Remembering the Glory
The World's Most Sophisticated Radio Show
pays tribute to the artform that, by purposeful design, is
the most specific form of music ever devised. The only form of music in all
history not the accidental product of street performers and novice musicians,
disco was borne of the profound
understanding by astute academicians and premier symphony orchestra
conductors of the psychology of music and the power of music arrangements.
The identifiable and distinguishing property of disco
is not any one or subgrouping of its
elements - heartpounding beat and profusive percussions, exquisite vocals
and vocal arrangements, plush rhythm and lush woodwind arrangements,
intricate and lofty horn and string arrangements - but its
supremely-polished and ultra-refined symphony-orchestra sound of the whole,
enshrining a philosophy, an ideal. The design of each masterpiece of the
genre was highly-calculated and -determined, tailored and fashioned from
writing, to arranging, to producing, to mixing until and only until
the desired artistic, psychological, and philosophical masterpiece was
achieved. For the first and only time in history - January 1, 1974 to
December 31, 1979, the Disco Era - endowed unto humanity was a new concept -
designer music, whose grand symphony-orchestra sound makes disco
the supernova light of intellectual creativity in the
vacuous sky of music history.
The World's Most Sophisticated Radio Show
pays tribute to the artform that possessed the universal influence to reverse
the accelerated downward intellectual and cultural trend of this society since
the end of the second world war by imbuing this culture with a longlost drive
for intelligence and elegance: The one form of music in all of human history
that by its very definition is a not a product of the streets but an artform
borne of the profound understanding of the psychology of music and the power
of music arrangements by arrangers, producers, and orchestra conductors who
contracted concertmasters (a term appearing in popular-music lexicon
in 1974 and disappearing by the end of 1979, defining the beginning and end
of the Disco Era), who embellished beautiful melodies
with the interplay of intricate and elaborate symphony-orchestral arrangements
(masterfully imitating the harmonious relationship of all components in a
society that for the first time in its history celebrated cultural diversity)
for the sole purpose of elating the sensibilities of the artform's connoisseurs
into ecstasy, through indulging in the disco mix, at the time, a newly-coined
term denoting the
extensive and immense builds and breaks designed to bestow
upon appreciators a natural-high, at the time, another newly-coined
term that in its very philosophy assaulted the basis of the drug-infested
1960s, whose "music" demanded the use of powerful mood-altering devices in
order to tolerate the punishment of listening.
The World's Most Sophisticated Radio Show
pays tribute to the artform that revolutionized the way members of this
society socialized by driving into extinction the dirty, dingy 1950s and 1960s
bar and roller-rink by blossoming into designer-inspired splendor the
discotheque and rollerdisco where for the first time in history people of all
ages, ethnic origins, and sexual orientations could look forward to attending
with dignity, demanding, moreover, a complete overhaul in clothing design,
invigorating the industry with a never-before-experienced creative energy,
transforming into sophistication base, gaudy 1950s and 1960s polyester attire
into designer suits and gowns of silk evocative of the art-deco period, and,
by its majesty and glamor, even ennobled the mangy, rebellion-inspired 1950s
and 1960s dungarees and bell-bottom jeans into what became the most
sought-after fabric ever to be woven - designer jeans - creating a mood that
motivated for the first time in three decades teenagers to dress up, and,
with aspiration to become king and queen of the dance-floor,
artfully execute intricate dance-steps
reminiscent of the 1920s and 1930s infused with graceful gymnastics as a
release of tension in a society that had come to accept, thanks to the
classless, intelligence-deprived 1950s and 1960s, gang warfare as a cultural
benefaction, launching into vogue to this day the worldwide consciousness of
health fitness and aerobic exercise, all of which propelling such a momentum
for perfection that to mix 64 tracks of single elements of symphony-orchestral
arrangements down to one finished masterpiece of recording technology was
standard, whose album covers and disco-single covers, enshrouding the absolute
pinnacle of recording technology within, elevated to the apex even techniques in
photography and lithography unrivaled to this day.
The World's Most Sophisticated Radio Show
pays tribute to the artform that even continues to nullify the effects of
mentally-retarded cancerous critics who, suffering from the severest of
inferiority complexes due to their base mental-retardation,
find their abilities, their standards, their conventions, and their very beings
bottom-rate. To these lowest-level mentalities, our artform, then, becomes
the symbol of the realization of their inferiority, and, fueled by crazed
obsession in manner befitting their lowly character, they shamelessly persist
to destroy that which calls attention to their wanton ineptitude and depravity,
even if to rewrite history. So, where is the multitude of people who lived
through this timeperiod - the designers and filmmakers and television directors
and music arrangers and music producers and audio engineers and orchestra
conductors and musicians of the city symphony and philharmonic orchestras of
New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit, Atlanta, Memphis,
San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto, Munich, Berlin, London, Paris, and
others - who by the authority of experience, knowledge, and intelligence
could use the power of their influence to avert this
rewriting of history? Considering that control of what is now left of this
civilization and its media is in the hands of undeveloped lifeforms whose
greatest rush of sentiment is experienced through the hurting and destroying
of others, one should find no wonder in the fact that throughout history the
intellectual and artistic elite are suppressed by sheer warrior aggression of
the classless braindead. Yet, whether or not the sublime symbolism of our
artform extinguishes to a faint glimmer and emotional attachments are severed,
logical and rational analysis deduces now and forever that, if the measure of
greatness of an artform is based on the extent to which the artform moves and
manipulates the mind, senses, and spirit of the audience and the artists'
innovative capacity to push beyond the extreme the boundaries of the medium
to completely redefine the medium, generating no less than a cultural
phenomenon, disco will go down in history as humanity's greatest intellectual
and artistic triumph.
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