Disco Not Disco 2 is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 from the Disco Not Disco series released by Strut Records in 2002. The album is a probe to experimental side of disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 and punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 genres and underground music

Underground music

Underground music comprises a range of different musical genres that operate outside of mainstream culture. Such music can typically share common values, such as the valuing of sincerity and intimacy; an emphasis on freedom of creative expression; an appreciation of artistic creativity...

 scene in general. The second volume is more electro and dance

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 oriented and features electro pioneer Alexander Robotnick

Alexander Robotnick

Alexander Robotnick is an Italian electronic musician. He made his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding member of Avida, a dance-cabaret band featuring Daniele Trambusti and Stefano Fuochi....

 ("Problèmes D'Amour"), post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 and dance-rock

Dance-rock

Dance-rock is a post-disco movement connected with post-punk/no wave genres with fewer R&B/funk influences. An example of this "post-disco" is Gina X's "No G.D.M." and artists like Liquid Liquid, Polyrock, Dinosaur L, and Disco Not Disco [2000] compilation album...

 music groups like Laid Back

Laid Back

Laid Back is a Danish Post-punk group formed in Copenhagen by John Guldberg and Tim Stahl in 1979...

, Material

Material (band)

For the rock band of the same name, see The MaterialMaterial is a musical group formed in 1979 and led by bass guitarist Bill Laswell.-1978-82: The band:...

 and The Clash

The Clash

The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...

, Can

Can (band)

Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...

, and Arthur Russell.

It was compiled, once again, by a British DJ and music producer Joey Negro

Joey Negro

Dave Lee is a British DJ and house music producer, also known by the stage name Joey Negro. Lee was born on the Isle of Wight. He has released music under a variety of pseudonyms, including the name Jakatta...

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Reception

• The Allmusic review by Andy Kellman awarded the album 4 stars stating "Despite all the advances made in dance music in the decades that followed the greatness featured here, the lasting value is undeniable."
• The Stylus Magazine
  Stylus Magazine
  Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, a number of different podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog....
  
   review by Scott Plagenhoef gave the album B- saying "So bag the preconceptions and get on the floor—embrace these beats without process and listen without prejudice. And while you’re at it, grab the stronger Disco (Not Disco) as well".

Track listing

Personnel

"White Horse"

• Producers: Laidback

"Problèmes D'Amour"

• Vocals: Martine Michellod
• Vocals, Electric guitar, programmed by: Maurizio Dami
• Recorded by: Marzio Benelli
• Producer: Arlo Bigazzi, Giampiero Bigazzi, Maurizio Dami

"Bostich" (Extended Dance Version)

• Percussion: Beat Ash
• Remix: Ian Tregoning
• Producer: Yello

"Aspectacle" (Holger Czukay Edit)

• Editing: Holger Czukay
  Holger Czukay
  Holger Czukay is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described by critic Jason Ankeny as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde," Czukay is also notable for creating early important examples of ambient music, for exploring...
  
  

"Ciguri"

• Drums, electric guitar, vocals: Fred Maher
  Fred Maher
  Fred Maher is an American drummer, programmer and record producer.He was a member of Massacre , Material, Scritti Politti, Lou Reed, and is best known as the producer of I'm Talking's album Bear Witness , Lou Reed's album New York , Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend , and Information Society's self...
  
  
• Guitar: Robert Quine
  Robert Quine
  Robert Wolfe Quine was an American guitarist, known for his innovative guitar solos.A native of Akron, Ohio, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown in comparison...
  
  
• Bass guitar: Bill Laswell
  Bill Laswell
  Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....
  
  
• Vocals, synthesizer: Michael Beinhorn
  Michael Beinhorn
  Michael Beinhorn is an American musician and record producer.Beinhorn started his professional career as a musician, playing keyboards in Bill Laswell's Material during the 1980s...
  
  

"Get Down"

• Producer: Noel Williams

"Timewarp"

• Producer: Eddy Grant

"Let's Go Swimming"

• Editing: Killer Whale
• Producer: Mark Freedman
• Producer, composer: Arthur Russell

"Sting" (Part One)

• Producer: J. & N.

"Fourteen Days"

• Arrangement: Jeff Schack
• Mixing, producer: Ray "Pinky" Velazquez

"This Is Radio Clash"

• Producer: The Clash