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✨ Kid Creole: The Strange, Stylish Genius Behind “I’m a Wonderful Thing, Baby” ✨

🌎💃 "Que Tal America", The Latin Disco Hit Born in Brussels, Not Rio, and the Belgian "Trio" Called Two Man Sound

⚡️High Energy: How Evelyn Thomas & Ian Levine Created the Anthem That Defined Hi-NRG — Without Fully Being Hi-NRG Themselves (Part 2)

⚡️High Energy: Evelyn Thomas, Ian Levine & the Birth of Hi-NRG — Part 1

The Sunshine Blogger Awards

🎤💫 When Babs Stepped Onto the Dancefloor: The Untold Story of The Main Event

💿🕺 Pop Goes 12-Inch: Why Wax Extended Their Songs for the Dancefloor (Even Though They Never Joined the Party)

🎸🇬🇧🇺🇸 Two Hitmakers, One Transatlantic Idea: How Graham Gouldman & Andrew Gold Built Wax Between Burbank and Manchester

🌤️ Could Heaven Ever Be Like This? Idris Muhammad and the Groove Between Jazz, Funk, and Disco

💋 “In Private”: How Dusty Springfield Found Herself Again (with a Little Help from the Pet Shop Boys)

🇧🇷 From Paris to Philly: How “Brazil” by The Ritchie Family Set Disco on🔥and 🇫🇷 on It's Way to Become a Disco Powerhouse

🚗💋 Grace Jones – Pull Up to the Bumper: How a Jamaican Rebel Rewired the Dancefloor

💫 From Goddess to Disco Queen: How Cher Took Us Home

🎭 Casablanca Records: The Odd, the Obscure, and the Overlooked - Bonus Episode

💿 When Miami Met the Machines: The Story of Company B’s “Fascinated”

Casablanca Records: Neil Bogart’s Rollercoaster Ride Through Disco’s Golden Age Part 4

💃 Linda Clifford’s Disco Spark: If My Friends Could See Me Now

Casablanca Records: Neil Bogart’s Rollercoaster Ride Through Disco’s Golden Age Part 3

🕯️ Temple of Love: How the Sisters of Mercy Brought Gothic Shadows to the Dancefloor

Casablanca Records: Rise, Crash, and Why It Still Matters (the full arc, 1973–early 80s) Part 2

🎌 Synth Samurai: How Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Firecracker Lit the Fuse for Global Electronic Dance

Casablanca Records: Neil Bogart Before the Label (the groundwork for disco’s biggest story) Part 1

💃 From Dr. Beat to Conga - Gloria Estefan’s Breakthrough and Latin Pop’s Future (Part 2)

🥁 Conga History – How Gloria Estefan Took a Cuban Rhythm to the 1985 Pop Charts (Part 1)

🎶 Kiss, Disco, and the Song That Divided Fans (Part 2)

🎸 Kiss, Disco, and the Night Rock Went Dancing (Part 1)

🎉 One Hundred Episodes In: A Living History of Dance Music

🤑🎭A Con Artist or a Prescient Genius? Waltz Darling & Deep in Vogue: Malcolm McLaren’s Ballroom (Voguing) Experiment

🌴 From Ballads to the Copa: Barry Manilow’s Unlikely Disco Moment

🎹 Groove and Innovation: How "Just Be Good To Me" and the S.O.S. Band Helped Shape Synth-Funk

From Hiatus to Hit: Roxy Music’s “Dance Away” and Its Mysterious (Disco) Legacy

🇲🇨When a (Real) Princess Became a (Real) Pop Star: The Story of Stéphanie (of Monaco)'s “Ouragan”

🎙️ From X-Rated to Extended Play: The Wild Disco Ride of Andrea True and “More, More, More”

A Delightful Revolution: How Deee-Lite’s ‘Groove Is in the Heart’ Turned Sampling, Style, and Club Culture Inside Out.

Orgasmic Strings and Eurodisco Beats: How Love in C Minor and Cerrone Rewired the Dancefloor

🎧 Punk Meets the Dancefloor: How "Spellbound" Took Siouxsie An The Banshees into Clubland

💃 Charo, Salsoul & the Disco That Shouldn’t Have Worked (But Did)

🎧 “She Bop” & Cyndi Lauper: How one neon-haired "Misfit" shook up 1984 with a Beat, a Wink, and a Song about Masturbation.

🕴️ How the Mob Got Mixed Up with Disco: The Rise and Fall of Jacques Fred Petrus, the man behind Change and "A Lover's Holiday"

Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam": How Belgium Shocked the World With a Dancefloor Classic

📀 Forgotten Disco Anthem: Zulema’s “Change” and the Missed Revolution of 1977

Dancefloor Rescues and Vinyl Legends: How Indeep's "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" Helped Build DJ Culture

🎤 Sylvester and How ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’ Birthed the San Francisco Sound and Redefined Dancefloor Freedom

From Jersey to Global: How ‘I Like To Move It’ Dragged U.S. Dance Music & Erick Morillo Into the Spotlight (Whether It/He Was Ready or Not)

Disco History: How Poussez! and Alphonse Mouzon Turned Jazz Fusion into Dancefloor Gold

Addicted to the Groove: How Robert Palmer Fell in Love with Dance Music (and Made You Dance Too)

KC and the Sunshine Band’s Rise and Fall: How They Shaped Disco Without Riding the Wave.

Discover The Album Cover : Barbara Markay

Dirty Back Road: How the B-52’s Took a Detour from Athens to New York and Rewired the Sound of the ‘80s

How “Jack to the Sound of the Underground” Sparked Dutch DJ Culture and helped to Change Dance Music

Discover The Album Cover : (My love letter to) Santa Esmeralda 🤓

A Taste Of Honey and How "Boogie Oogie Oogie" Saved a Major Record Label from Missing the Disco Boom (completely)

"One Way Love": The Rise of Latin Freestyle: How TKA Ruled the Clubs but Missed the Charts

Discover The Album Cover : The Nick Straker Band

Dance With Me: How Peter Brown’s 1977 Disco Classic Captured the Moment Just Before Saturday Night Fever Blew It All Up

Ultravox's "Sleepwalk": How German Krautrock Shaped a Synth-Pop Revolution and the Eighties dance music.

Spacer: The Chic-Produced Hit That Liberated Sheila—But Missed Its Moment

The Untold Story of Hip Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop) – How Man Parrish Created a Classic and Lost Everything

“Everlasting Love”: The Lost Queen of Eurodance: How Sandra Ruled Europe but Missed the U.S. (and UK)

Discover The Album Cover : Gilla

“Never Can Say Goodbye” by Gloria Gaynor: The Song That Took Disco from Underground to Iconic (and Invented the 12-Inch Record along the way)

How a NYC Bilingual Latin Groove Shaped the Dance Floors in Europe but not in the US: The Story of Coati Mundi’s 'Que Pasa/Me No Pop I'

Discover The Album Cover : Chrisland

Crucified: The Outrageous Rise of Army of Lovers and the Song That Shocked (Just a Little Bit)

Disco Elton? Yes, it happened. Dive into the untold story of Elton John’s forgotten disco album Victim of Love

Discover The Album Cover : Southern Exposure

Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately" : a coming of age story packaged in a groundbreaking song