The Twelve Inch #206 - The B-Side : Beats, Acapella & Dub: Soul to R&B, Quiet Storm Origins & The Isley Brothers Deep Dive 🔒
The Twelve Inch 206 : It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop) (Isley Brothers)
Welcome to the B-side.
This is where things get a little closer to the source.
The parts of the story that don’t always make it into the main piece. The details behind the sound. The personal notes. And the versions that really tell you how a track worked on the dancefloor.
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This week, we stay with The Isley Brothers and It’s A Disco Night.
Because this is one of those records where the closer you listen… the more interesting it becomes.
If you missed the A-Side story, you can read it here. 👇
Or The video version :
🥁 Mix 1 — The Beats
🔥 Soul to R&B, When Did the Name Change… and Why?
🎧 A Simple Question That Isn’t So Simple
One of the questions I always find myself asking while researching these posts is this:
👉 When did “soul” stop being called soul… and become R&B?
It sounds like a small detail. Almost trivial. But once you start pulling that thread, you realise it opens up a much bigger story. And you know by now:
The Twelve Inch is the story of how dance music kept reinventing itself, often by accident.
📻 Early Positioning, The World I Grew Up In
When I was growing up and discovering my love for Black music, it was simply called soul. In the A-side, I mentioned my favorite radio show, the Soul Show. A hugely popular weekly two-hour show on Dutch radio, hosted by one of the country’s biggest DJs, entirely dedicated to Black music.
