Keith's choice, Walter Gibbons

Walter Gibbons loved drums. As a young DJ, the beat-heavy records he played defined his sound and as a remixer he had the knack of drawing the rhythmic essence out of both the brilliant and the mediocre. Gibbons was responsible not only for remixing the first commercially released 12-inch but for challenging where the boundaries of a remix lay, often dissembling songs till they were little more than crazed beatscapes. In his later years, he discovered God, refused to play records with a negative message and, finally, died of an AIDS related illness, a largely forgotten figure.

http://www.djhistory.com/features/walter-gibbons

The music world's prime disco big band during the late '70s, the Salsoul Orchestra recorded several of the tightest, chunkiest disco themes of the 1970s, both on its own productions and as the backing group for several prime vocalists. Organized by Vincent Montana, Jr. in 1974, the band was an experiment in fusing funk, Philly soul, and Latin music together in a highly danceable discofied style with plenty of room for solos by individual members. With arrangers, conductors, and whole sections of instruments (including up to 18 violinists) contributing to the sound, the Salsoul Orchestra routinely included up to 50 members. Though the Salsoul sound became passé in the wake of disco music's explosion and rapid commercialization during the late '70s, Salsoul was a heavy influence on house music in the 1980s and even the return of disco-inspired electronica during the following decade.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-salsoul-orchestra-mn0000495702/biography

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