![]() ![]() In retrospect, the producer/singer/song writer is one of the most important figures to emerge from the original late Seventies disco explosion a talent on par with Arthur Russell or Brian Eno, an auteur who left his imprint on everything he touched, and who figures greatly in the mixture of music Larry Levan played at the Paradise Garage. My late interest in disco led me to a re-appraisal of Darnell and his prodigious output. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, based on its’ reputation, but the record sat in a little-used section of my vinyl collection reserved for ‘bastards’. And I had acquired the classic debut album by Dr. I was familiar with August Darnell, having bought “I’m A Wonderful Thing” when it came out in 1983, as well as “Contort Yourself”, the 1978 no-wave hit by James White & The Blacks which Darnell remixed into a dance hit. It continues to be a source of interest bordering on obsession to many, the present writer included. It was the convergence of every cultural and artistic current in one geographic locality the cultural melting-pot out of which emerged disco, punk/new wave and hip-hop and the style that later congealed into house. ![]() New York in the late Seventies and early Eighties was a place the likes of which the post-internet world may never see again. ![]()
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