![]() Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79. “Disco Madness: Walter Gibbons and the Legacy of Turntablism and Remixology”, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2008. I've written quite extensively about Walter-see the articles listed below-and plan to write more in the future when I've had the chance to complete further interviews.īrewster, Bill. ![]() Walter's increasingly strident religious convictions led him to marginalise himself from the dance scene towards the end of the 1970s but that didn't stop him from releasing one of the most innovative mixes of the 1980s-Strafe's "Set It Off". ![]() I started to dig deep into Walter's contribution during research for Love Saves the Day and ended up positioning him as one of the key figures in the book thanks to his groundbreaking DJing style (which saw him innovative the technique of mixing between the breaks) and remixes (he edited the first commercial 12" single, "Ten Percent", and was the first DJ to manipulate the multitrack tapes on his mix of "Hit and Run"). All were shy, Walter perhaps most of all, yet were also remarkably articulate when they communicated through music. Walter Gibbons, David Mancuso and Arthur Russell-these are the three innovators from the downtown dance scene of the 1970s that I've been drawn to repeatedly while researching the culture. ![]()
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