VA - Alright! Black American Dance Music From The Disco Era (2001)

So this album means a lot to me. Well I mixed one of the tracks - the first time I've ever got into any of that sort of thing. So of course you'll all go out and buy it.... Well perhaps not - let's give you some hard facts instead. This is BGP's look at what happened to black American music in the late 70s, a period that the whole world once looked back on with the kind of embarrassment reserved for when your mother wants to show your baby pictures to your girlfriend (or possibly anyone you know). But recently there has been a re-appraisal, and don't you just know it, there was a hell of a lot of good stuff just waiting for re-discovery. Of course we knew that all the time but just lied and called the music by other names. It worked for a while, but it sure feels good to be able to go beyond that and acknowledge, as so many do now, the legacy of New York's legendary 70s club scene and the DJs that helped create it.