I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed this album. Normally when I hear the word “disco” I brace myself in preparation to hear something wack. In my mind I’ve always associated disco music with corny shit. In some ways, that association may always be present, but Boogie Back seems to re-define disco. It is a testament to the level of influence that funk and R&B had on the short-lived pop-fad genre. I don’t know much about disco but I know funk when I hear it. This album offers a slew of obscure funkiness that I would never expect anyone to find unless they happened to be Pete Rock’s son. The daily job of a good DJ is to DIG in the crates, and this man has done exactly that with this gold mine of a tracklist.
On Boogie Back, Spinna creates a perfect 70s throwback club-mix, conjuring up images of Studio 54 and coke-covered tables bathed in colored dance-floor lighting. My favorite selections tend to lean more toward the heavier, bassier side like the dubbed-down version of T.J. Swann’s “And You Know That.” The Parliament-reminiscent live bass funk from South Bronx that kicks off the mix is an appropriate selection, considering the funk-influenced aspect of disco mentioned earlier. From here on out the tracks date up until the synthesizer pop-funk sound of the early 80s - a sound that seems to be the proper inspiration for the title of the album. Boogie Back is a tribute to everything that ever was (or would be) precursors or successors to Disco music. To be fair, this could easily be an anthology in and of itself. But if you had to condense it into one 75 minute mix, this would be it.
[...] Spinna dropped a hip-hop album, Sonic Smash. More recently, he issued a mix set on BBE Records, The Boogie Back: Post Disco Club Jams, on which the NY native has sunk his stylus into the fecund funk between late ’70s disco and [...]
This is horribly written, but I can’t argue the 4/5.