Johnnie Taylor - Disco 9000 (Best of) (1977)

1. disco lady
2. i got this thing for your love
3. play something pretty
4. somebody's gettin it
5. your love is rated x
6. disco 9000
7. (ooh wee)she's killing me
8. ever ready
9. keep on dancing
10. you're the best in the world

AMG.com
Disco 9000's ten tracks mark the sharp transition in Taylor's amazing career, from being a straight soul singer to being a soul-disco singer. While the keyboards and electronic drums are everywhere present and the beats are geared to the dancefloor, there is nothing here that is really inconsistent with Taylor's trademark soul delivery. For example, check the in-the-pocket groove of "Play Something Pretty" or the R&B-reggae fusion in "I Got This Thing for Your Love." Certainly the hard funk on "Your Love Is Rated X" and the title track (written by Taylor) might seem at odds with the smooth soul crooner's ideal, but it's still there, and it rises above the arrangements into the heights of R&B heaven. Disco 9000 is a record that deserves to be re-evaluated in the lieu of this great artist's contribution. Wait until the nu-soul groovers get ahold of it.
by Thom Jurek

Please note that this is NOT the OST to the blaxploitation movie of the same name for that go here.