Crescent Street Hustlers - The Disco Sound Of Montreal - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When it comes to a greater understanding of the golden age of the euro-disco movement of the 1970s through the 80s, there are few dance music collectives on the scene today that are more knowledgeable on the subject than the Crescent Street Hustlers. On their excellent debut album, InchThe Disco Sound of MontrealInch - their first for the newly revived Afro Wax imprint, they paid tribute to the Montreal disco scene of the late 1970s, focusing on the original artists that made the Montreal scene pop. On their latest endeavor, InchThe Disco Sound Of Europe,Inch the map is drawn wider as they use the same formula to bring the Euro-disco phenomena of the 1970s and 80s into greater focus by taking some of their favorite hits of the era and remaking them in their own image. All songs chosen were among the most iconic of the era such as the French euro disco group, Bimbo Jet's 1974 smash InchEl Bimbo,Inch the Belgian Latin disco group Two Man Sound's 1981 euro-disco hit InchCapital Tropical,Inch InchChinese Kung FuInch from the French disco mavens Banzai, the 1976 hit InchIsabelle And The RainInch from the famed French musician and orchestrator Jo Boyer, InchLove & DevotionInch - the 1986 Hi NRG hit from the disco act Michael Bow from the stable of Belgian production wiz Fonny de Wulf, the early synth pop of Rofo (Ronnie Verrept & Fonny de Wulf) from 1982, the Caribbean flavor of Chocolat's InchThe Kings of ClubsInch from 1976, and the disco/synthpop of Stop and their 1985 international smash, InchWake Up.Inch Much love and attention were paid to each track, which reflects the adventurous spirit and deep devotion that the Crescent Street Hustlers brought to this ambitious project - which relies on the past to build a more perfect future of dance music.

The hot new dance dance collective known as the Crescent Street Hustlers are on a mission to revive and modernize the Montreal disco scene, celebrating the great dance music that thrived in that city primarily in the late 1970s, at the height of the global disco explosion. One of the most original and colorful bands of that era, The Great Disco Bouzouki Band, married the unlikely sounds of Greek Bouzouki music to disco music, and it worked beautifully, exposing the fact that these two forms of music, above all else, was dance music at it's core. Looking back, it is not surprising that The Great Disco Bouzouki Band scored a hit with InchDisco Bouzouki.Inch Crescent Street Hustlers completely reimagine the track in modern times with the of their new single featuring 4 inventive mixes including a radio mix, an instrumental version, an extended mix and an extended instrumental mix for this exclusive .

The Crescent Street Hustlers are a Montreal based dance collective on a mission to modernize and revive the Canadian disco scene, celebrating the great dance music that thrived in that city primarily in the late 1970s, at the height of the global disco explosion. One of Canada's most prolific disco producers, the Montréal based songwriter, record company executive and producer Tony Green was at the forefront of the Canadian disco scene, operating under a number of aliases - one of which was the group known as Colorblind, who scored a hit with the track InchKalei-DiscoInch in 1977. On their latest single, Crescent Street Hustlers pay tribute with their own version of the classic track, while still holding true to it's original essence with an updated sound aimed at both the modern dance music fan and the traditionalists, featuring 3 exclusive mixes including an extended mix plus a bonus stripped-down element mix to keep things interesting.