SPACIAL FRENCH DISCO 1975-79 VOL 2 by ARPADYS, DISCO & CO

France fed records to the disco explosion right from the start. Most famously, the Tele Music players were the chart-topping, multi-million-selling Voyage, with the trio of Chantereau, Dahan and Pezin joined by Sauveur Mallia. But more exciting to collectors are the long-running series of library LPs they worked on.1977’s Arpadys has become Tele Music’s most sought after release, thanks to oft-bootlegged tracks ‘Monkey Star’, ‘Stone Roller’ and ‘Funky Bass’. Arpadys put Sauveur Mallia in the driving seat musically, alongside Chantereau, Dahan and Pezin, with keyboards from Georges Rodi and Jean-Pierre Sabar. A follow-up, the Spatial & Co series remained library-only LPs, though the tracks did serious business on TV thrillers and space programmes. Then in 1979 the same group of musicians, with the exception of Mallia, laid down another three disco albums, the Disco & Co LPs, again much sought-after by collectors. Amazingly these were dashed off in between sessions for the second Voyage album, to satisfy the still-growing demand for library disco. The musicians loved their library work. They no longer relied on the vocalists; it was all in the arrangements and the progression of the music itself.” Tokarz admits that his disco recordings are the most enduring. “Today most of our records have a very short lifespan. The ones from our back catalogue which are still very popular are the ones which have that typical ’70s sound.”