The term post-disco is a referral to the early to late 1980s era movement of disco music into more stripped-down electronic funk influenced sounds; post-disco was also predecessor to house music.
This chronological list contains examples of artists, songs and albums described as post-disco, as well as its subgenre, boogie.
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Some artists: A B C D E F G I J K L M N O P R S U W Y Z Some songs: 1970s & 1980s • 2000s • 2010s Some albums |
Year | Artist | Song | Label |
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2001 | Missy Elliott | "Old School Joint"[86] | The Goldmind / Elektra |
2002 | Beyoncé | "Work It Out"[87][88] | Columbia |
The Chemical Brothers | "Star Guitar"[89] | Freestyle Dust (UK) / Astralwerks (US) | |
2004 | The Pharcyde | "Illusions"[90] | Chapter One Entertainment |
2008 | Black Devil Disco Club | "With Honey Cream"[91] | Lo |
Hercules and Love Affair | "Blind"[92] | DFA | |
J*Davey | "Slooow"[93] | Interdependent Media | |
2009 | Dâm-Funk | "Candy Dancin'"[94] | Stones Throw |
Year | Artist | Song | Label |
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2010 | The Golden Filter | "Hide Me"[95] | Brille |
Tensnake | "Need Your Lovin'"[96] | Permanent Vacation | |
2012 | Prince Rama | "Those Who Live for Love Will Live Forever"[97] | Paw Tracks |
2013 | Beyoncé | "Blow"[98] | Parkwood / Columbia |
Ty Segall | "Music From a Film 1"[99] | Famous Class | |
2014 | The Growlers | "Chinese Fountain"[100] | Everloving (US) / Fat Cat (UK) |
Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake | "Love Never Felt So Good"[101] | Epic | |
Prince | "Art Official Age"[102] | NPG / Warner Bros. | |
2017 | Lorde | "Green Light"[103] | Universal New Zealand |
2022 | Calvin Harris With Dua Lipa | "Potion"[104] | Sony |
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SOLAR (...), which grew out of an association between promoter Griffey and Soul Train host Don Cornelius, released a string of post-disco hits that included Shalamar's "The Second Time Around" and the Whispers' "And the Beat Goes On."
However, Light Up the Night is all really about its lead single, Stomp, a truly irresistible piece of post-disco groove.
The graceful post-disco of the Brothers Johnson's "Stomp!"
Founded in 1977 in Atlanta, the band (...) was initially known for the post-disco hit "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" in 1979.
The track reminded him of "this really brief post-disco genre of roller-skating music that existed for two months in 1980, records like Vaughan Mason's 'Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll.'
individual records like Vaughan Mason's "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" which helped establish a new ambience in East Coast post-disco.
This post-disco pop funk epic is centered on a relentless, repeating bassline that really does make you want to, uh, groove.
the stripped-down post-disco of club records like Taana Gardner's "Heartbeat"
Taana Gardner's "Heartbeat" (one of the sexiest, sweetest, slowest post-disco singles)
The Pointer Sisters (...) really found their niche in the post-disco world, recording smooth tunes like "Slow Hand" and dance floor fillers such as "I'm So Excited."
The surprising twist is the use of instantly recognizable keyboard samples from the Tom Tom Club's post-disco classic "Genius of Love."
"Hold On, We're Going Home" (...) has drawn logical comparison to Gaye's bubbling post-disco smash "Sexual Healing".
"Should Have Been You," which helped establish Guthrie as one of the premier club music performers during the post-disco era.
the post-disco classic "Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life" by early-'80s New York crew Indeep
A cover of Indeep's 1982 post-disco classic "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" personifies Carey's ambition like no other song she's ever recorded
That song, that example of post-disco electro-funk, we mused, is so October 1982 it's not true.
Patrice Rushen's postdisco classic Forget Me Nots
Sinnamon's underheard "Thanks to You" (a sparkling post-disco club cut with defiant vocals reminiscent of Teena Marie).
Written by Kay Gee and the girls, "Hey Mr. DJ" was based on R&B singer Michael Wycoff's "Looking Up to You," a post-disco boogie groove from 1982.
the soulful boogie songs "Get It Right" by Aretha Franklin and "Save the Overtime for Me" by Gladys Knight and the Pips
The first single from the album is "Someday (We'll All Be Free)," an eye-opening cover of the Gap Band's boogie classic
the song 'Billie Jean', presents rhythm and blues in a post-disco dance form.
the scope of KC's work into the 80s with post-disco singles such "Give It Up."
There are also tracks to represent the rise of post-disco club/dance trend, such as Laid Back's "White Horse", New Edition's "Cool It Now", and Timex Social Club's " Rumors".
Vocalist with several post-disco club classics to her credit, including the chart-topping "Let the Music Play."
Shannon's "Let the Music Play" was an dark, understated and round-the-bend corny post-disco dance floor monster of congas, squelching keytars and deep diva delight.
"She Works Hard for the Money" was one of Summer's first post-disco hits and it quickly became a feminist anthem.
