Disco & Halfway to Discontent

Clinton, ????? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B000046Q18
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #380,741 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. People Power In The Disco Hour

2. Saturday Night & Dancing

3. Buttoned Down Disco

4. Hip-Hop Bricks

5. Electric Ice Cream (Miami Jammies)

6. G.T. Road

7. The Hot For May Sound

8. Sing Hosanna

9. Mr. President

10. Giddian Di Rani

11. Before The Fizz Is Gone

12. Welcome To Tokio, Otis Clay

13. David D. Chambers

14. Fila Brazillia Disco Frisco Mix

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You wont find any discontent here., April 4, 2002

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Roger I. Camara Lemarroy "macacox" (monterrey, nuevo leon Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disco & Halfway to Discontent (Audio CD)

Disco and the halfway to discontent is a great, happy, and filled with good vibes album. I have to admit it has some pretty catchy songs, but there is nothing wrong with that. I applaud the simplicity that all the instruments were managed with, and how well the result turned out. I find myself grooving and dancing everytime i put this record on. It just gets me happy. All tracks are interesting and a pleasure to listen to, especially when you are on the road. This cd is funky enough for me, and i would buy it again if i didnt have it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting AND Danceable. Cool., March 22, 2000

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[e-mail] (swarthmore pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disco & Halfway to Discontent (Audio CD)

Cornershop created one of the most refreshing albums of 1997 with When I Was Born for their Seventh Time and its oft-played single "Brimful of Asha." Now lead singer/scratcher Tjinder Singh and geetarist/tamboura player Ben Ayres have temporarily (I hope) abandoned their drummer, percussionist and sitarist to create another extremely interesting record. This is a sort of reassortment of the principal Cornershop elements - South Asian instruments, summery pop tunes, socially conscious lyrics, turntable experimentalism, and off-kilter funk - with an emphasis on the last few. While there are a number of tunes which would fit right in on the When I Was Born - such as Electric Ice Cream (Miami Jammies), with Tjinder's idiosyncratic, sing-songy voice, and G.T. Road, which is a four minute slab of instrumental Indian dub - this is unquestionably a dance album. The lead track and first single, "People Power in the Disco Hour" gives a good indication of where things are headed. Starting off with a simple hi-hat pattern and a deliciously funky synth-bassline, it becomes an anthem of sorts, a calling-to-arms for all those disaffected disco-dancers out there (?), whose chorus is merely the title repeated four times. This is nothing less than a vindication of disco as a political movement, somewhat along the lines of Bis' recent Social Dancing. This isn't quite the same as the disco you remember from the seventies, however: rather than recycle the same basic groove throughout the entire album, Clinton mixes things up immediately, giving us the harder-hitting "Buttoned-Down Disco," which fuses handclaps, a sample from an old Israeli dance hit, and punchy tenor sax riffage. From there it gets weirder. For example, here's the old-skool funk of "Hip-Hop Bricks," which features a lovable robot musing that "you are like candy to our combinations of pee pee mathematics," the inexplicably grooving "Before the Fizz is Gone," which is nothing more than a vocoder-altered chant laid over the simplest funk beat imaginable, and the mindlessly catchy "Welcome to Tokio, Otis Clay" (whose only words are "oowee-ooh, ooh-ooh.") To say the least (and as if you couldn't tell from the unusual packaging; a red jewel case which makes the ice-blue cover appear to be a murky, burgundian purple), this is not for those who like their dancing to be inflexible, unimaginative and redundant.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funky stuff from Tjinder and Ben.., February 1, 2000

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HHK (Silver Spring, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disco & Halfway to Discontent (Audio CD)

A great funky album dedicated to disco music and disco heat from Cornershop guys Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres.. Certainly recommended.. As in Cornershop albums, more you listen the album, more you like it. My current favorites are "Buttoned Down Disco" and "g.t. road". but it will probably not be same next week. I had bought this in Amsterdam before it was released here in the US, but European release unfortunately does not include the Fila Brazilia remix.. I may have to buy a new CD, I guess.. dont miss this!