The Beloved

As Edison might have put it, most great disco is one-percent inspiration,
ninety-nine-percent perspiration. Its unguarded vulgarity is what puts it over – "I'm not the
same/I have no shame," Madonna sang on her first record. What's held back the artsy British
synth technicians who've been aping disco moves over the last decade isn't their
narcissism or irony as much as their tasteful fear of sweat. Put on almost any Ne... More >