Various Artists - Disco Discharge: Classic Disco / Various - Deluxe Gatefold Packaging - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Duo Conradi-Gehlen was founded by Stefan Conradi and Bernd Gehlen after both participated in the television recording of Mauricio Kagel's InchRepertoireInch from InchStaatstheaterInch in 1986. At this time, Stefan Conradi and Bernd Gehlen were both studying with Professor Wilhelm Bruck at the Academy of Music in Karlsruhe. They have so far performed and/or premiered works of John Cage, Eckart Beinke, Violeta Dinescu, Bernd Franke, Milko Kelemen, Silvana da Lotti, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Alexander Raskatov, Matthias Kaul and many others at numerous concerts. The Duo Conradi-Gehlen is also active in the area of concert pedagogy and the imparting of new music in secondary schools. Throughout the country, the Duo works with school classes from all areas, from furtherance schools to high schools, in order to make the most varied expressive possibilities of modern music accessible to young people, to help them experience themselves and to express themselves in concerts.

Two CDs. Welcome back to Demon's 'Disco Discharge' series, originally issued in a series of 2CD collections between 2009 and 2012. The themed compilations of full length, extended Disco originals, lovingly curated by the mysterious InchMrPinksInch and with detailed sleeve notes by author and Disco aficionado Alan Jones, have remained in demand among collectors and the club cognoscenti. This time around, the series kicks off with 'Classic Disco' and 'Disco Fever USA', both issued in new formatted Deluxe 2CD gatefold packaging. While Disco happened the whole world over, 'Disco Fever USA' cherry picks 20 of the milestones hailing from it's American birthplace. Alongside lesser known cuts from the likes of Fern Kinney, Gloria Gaynor and Boys Town Gang there's also another wealth of treasures including a rare instrumental version of Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Boogie Wonderland', the sublime 'Like An Eagle' by sometime gay porn actor Dennis Parker and Bionic Boogie's 'Risky Changes', a track you could say predicted Chicago House sound a full ten years before the fact. Each track included is the full length 12Inch / Album version and are unmixed so DJ Friendly.

The second Om-ing, Conference of the Birds, features Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, with production by Om, originally released in 2006 on Holy Mountain.