Horse Meat Disco Glitters

Inspired by the halcyon days of New York nightlife, London's Horse Meat Disco party was started back in 2003 by DJ's James Hillard and Jim Stanton. After moving from China Town to their new home at Eagle London the night quickly developed a reputation for fantastic parties and high quality disco sets. Following Strut's acclaimed releases of Disco Not Disco and Disco Italia over the last year, the label saw that it only made sense to team up with Horse Meat Disco for their hotly anticipated debut compilaton. The debut, the oddly enough titled, Horse Meat Disco compilation dives deep for 70 minutes of classic underground disco nuggets.

Horse Meat Disco is a crate digger's dream come true because it features sixteen rarely heard tunes that are so obscure that only the artists and the guys who run this party know them. Packed with songs that are pretty much guaranteed to get your tailfeathers shaking, Horse Meat Disco is a funky excursion across the dance floor powered by unbelievable basslines, diva's laying it down, and drums that don't know when to stop. It's is a non-stop party that's so energetic and exhaustive you can almost see the sweat dripping off of it.

From Karen Young's soulful pop groover, "Deetour (Party Mix)," to the ridiculous amount of groove, strings, and keys in the instrumental, "Hupendi Muziki Wangu (You Don't Like My Music)," from K.I.D. this record is so overwhelming that it's hard to sit still at all. In fact, Horse Meat Disco is so irresistibly filled with funk that several people in my office have broken into bouts of spontaneous dancing while walking by my desk.

Covered in polyester and soaked with sweat, Horse Meat Disco is easily one of the best disco compilations since Saturday Night Fever was released. It's got so many rarities and essential tunes spread out across the disc that it's an essential selection for anyone it awe of the groove. The two CD format features one disc mixed by club founders James Hillard and Jim Stanton and a second disc with unmixed tracks that when put together makes for some essential listening.