rawk, reissue, surf, vinyl
I’ve been extraordinarily busy lately. After devoting a large chunk of 2017 to the writing of my first book, Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of […]
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11 Dec 2017

Sidney Barnes: A Preview

By Bill Kopp
blues, disco, funk, interview, jazz, pop, psych, r&b, rawk
Note: I recently conducted a wide-ranging and lively interview with Sidney Barnes; the result of that is an in-depth feature running soon in Record Collector Magazine. In the meantime, this […]
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22 Mar 2017

Quick Takes, Part Three

By Bill Kopp
disco, jazz, new wave, powerpop, psych, punk, r&b, reissue, soul
Today I take a quick look at ten archival releases of note. Tim Buckley — Wings: The Complete Singles 1966-1974 The music of Tim Buckley (yeah, late father of the […]
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09 Feb 2016

Album Review: Todd Rundgren & Utopia — Disco Jets

By Bill Kopp
disco, pop, reissue, review
Todd Rundgren has long been known for being, as the expression goes, ahead of the curve. His experiments, forays, and even innovations in computer and video technology are well-documented. The […]
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