The Original Disco Man
| James Brown
The Original Disco Man
The Original Disco Man is the 51st studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in July 1979, by Polydor Records. - WIKIPEDIA
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As a Southern disco effort and a Brown album, The Original Disco Man more than gets the job done.
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Robert Christgua
In which Brown relinquishes the profit-taking ego gratification of writing and producing everything himself. Those credits go to Brad Shapiro, Millie Jackson's helpmate, who thank god is no disco man himself. Sure he likes disco tricks--synthesized sound effects, hooky female chorus, bass drum pulse--but he loves what made JB, well, the original disco man: hard-driving, slightly Latinized funk patterns against the rough rap power of that amazing voice, which may have lost expressiveness but definitely retains its sense of rhythm.
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1979 - Brown and producer Brad Shapiro put synthesizers that sound like pinball electronics to good un-clichéd use. Brown, now 51, has earned the title of this album.
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