"If any producer deserves high marks for music during the Disco era, it is by far Boris Midney! Not your typical top-40 Disco, but rather the long, symphonic, hardcore drummin', violin playin, hustlin' disco. Real music worth listening to!"
Classic Disco done classically
stch639 | Pittsburgh, PA United States | 03/03/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Where do I start? In the mad gay oriented daze of disco, there were a few pure music driven composers/producers. Of these the greatest were Giorgio Moroder, Alec R. Costandinos and...Boris Midney. Like Barry White, Boris took the basic 4/4 disco dance rhythm and turned it into a hypnotic experience. Purely melodic, Boris managed to compose long dance tracks which gave the dance crowd time to get into the deceptively simple tracks and raise themselves into a state of pure dancing ecstasy. These tracks show off the brilliance of a man who truly believes that dance music can be both energizing and intelligent."
A classical disco producer
Kent Gustafsson | Goteborg Sweden | 02/17/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"In this kind of music it is one of the very best producers
from late seventies disco-music, aswell as there is small recording tricks ahead of the time here and there.
The sound quality and recording interpretation is at top.
Music content: it is rare there is so good standard on so many tracks as it is on this double CD."
Good idea - could have been better
Bryan Cronin | New York | 12/24/2004
(3 out of 5 stars)
"OK, I've been a Boris Midney fan since the first time I heard "Come into my Heart" played at 12 West (Alan Dodd?). The entire room got "disco whiplash"! (This was back in the day when the serious dancers were very into the experience; they wanted to know who did what, etc., in many cases, even if they were on their third gorilla biscuit - think Roher 714.) "What is this? It's fabulous!"
Coupla things:
1 - It's obvious that these tracks were not laid-out by a club DJ - certainly not one that played them when they were new! The intros on some tracks (if they weren't the 'lead cut' on a side) are chopped off - rendering them difficult to use for mixing purposes.
2 - There is definitely some filler here.
3 - I wish they included the tracks sequed the way they were on the original Lps (instead of fading them out)! E.g., "That's the Meaning" into "Boogie Motion", etc.
4 - Where the ____ is "Make that Feeling Come Again" from Beautiful Bend???? Not on this collection! Serious oversight, in my opinion!
5 - Does not sound as if it were remastered in its entirety - not by a longshot.
Overall, though, it's nice to have MOST of this handy for driving, etc. Brings back memories of a much simpler, much looser and much more fun time in history!"