Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa that was most popular in the mid to late 1970s, though it has had brief resurgences. Its initial audiences were club-goers from the gay, African American, Italian American,Latino, and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia and then later New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco also was a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Women embraced disco as well, and the music eventually expanded to several other marginalized communities of the time.
The disco sound has soaring vocals over a steady "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or 16th note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line. In most disco tracks, strings, horns, electric pianos, and electric guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers.
Disco (software)
Disco is an application for Mac OS X developed by Austin Sarner, Jasper Hauser and Jason Harris.
The software is an optical disc authoring utility, which allows users to burn CDs and DVDs with multisession support, disc duplication, burning VIDEO_TS folders, disc spanning as well as a searchable disc index, dubbed Discography. Disco also features an interactive "3D smoke" animation which is visible when burning. This smoke responds to microphone input, as well as mouse input, causing perturbations in the smoke effect.
Disco was designed as a low-cost alternative to the popular Mac OS X optical disc authoring application, Roxio Toast.
Since its launch in 2007, Disco was available as shareware, requiring users to purchase a license after burning seven discs with it on a single computer. In July 2011, a free license code to activate the application was published on its official website, effectively making the application available as freeware.
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Disco (film)
Disco is a French film directed by Fabien Onteniente, which was released on 2 April 2008, with Franck Dubosc as "Didier Travolta" in the main role.
The main subject of this movie is the rebirth of disco music at the mid-2000s in a town of France. The film is at first humorous, with a lot of clichés about Saturday Night Fever, but it doesn't disparage the disco culture at any time. In fact, all the people involved in this film are fans of disco, dance and funk music.
The soundtrack to the film contains a cover version of the Bee Gees' "Night Fever" performed by Australian singer and songwriter Tina Arena.
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Estrella
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Estrella (album)
Estrella is the fifth studio album by Lycia, released in 1998 by Projekt Records.
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All lyrics written by Tara Vanflower, except "Tainted", "Dome" and "The Kite" by Mike VanPortfleet, all music composed by Mike VanPortfleet.
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Adapted from the Estrella liner notes.
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Disco, Disco
by: Helge SchneiderIt´s a fantasy. It´s paradise, and all is true! Ich gehe in die Disco, in der Disco ist es schön! Ich gehe in die Disco, hoffentlich lern ich da eine kennen. In der Discothek in meiner Ortschaft, hoffentlich hoffentlich hoffentlich lern ich dort ein schönes Mädchen kennen. Ich freu mich schon den ganzen Tag auf den Discothekenbesuch! Ich steh schon den ganzen Tag vor meinem Kleiderschrank und weiß nicht was ich anziehen soll! Zieh ich die Jeans an?? Oder den Pullover?? Oder geh ich nackt?? Nackend in die Discothek!! Ja ich gehe ich nackt, hoffentlich lassen die mich an der Kasse vorbei und ich bezahle 8 Mark Eintritt. Und ich bekomme einen Zettel wo draufgeschrieben steht: "Hau ab denn du bist nackt!Hau ab denn du bist nackt!"