I made a big playlist of music David Mancuso played at The Loft; his underground dance parties. Most the tracks come from the couple of playlists printed in Love Saves the Day but also from track listings for a couple of compilations for The Loft (still too rich for me) that came out in 1999 and 2000. Primary source samples of Disco music:
"Walk On Air" (Sun & Moon Mix), Holy Ghost Inc (1990): Post-disco Mancuso still has his touch. Chill out gentle beats work up to something compulsively danceable, trance-y, trippy vocal loops and funky flow. Brilliant example of his warm-up/cool-down music.
"My Love is Free," Double Exposure (1976): Top disco group from Philadelphia. Their biggest hit was "Ten Percent" but Mancuso loves those love-is-the-message songs, and this one is a big gay liberation shout in 1976: "My love is free, my love is free, my love is free, free, free," etc. Also sports a textbook classic era disco bridge-- a la Sly Stone's "Dance to the Music" with strings-- everything dropping out of the mix and added back slowly, one by one, tension building to wild waves of dancing crescendoes that rise and fall forever.
"As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls," Pat Matheny & Lyle Mays (1981): Definitely end-of-night cool-down number and Mancuso's kind of "left field" and an inspired jazzy soundtrack fantasia, moody, swirling, breathy, probing for maybe 15 minutes and then a radiating ambient exhalation for the last five minutes. As if to say, you may rest now.
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