{"id":1275,"date":"2010-01-21T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2010-01-23T00:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T07:04:57","slug":"secret-disco-something-borrowed-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Secret Disco: Something Borrowed, Something New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IL45YOtbuy0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IL45YOtbuy0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong>Liquid Liquid &#8211; Cavern (1983)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does this song sound familiar? If it does, you might think it&#8217;s a rip-off of Melle Mel&#8217;s <em>White Lines<\/em> except it was Melle Mel who borrowed this song for <em>White Lines<\/em> while neglecting to give the band Liquid Liquid credit. A lawsuit ensued causing the band&#8217;s record company to go bankrupt and the band to fall apart and in the end, Liquid Liquid received no credit for being the originators of this popular and seminal hip-hop song.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly a punk band from New Jersey, Liquid Liquid became influenced by bands like Can and Fela Kuti and soon after found themselves in the Leftfield Disco scene. <strong>The Secret History of Disco<\/strong> describes them as &#8220;rock deconstructionists with a ferocious but minimal groove.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IXuv7m-5_gw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IXuv7m-5_gw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong>Melle Mel-White Lines (1983)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid Liquid &#8211; Cavern (1983) Does this song sound familiar? If it does, you might think it&#8217;s a rip-off of Melle Mel&#8217;s White Lines except it was Melle Mel who borrowed this song for White Lines while neglecting to give the band Liquid Liquid credit. A lawsuit ensued causing the band&#8217;s record company to go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secret Disco: Something Borrowed, Something New<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}