DJ Andrew M presented episode 02 of his all-vinyl Disco show on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian electronic music radio station, DJ agency, promoter and music-news platform connecting audiences across Asia and internationally.
Andrew began his career by hosting Hip Hop radio programmes across Australia during the 1980s and 1990s. He has also managed a range of club residencies in Australia.
He had returned from a series of private gatherings in the US, Canada and Europe. At the time of publication, he was travelling for private events in India, Dubai and Johannesburg, while also exploring records and playing vinyl gigs as a selector.
With a foundation in funk and Hip Hop, he has broad musical preferences and decades of DJ experience. His collection spans many styles in digital and physical vinyl formats.
Before this programme, Andrew completed performances and private events in Sydney, London and Amsterdam. These followed appearances earlier in 2019 at Mobile Mondays NYC and private events in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston and Toronto.
He shares music in Singapore whenever the opportunity arises. Over the previous ten years, he had played clubs and events including Tanjong Beach Club, Kult, CAD, Artemis, Loof, Zouk, Tippling Club, Choice Cuts and Great Escape, as well as gigs in Indonesia and Thailand.
His performances focus on Disco in both contemporary and traditional forms. This all-vinyl programme uses the 12-inch single format to give extended versions room to play rather than cutting them short for a party set.
DJ Andrew M opens Disco 02 with Linda Clifford’s “Runaway Love,” a late-seventies club record rooted in Disco and R&B. Carol Williams, Gayle Adams and Melba Moore continue that dancefloor direction, keeping the opening section close to the disco and soul sound that dominated American clubs around the turn of the decade.
Tom Browne’s “Funkin’ For Jamaica (N.Y.)” shifts the programme firmly into Funk, with the track historically identified through jazz, R&B and funk rather than house. Denroy Morgan follows with “I’ll Do Anything For You,” bringing a reggae-rooted artist into a record whose 1981 album is also widely associated with R&B and club music.
Times Square and Videeo continue the early-eighties dance music focus before East Coast’s “The Rock” brings in an early Hip Hop and rap connection. That period sits close to the first wave of recorded East Coast rap, when disco and funk records still provided much of the rhythmic framework for new rap releases.
Bull Pursell closes Disco 02 with “Now,” completing a short vinyl set that moves from disco and soul into funk, reggae-influenced dance music and early rap. The programme captures the transition between late-seventies disco and the increasingly varied black dance music styles emerging at the start of the eighties.
DJ Andrew M Disco 02 show
Linda Clifford - Runaway Love
Carol Williams - No-One Can Do It Like You Do (Shep Pettibone remix
Gayle Adams - Love Fever
Melba Moore - You Stepped Into My Life
Tom Browne - Funkin’ For Jamaica (N.Y.)
Denroy Morgan - I’d Do Anything For You
Times Square - You’re Hot (European Version)
Videeo - Closet Freak
East Coast - The Rock
Bull Pursell - Now
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