I know some of those songs, but not all.^^
Love me some good disco.
Indeed, Afterlife; I'm a sucker for the genre, too, and I have a bunch of LPs and 12-inch singles from this era, namely from when I was a mobile DJ...
This
Night at Studio 54 project was always a boyhood favorite of mine, and I can remember listening to the eight-track cassette of it -- I don't, for the LIFE of me, recall when or how we acquired it -- at one of my dad's furniture stores when I was a kid. All these years later, listening to it as an adult, I am overwhelmed by some of the poor mixing done on the tracks by two DJs who worked at the actual club and who engineered this two-LP set; I mean, some of the mixes are just downright ODD or bad, with one song just thrown into another in the middle of a verse.
This compilation was supposed to be a "live capture" of an actual night at the club, so you're hearing what the crowd heard that evening -- it ended up being that this was merely a recording of songs you'd "likely hear" at the club if you went there around that time (79 or so). It was also supposed to feature crowd sounds in the background, as if you were right there on the dance floor with all those freaks, but they supposedly couldn't get the sound right, so they eliminated the crowd -- as it stands, the two records include these disco stormers of the time, segued into one another, DJ-style, though, as I mentioned, many of them come off as poor excuses for a "mix."
