Disco 3183

15/03/2022

Vinyl only funk and disco mix by Disco 3183 DJ Gavin Campbell. Includes Patrick Cowley, Chic, Tornado Wallace, Skyy, Dinosaur, Taka Boom, Carrie Lucas and more ... stay tuned for details on the next Disco 3183 party

For those unfamiliar with this pillar of the Australian music scene, Gavin is an Australian club DJ/Producer based in Melbourne, Victoria. He created the dan...

19/03/2021

Brush up those dance moves, disco lovers - Disco 3183 is returning soon!

Soul Train Dance to Jungle Boogie (1973)

09/12/2020

Now that restrictions across Victoria are getting lifted, we're keen to set a summer date for a Disco 3183 celebration!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7xApo10lsJRo4nMH9vubCg?si=fb5rZ6qdSQaYPINWD24DsQ

Disco, ghetto funk, afrobeat and Brazilian boogie gems - a DJ Gavin Campbell and Blencowes Milk Bar collobaration for the Disco 3183 community coming out of lockdown.

01/11/2020

RIP Phil K a true legend of the scene and a great supporter of our Disco parties, You'll be dearly missed

11/07/2020

For all Disco 3183 playlists on Spotify, follow our usernames - blencowes and djgavincampbell - for the complete Lockdown and Lockdown (Get) Lifted series - 24 hours of solid disco, funk and boogie!
https://open.spotify.com/user/blencowes?si=QurQNuZrR3eC7akE_lL1Dg

https://open.spotify.com/user/djgavincampbell?si=BNOf2YxwRdivf1cdrtEuvQ

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03/07/2020

Part 3 of our 'Lockdown (Get) Lifted' playlist series is now live.

This instalment of 70s and 80s disco and funk honours soul legend Luther Vandross, on the 15th anniversary of his passing.
Disco 3183 has featured four of his best recordings - two solo efforts, a Change classic and the title song from the 1982 hit album Luther produced for Aretha Franklin titled 'Jump To It'.

'Like our Disco 3183 page here on Facebook for news of other playlists and more, including news of our upcoming live streams and dance events.

R.I.P. Luther Vandross, soul superstar, producer extraordinaire!

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05/06/2020

Part 2 of our 'Disco 3183 - Lockdown (Get) Lifted' playlist is now live and ready for the weekend!

Disco 3183 continues to dig deep into our music box, to create this new three-part playlist to see you through, until we can all share the dancefloor again.

Balaclava’s favourite café Blencowes Milk Bar and DJ Gavin Campbell have collaborated on this set, featuring disco, funk, afrobeat, Brazillian boogie and a touch of swamp blues set.

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29/05/2020

Disco 3183 travelled the globe this week, from New York to Brazil, Nigeria and across Europe, we’ve dug deep into our music box, creating this new three-part 'Lockdown (Get) Lifted' playlist to see you through, until we can all share the dancefloor again.

Balaclava’s favourite café Blencowes Milk Bar and DJ Gavin Campbell have collaborated to present a solid disco, ghetto funk, afrobeat and Brazillian boogie set, kicking off today with part 1, followed by parts 2 & 3 to follow over the next few Fridays.

‘Disco 3183 Lockdown (get) Lifted – part 1’ is now available on Spotify.

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26/04/2020

One my favourite disco/funk producers, the quirky Hamilton Bohannon, has passed away overnight, at 78 years of age.
Bohannon’s 1978 dance floor classic ’Let’s Start The Dance’ is the track we sampled in 1990, for our Filthy Lucre remix of Yothu Yindi’s 'Treaty'. This disco romp is what gave 'Treaty' its gritty, stomping funk sound and the iconic vocal line “clap your hands and dance”. Many other artists have since sampled Bohannon songs in their music, including Mary J Blige, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake and Snoop Dogg.

Also interesting to point out, is that in the 1981 Tom Tom Club classic ‘Genius of Love’, Tina Weymouth's (Talking Heads bassist) rap features Bohannon's name as a chant …

“Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go?
With a hippie-the-hip and a hippie-the-hop
Who needs to think when your feet just go
"Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon"
Who needs to think when your feet just go
"Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon"
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown”

In recent years, Bohannon was honoured by the city of Newnan, Georgia USA when they renamed the quarter-mile stretch of road where he grew up ‘Hamilton Bohannon Drive’ and a new Berlin club was named ‘Bohannon Soul Club’.

Hamilton Bohannon thank you for the music and the inspiration. R.I.P. (1942-2020)

09/04/2020

A playlist for the Disco 3183 community in lockdown and disco lovers everywhere. We can't dance together physically but we can dance together in spirit!

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07/04/2020

Disco 3183 will be back celebrating community as soon as we're able. In the meantime, here's a photo gallery from our dance at The Post. Tomorrow, we'll present a playlist of disco songs to keep you going till we can dance together again, at Firefly on Inkerman.

Please tag yourself and friends in these great photos from Jessica Middleton and invite your friends to 'like' our page to be the first to know when next we disco dance!