Bedmo Disco are a DJ/production outfit from Bristol, England, who founded their own Bedmo Disco Records imprint in 2010 to offer an outlet for good quality disco, boogie, funk, soul and related from like-minded individuals.
Bedmo Disco is primarily two people: Bristol-based record geeks Sell By Dave (aka music journalist Matt Anniss) and Five-Stylez (aka DJ equipment specialist Oli Ackroyd). The duo have been DJing, promoting and making music together since 2007. They previously recorded under the pseudonym Thumbs Aloft and have performed shows (with regular mic man Coherent) as The Bedmo Disco Soundsystem.
The Bedmo Disco moniker comes from the duo’s love for Bedminster (Bedmo for short), an area of Bristol not known for its passion for underground disco. Bedmo is the “least disco place in the world”. Bedmo Disco HQ – often referred to as North St Sound in tribute to a local landmark – is actually in Southville, but that’s just a middle class suburb of Bedmo in reality.
Bedmo Disco have vast experience as DJs, and record collections to match. Their vast collections take in everything from jazz, hip-hop, proper house, techno, garage, dubstep, drum and bass and broken beat to calypso, country and western, folk, rare rock, Afrobeat, Latin grooves and, of course, all forms of disco, soul and funk past, present and future. As DJs, they’ve played all over the world (well, in Europe and Australia) as well as the UK. They hold a bi-monthly residency at the Big Chill Bristol. Although serious about music, they believe in playing great music to get the party started, whether that’s slo-mo, midtempo or uptempo, rarely heard or well known.
Bedmo Disco Records was launched in 2010. Although it features some Bedmo Disco material, it was never designed as a “vanity label”. It is there to release great music by friends, like-minded souls and party-starters the world over. Current Bedmo Disco Records acts include Rocco Raimundo, JP Source, Jimmy The Twin, Awon and Cosmic Boogie.
The distinctive Bedmo Disco logo was designed by the very talented Christophe, Bristol-bsaed disco legend and graphic designer par excellence. Check out his work at his Luxury Creative Thinking blog >>
hi guys, can you do me a favour and remind me from whom the original “money crazy” track is? i guess its early 80′s and i had it on an old mixtape and can’t find the name of the artist anymore… thanks would be much appreciated… cheers, anand