Nile Rogers recently spoke about being more popular now that he is 60 than when Chic were at their height... But it seems he is not the only Disco Inferno to not be laying dormant.
Daft Punk might have had number one success with a Nile Rodgers collaborated disco belter but The JBZ tell Music News that there is a whole lot of D-I-S-C-O that never went away. In fact, it has been bedhopping somewhere in a downtown discotheque for the last few years, smelting the legendary grooves of John Altman, Sugarhill Gang, Junior Giscombe, Jocelyn Brown, Leo Sayer and KC and the Sunshine Band together - as these disco luminaries have been plotting a revival of all things sequin and Studio 54 for a long time.
To create their album -titled iDisco - these epic names turned to tricks way modern! First of all they roped in collaborators from chart toppers such as Basement Jaxx, Brand New Heavies, Alabama 3 and Bimbo Jones to create one mind-blowing album.
Not only did they choose to fuse sounds with current artists to create a unique production disco fondue but apparently they also swapped stems and ideas via twitter on this incredible concept album project!
Music News was lucky enough to catch up with album producer/Svengali Marc JB (one half of Bimbo Jones) who incidentally just celebrated his 77th number 1 remix (!) who filled us in on The JBZ project 'For the last two years Marc JB and Simon Bartholomew (Brand New Heavies, Simon is the British counterpart to Nile Rogers) have been working pure magic on a new future disco project called JBZ, the boys combined forces after meeting through singer Rita Campbell, they quickly realised that they both loved making disco and knew the artists to collaborate and put together an album that would put disco back on the map. Using production techniques never used before, they have combined sampled beats with live hats and percussion from original Jamiroqui drummer Nick Van Gelder and have cut tunes with legends such as Jocelyn Brown, KC and the Sunshine Band, Junior Giscombe, Kenny Thomas, Omar, Rita Campbell, Leo Sayer, the girls from Basement Jaxx and amazingly the guys from the Sugar Hill Gang, now called Rappers Delight.'
For more information about this incredible collaboration go to www.marcjb.com
