The Wagtunes Corner (Featuring My Best Yet)

[Music Bird]

Wags, I like that first disco track, the wah guitar riffs remind me of Brothers Johnson and EWF.

[wagtunes]

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... everywhere

I think I'm gonna dig WagsDisco. Dance it, baby!

The strings arrangement is great! This is going to be a fun album.

I'm not so sure about the snare sound. I would like to hear something closer to a clap.

Hey Frantz. If you listen, there's actually a clap in there along with the snare.

[wagtunes]

Wags, I like that first disco track, the wah guitar riffs remind me of Brothers Johnson and EWF.

The guitar track is triple tracked. I really worked hard on the arrangement for this thing. Disco is a lot tougher to get right than people realize.

Will start working on track 2 shortly.

[Spring Goose]

1st and title track from my upcoming CD "Disco Everywhere"

This song started out to be a total train wreck. In fact, it was so bad that I had to scrap it and start from scratch. I was starting to think that this was just a bad idea all around. Eventually, it started to come together, even going as far as recording a measure at a time to make sure I got everything just right.

Anybody who thinks doing "decent" disco is easy has no clue. This is without a doubt the toughest thing I've ever attempted musically. Comparing it to my other recent tracks, I think it holds up well. But I'll let you be the judge of that. Really curious to know what all you people who wanted to hear me do disco think.

Disco Everywhere

And the lights come on
And the room is jumping all around
All your cares are gone
And you're lifted up by the sound

Dance it
Baby take me
Baby won't you chance it
You know that you can make me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Feel good
In your arms
Baby if you would
Let me feel your charms
Disco there
Disco everywhere

Can't you feel the beat
While I spin you all around the floor
You know it's a treat
And you know that you want some more

Repeat Chorus

Instrumental Break

Repeat Chorus

Outro

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... everywhere

It still remind me of gypsy music, Blur, Morrissey, and this time Dexy's Midnight Runners.

[wagtunes]

1st and title track from my upcoming CD "Disco Everywhere"

This song started out to be a total train wreck. In fact, it was so bad that I had to scrap it and start from scratch. I was starting to think that this was just a bad idea all around. Eventually, it started to come together, even going as far as recording a measure at a time to make sure I got everything just right.

Anybody who thinks doing "decent" disco is easy has no clue. This is without a doubt the toughest thing I've ever attempted musically. Comparing it to my other recent tracks, I think it holds up well. But I'll let you be the judge of that. Really curious to know what all you people who wanted to hear me do disco think.

Disco Everywhere

And the lights come on
And the room is jumping all around
All your cares are gone
And you're lifted up by the sound

Dance it
Baby take me
Baby won't you chance it
You know that you can make me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Feel good
In your arms
Baby if you would
Let me feel your charms
Disco there
Disco everywhere

Can't you feel the beat
While I spin you all around the floor
You know it's a treat
And you know that you want some more

Repeat Chorus

Instrumental Break

Repeat Chorus

Outro

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim ... everywhere

It still remind me of gypsy music, Blur, Morrissey, and this time Dexy's Midnight Runners.

So you're not getting any disco influence out of this at all?

[Spring Goose]

Yes i do: it's Blur, Morrissey, Dexy's, and gypsys, doing disco!

[wagtunes]

Yes i do: it's Blur, Morrissey, Dexy's, and gypsys, doing disco!

Ah, okay. Just curious, did they ever DO disco?

[vurt]

Yes i do: it's Blur, Morrissey, Dexy's, and gypsys, doing disco!

Ah, okay. Just curious, did they ever DO disco?

blurs girls and boys would be as close as they got.

kevin rowland of dexys did do a weird electronic album later on, never heard it, could be discoy?
gypsies some of them probably have.
morissey is a c**t.

[vurt]

very much at the "step kick step" style disco, ala chic, ewf. nowt wrong with that, however we want some from the more sleazy moroder end too

what the hell is wrong with you wags? the one time you could have vocoded the hell out of it and nothing?

only on the phone, so no mix comments, but 4/5 , not bad at all for the first out of the bag

now go listen to some nolan sisters

[wagtunes]

very much at the "step kick step" style disco, ala chic, ewf. nowt wrong with that, however we want some from the more sleazy moroder end too

what the hell is wrong with you wags? the one time you could have vocoded the hell out of it and nothing?

only on the phone, so no mix comments, but 4/5 , not bad at all for the first out of the bag

now go listen to some nolan sisters

Now you see, I am really wrestling with this whole project as far as where to take it.

Do I stick with mid to late 70s Bee Gees, Barry White, Three Degrees non synth based stuff?

Do I venture off into Moroder territory and beyond?

Do I do the "rock band does disco" thing like Queen did with "Another One Bites The Dust" and Pink Floyd did with "Another Brick In The Wall?"

Do I do the 90s hip hop thing with a disco beat?

Do I take a disco beat and do my totally own thing borrowing from traditionally non disco genres like prog, jazz and even, dare I say it, Broadway?

How much continuity do I want to have with this CD? Do I want each song to go together or do I want each one to be as different as possible from each other? The latter being infinitely more difficult.

All of this while trying to sound cliche enough to sound like disco but not too cliche as to sound totally ripped off and unoriginal.

Every riff going through my head right now I find myself going "cliche" and chucking it. Not that the first track was all that original. But I had to start somewhere or I would have never started and this project would have been dead before it ever got off the ground.

Honestly, I'm not sure I can pull this off. Certainly not over the course of 12 to 16 tracks. I'm already struggling just to come up with a 2nd track.

And I thought this was going to be easy.

[vurt]

just have fun with it.
if you end up with a disco duck track, no one dies


go where it leads. you may find something fun.

[jackoo]

first thing that comes to my mind when starting listening to "Disco Everywhere":
- the bass could use some more "legato" transitions. It feels very keyboard-ish...

The overall vibe is nice.

[wagtunes]

first thing that comes to my mind when starting listening to "Disco Everywhere":
- the bass could use some more "legato" transitions. It feels very keyboard-ish...

The overall vibe is nice.

Thanks for the listen and the feedback. I am pretty sure there are quite a few legato passages. I guess they just don't come across.

[Music Bird]

I’d like to see your take on something that Boney M would do.

[wagtunes]

I’d like to see your take on something that Boney M would do.

Boney M had one hit record that I remember. Let me go listen to it.