D.C. LaRue - The Best Of (Let Them Dance) (1994)

From 1976 thru 1980, when disco was king, the music of D.C. LaRue rules the underground and avant garde dance floors of the world. With #1 hits like "Cathedrals", "Let Them Dance" & "Hot Jungle Drums and Voodoo Rhythm", he was a major creative force behind a movement that evolved into pop/dance music of the 80s and 90s.
Making one's mark as a spokesman for any genre on the first try is not easy but his premiere recoding "Cathedrals" was such a hit that it prompted Cashbox Magazine's Aaron Fuchs to rave, "Cathedrals" is to disco what 'Blue Suede Shoes' is to rock halls. By mid-1976, "Cathedrals" had become a top ten dance record throughout the world. D.C. was the first white male to ever hold the #1 R&B/Soul chart position in England. It was the first commercially available 12" disco single in the USA and the only 12" single vere to be charted on Billboard Magazine's Top 100 singles before or since. And this was just the beginning in a string of musical firsts!
About the extended break on the 12" remix of "Indescreet" (until now unavailable commercially), rapper Grandmaster Flash is quoted saying, "it was the first Hip Hop break I heard... the start of all the Hip Hop and Rap to come". That was 1976.
"Let Them Dance", released in 1978, was the beginning of D.C.'s succesful quest to start changing album cuts into dadically different re-mixed 12" dance singles. Thus, the 1980 12" remix release of "So Much For L.A.", from the album "Star, Baby", saw the LaRue remix envolve into a 12" with different lyrics, new arrangements, erased tracks, looping, sampling and the beginning of the consumate "cut and paste recording". Needless to say, it was nothing like the original LP cut!
And now, with genuine world-wide re-interest in the disco music of the 70s, it appears that D.C. LaRue's time has come again. His music continues to live on. With each new re-issue of one of his dance classics, his enduring legion of fans are being joined by a whole new generation who are finding his work, not only the perfect reflection of an era gone by, but an example of an art that is even more relevant today. The editors of G.Q. Magazine voted LaRue one of the 6 creative artists who would epitomize "success in the decade ahead". Well, so be it. Enjoy this, his first 12" remix collection and... dance on!
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