Donna Summer's big post-disco hit "She Works Hard For the Money"
Brown (...) is best known for her 1983 anthem "Somebody Else's Guy" which was a great example of quality post-Disco dance music emanating out of New York City.
the classic post-disco jam "Caribbean Queen"
Almodovar's film takes its title from The Pointer Sisters' post-disco classic
such post-disco rock tracks as Supernatural Love and There Goes My Baby
The title cut is basic and gripping post-disco worthy of a Donna Summer.
The opening drum track on the album immediately stamps its post-disco footprint, calling into consideration the widely used 808 drum machine of techno's early history. That track, "With Honey Cream", gurgles with swirling LFO and falsetto, but its modern instrumentation remains ideologically retro-futurist.
The quirky post-disco track was getting dropped at parties all weekend, even at the more mainstream events.
Tensnake's own "Need Your Lovin'" is a love-letter to 80s post-disco R&B that appears on the first disc
Opener "Art Official Cage" cribs directly from Daft Punk's more arena-ready moments, building a post-disco banger on some Nile Rodgers-style rhythm guitar.
James wrote, produced, and performed on Wild and Peaceful, which positively reeked of post-disco strings and syndrums.
This is definitive postdisco black rock: gleeful funk shot through with punk momentum and shaped by Motown elegance.
Her self-titled debut balances post-disco club music with the extension of '70s soul that many referred to as urban during the '80s.
the lustrous post-disco sound of Thriller seems an unlikely muse for Stump and his bandmates
Madonna's first album (...) sits happily alongside the post disco crème de la crème: the same year's Evelyn 'Champagne' King album Get Loose
David Bowie's 15th album was a stylish, synthesised post-disco dance record, equally informed by classic soul and the emerging subgenre of new wave.
With Break Out, The Pointer Sisters brought their steamy postdisco glitz to perfection.
With producer Michael Omartian, Summer moved back into post-disco dance music and urban R&B with 1983's She Works Hard for the Money
While "Darkdancer" is steeped in British synth-pop sensibilities, it doesn't ignore the burgeoning post-disco/electro-pop scene of New York in the early '80s.
Only Madonna has created greater and more consistent postdisco pop perfection.
Like most quality DFA full-lengths, this album has post-disco dance-pop aesthetics intersecting and merging in ways that transcend cheap retro; too much of it leaves you wondering if it could've gone even further with a bit more breathing room.
The Boogie Back, which focused on late-'70s and early-'80s post-disco.
With the release of their first proper self-titled full length, they [Holy Ghost!] contribute to growing post-disco fads with tracks that are chock full of soulful harmonies, backed with an unrestrained supply of drum machines, vintage keyboards, and bubbling synthesizers.
Stylistically, the bulk of this material can be classified as post-disco and pre-house.
Keep Moving is just perfect, like Aaliyah being haunted by the ghost of Sharon Redd, Sharon Brown or Vicky D – one of those postdisco girls – on the Prelude label in 1982.
Unlimited Touch (...) weren't disco, and they weren't exactly straight-up R&B; like their Prelude labelmates D Train, Unlimited Touch combined the two forms into what is often referred to as post-disco.
post-disco funk-n-soul bands like Lakeside, Midnight Star and The Deele
the post-disco DIY sound of ESG
the U.K.-rooted John is best known to dance enthusiasts as the leader of famed post-disco trio Imagination
If Michael were smart he might make a similar move now, returning to his classic postdisco sound—lord knows Justin Timberlake has had success putting his own Off the Wallisms on the charts.
Her initial post-disco albums with reggae producers Sly & Robbie are the high points, with the Trevor Horn-helmed Slave to the Rhythm (1985) also of note.
the post-disco camp of Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Before Murphy's timeslot began though, '80s post-disco group Liquid Liquid had their shot to get the crowd going.
The seminal post-disco band Liquid Liquid is set to open the show
The undisputed heroes of Offset 2010 were New York post-disco troupe, Liquid Liquid
Both her post-disco music and defiant strut suggest a child's parody of grown-up posturing.
[Neil] Tennant popped off one day to interview an up and coming post-disco club kid, yup, Madonna.
In 1999, Geist and fellow producer Darshan Jesrani initiated a series of excellent post-disco singles as Metro Area
A talented songwriter and performer with a distinctive, soft voice whose post-disco dance-pop made him a superstar in the 1980s and '90s.
Thanks to brother Foster, Edmund can lay claim to being part of the first family of post-disco dance music. And he doesn't do such a bad job himself.
Since 2012, the label has been headed by the unlikely but somehow perfect Don Was, of the post-disco outfit Was (Not Was), famous for the immortal anthem "Walk the Dinosaur."
George Michael may adapt the music of his post-disco pop act Wham! for a stage production.
John 'Jellybean' Benitez, a native of the Bronx and renowned Manhattan club DJ, made his mark in the early 80s as one of the post-disco dance scene's most favoured remixers/producers.
Larry Levan (...) had an incalculable influence over post-disco dance music
Her brother is violinist and post-disco producer Kelley Polar (aka Mike Kelley).