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Boogie (or electro-funk, post-disco) is an electronic/funk-influenced
variation of post-disco. Boogie tracks are usually mid-tempo.
Term "boogie" was used in London to describe a form of African-American
dance/funk music from 1980s. The name boogie tended to be used as, although
essentially used to describe disco records, the word disco had gained
bad connotations by the early 1980s. It had a popular following within
London's underground scene, often based around nightclubs and club DJs
due to a lack of mainstream radio support. Boogie records were mostly
imported from the United States and were sometimes regarded as "electro-funk"
or "disco-funk".[3] Originally the word boogie could be found
in 1970s funk and disco records, but tracks like "Boogie's Gonna
Get Ya" (Rafael Cameron, 1981), "Don't Make Me Wait"
(Peech Boys, 1981), "Break Dancin' - Electric Boogie" (West
Street Mob, 1984), "I'm in Love" (Evelyn "Champagne"
King, 1981) or "You're the One for Me" (D. Train, 1981) helped
define the musical style of boogie.
Boogie record labels include Prelude,
West
End, Sam as well as mainstream disco labels like SalSoul,
Radar
or Vanguard,
among with Profile, Tommy Boy, Streetwise, Sugar Hill, Emergency, Solar
Records and Total Experience Records.
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