Helado Negro Makes Latinx Roots Disco

Roberto Carlos Lange. Stage name: Helado Negro. Born in 1980. Raised in South Florida a child of Ecuadoran immigrants. Wikipedia calls his music: Latin, folk, experimental, and electronic. I'm calling it Latinx Roots Disco. He makes soft dreamy electro music with an indelible pastel voice. I'm usually indifferent or hostile to music videos but Helado Negro went to art school and these are sweet and fun or at least interesting to look at. Wallpaper music maybe but well-designed wallpaper music. 

"Outside the Outside." (2021) House party disco. 

"Gemini and Leo." (2021) Psychedelic disco. 

  "Pais Nublado." (2019) After hours disco. 

TGIDF 

"Soft Space," Soft Machine (1978)

More psychedelic disco; or space disco or electro disco, etc. Some hybrid disco form from late-Disco era, 1976-1979. Strobe light synth drums racing neon lit city streets at night. Band from early '70s Canterbury scene, England; better known for jazzy progressive rock.  

 

Hippie rock at The Loft, NYC, underground gay disco, early-1970s

Hippies were the original psychedelic peoples, so some hippie rock as psychedelic disco at The Loft: 

"The Mexican," Babe Ruth (1973): English rock band mocking John Wayne's epic dud The Alamo (1960) for its Cold War bigotry, I think, and virtual B-Boy standard in early Hip-hop era; e.g., Funky 4 + 1, "Feel It (The Mexican)" (1983).

"Glad," Traffic (1970): A little too young for Traffic. I knew Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver better (1980). The piano vamping is familiar ("What'd I Say"?) and undeniably hot. Add on some jazz-rock fanfare and a trippy interlude or two and why not? 

"Listen Here," Brian Auger (1970): Smoking hot proto-Disco and, yes, I'm a total sucker for the Hammond organ sound. But jungle polyrhythms and a fat bass sound on the bottom topped with a greasy mess of funky organ and jazz-rock guitar grooving. Augerization!