Walter Gibbons

Walter Gibbons was a DJ/pioneer beatmatcher/etcetc producer legend etc etc. In the 1970s, he kicked it off by producing disco outfit Double Exposure's Ten Percent before going on to work with Loleatta Holloway, Salsoul and West End Records. He produced the above track, 'Moon Maiden' for the Luv You Madly Orchestra, and it's an absolutely incredible oddball disco track, with schizo layered rythmns and bonkers strings..

Strafe 'Set it Off' produced by Walter Gibbons



Strafe's Set It Off from 1984 is another track he's well known for producing.  House techno and electro blend somewhat easily - I'm utterly indifferent to the vocal myself, however i do love the laid-back but insistent drum track.. hypnotic. Anyway because of this one song he's been called a forerunner of Chicago house. Not hard to see why.


WG also produced a lot of Arthur Russel's releases, including one of the best AR tracks of all time, Schoolbell/Treehouse. If the rhythm track on Set it Off is going off, well this is literally some other planet. It starts intricate and switches up a lot but the drums just go off from about 7:00 and keep lopsidedly jogging their way through to the end of the track with a really cool manic energy.