DyscoSouljah wrote:

Hi everyone,
As this is my first post, I might need some introduction. I'm a Belgian Disco-collector, especially interested in Euro-Disco.
On my search through dark basements and garage-sales, I find myself always coming home with records which are rarely on Discogs.
I mean, Euro-Disco IMO is more that Silver Convention, Boney M, and Giorgio Moroder. There's been released quite some good stuff.

Now, as I really like that rare Euro stuff, I was wondering why they are often under-priced. I would expect, American or Japanese collectors bidding high for records which were never released over seas, just like we do. I feel it's somehow unfair, we bid three times more for an American pressing, just because we are on the other side of the pont, and vice versa we don't experience that. Nevertheless, when including these fabolous tracks (e.g. Amadeo, etc...) in mixes, everyone goes crazy, even Amercans.
I don't want to force record prices, but I feel the whole rate-setting of records, and in particular Disco is too much based on America. Euro-Disco is somewhat sniffed upon, but ask any person for a Top 3 Disco songs, and you'll find 2 out of them to be European.

Just my 2 cents.

oil_viber wrote:

i just found Michel Legrand "Disco magic concord" LP
it's a little cheesy as the songs in there are mostly well known film themes but the disco reinterpretation make this album a definite "must have"
http://www.discogs.com/release/1281673
i noticed the canadian version is sought after by a few members while the european pressing wasn't even in the database...the word "you're never prophet in your own land" applies here i guess.

proffit wrote:

Unknown Euro disco is cheap mainly due to fact that very few people know about those, usually don't care about them and lastly, little unknown releases are not featured in mixes, which always pumps the prices up and raises their "cult" status. Italo is a perfect example.

Let's not forget however, that european sound had a really big influece in the U.S. in the 70's, and vice versa. The most obvious "rise in price" is in italo disco, that was for freaks only for many years.
There are still many old great disco tunes from Spain, Greece, Holland, France, Italy and smaller countries that many people don't know about, and they're usually cheap.

I personally think that the more classy 70's U.S. disco productions are better made song-wise, they work better because they're better songs than many european disco songs. Think of "Love Hangover" compared to some obscure euro disco 12", that might have the neat sounds and sexy attitude, but it lacks the song, it doesn't hold together.
For my taste most of the euro disco stuff from the 70s has too much orchestral maneuvers (think of boring Costandinos copycats) and pompous "disco" attitude, but they lack a decent song. Not that all U.S. productions were great either, there are tons of sh*t there of course.

I think that when euro disco took synths as part of the sound, it found it's own unique and highly influential voice, it became its own true style. From Moroder to minimal wave to italo disco to house to techno etc.

gmos wrote:

hey, DyscoSouljah , maybe you should share your knowledge and make us a mix of your favourite underrated euro disco tunes?

downtown.music wrote:

http://www.discogs.com/release/325972

I HATE sharing my "secret weapons", but here goes:

The cat's out of the bag on this on, or so it seems by how few copies are out there for sale...

For the dancefloor, side 2 is the shit, IMHO, starting with track 2 through the end,
but the whole thing is great from a concept and musical point of view.