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Post-disco (sometimes called club music or dance) refers to a disco music movement characterized by the heavy use of keyboard instruments, and more specifically, to a historically significant period in popular music history beginning with the commercial death of disco music in the late 1970s and ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in late 1980s.
The stripped-down musical trends followed from the DJ- and producer-driven, increasingly electronic and experimental side of disco, and were typified by the styles of dance-pop,boogie,italo disco and the early alternative dance.
Techno and house music are both rooted in post-disco.
Unlike disco music, post-disco usually lacked the typical shuffling hi-hat driven beat, walking basslines and/or string orchestration; it more featured drum machines, synthesizers, sequencers and 4/4 time signature commonly found in rock and pop music. Soulful female vocals, however, remained a part of post-disco. The main force in post-disco were mainly one-hit wonders and short-lived collaborations, while record producers played a significant role in post-disco in general. The music that mostly catered to dance and urban audiences later managed to influence more popular and mainstream acts like Madonna, New Order or Pet Shop Boys.
HQ Post Disco-Urban - Let's Do It - Kadenza - 1982
HQ Post-Disco - George Duke - Reach Out - 1983
ANNi 80 MiX POST-DiSCO (Madonna, Hall & Oates, Indeep, Captain Sensible ...)
HQ Post Disco-Urban - Rescue Me - A Taste of Honey - 1980
HQ Post Disco-Urban - Lovin' Fever - Con Funk Shun - 1983
HQ Post Disco-Japanese-Urban - 初恋 [Hatsu Koi]/First Love - Toshiki Kadomatsu - 1986
HQ Post-Disco - History [12" Extended Mix] - Mai Tai - 1985
Post-disco/Electro-funk chart [2016] Early summer
Post-Disco/Electro-funk [2015] Spring/Early summer billboard
HQ Post-Disco - Love Fever [12" Version] - Gayle Adams - 1982