TREVOR BASTOW - HEY DISCO!

CD with 12 page line notes and unseen photos.

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In recent years disco has made a huge comeback as a collectable genre ranging from the output of classic artists like Donna Summer to obscure gems released across the world from America to Africa. The music on Hey Disco! began to attract interest when the sleeve was featured in the expanded reprint of Jonny Trunk’s 2005 The Music Library book in 2016. In the same year the Big Deal! Weinberger Funk Library 1975-1979 collection featured two tracks - Integration and Hydrogene – from Hey Disco!

Integration was an amazing electronic instrumental that had echoes of the sequenced heaven of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love and Hydrogene was an infectious beat driven piece of music.

As Hey Disco! was not available digitally, interest remained unsatisfied unless you could get your hands on a rare original copy of the LP. Like, many long established and well run music libraries Josef Weinberger is still thriving today – as JW Media – so I was able to licence the album for reissue directly from them.

This vinyl LP was re-mastered from the original tapes by Tim Debney at Fluid Mastering who, as always, has done an amazing job. Bastow’s original compositions on Hey Disco! had a wonderful flow on both sides of the LP. Tracks like Final Destination, Sunset West, Count Off, Sidewalk and Disco Hoedown are as funky as hell and it is a pleasure to allow fans of library music and disco music to be get their hands on this lost gem penned by Trevor Bastow who sadly went to the big disco in the sky in 2000 at the age of 55.

REVIEW

”It’s not often this column has the word “disco” in it, but it does now with the timely repress of Hey Disco! (HHH Om Swagger) an unusual library album from 1979 that seems to have a rather large waiting list (some 800 wants) on Discogs. Composed by Trevor Bastow - a talented arranger who’d worked for Tom Jones, this is not quite what you would imagine, but then again library music albums rarely are. So, it’s not all Studio 54 and spinning glitterballs, more odd proto techno as Trev battled with his brand new synths and studio tech. There’s a certain groove to it all, slightly sexy and odd (a good thing) with changing tempos and ideas - reminiscent of backgrounds to Tomorrow’s World when Commodore Pets were being introduced to schools and Clive Sinclair was riding about on that lethal C5 car bike thing he made. There is a bit of a balearic classic on here too, so the album certainly has more than one moment.” Jonny Trunk - Record Collector