The prolific and proactively poly-sexual disco roots party Horse Meat Disco’s first official release synthesizes Eurodisco, Boogie and many pre-disco jams to create an all encompassing mix that expertly represents the current state of throwback dance music. The mix begins with a home team edit of the Dusty Springfield track ‘Baby Blue.’ The electronic percussion and sparse bass fit cozily into the realm of cosmic disco, and her vocals eschew disco histrionics for ’80s simplicity. The song is restructured with a marathon break section (naturally), utilizing electronic toms and talking drums that blend creamily into Eddie Drennon’s stomper, “Disco Jam.” Other highlights on the mix include Joe Bataan’s “Rap-O-Clap-O.” This disco-rap features some tasty guitar and an almost comically bad rap refrain. It still grooves though. The Supremes appear towards the end of the mix with the lovely and surprisingly titled “High Energy” (only surprising because of its lack of drive and beat in comparison to most other tracks). The Philadelphia Sound is prominent here and the trio shows that they were really good without Diana Ross. While this material doesn’t break any new ground (and how could it with most tracks being 2+ decades old), this is not to say that the mix doesn’t fucking groove at times.

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