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Post-disco refers to a disco music movement initially of urban contemporary artists that started in the New York City area partially in response to over-commercialization and artistic downfall of disco culture or more specifically to a historically significant period in popular music history beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States starting in Chicago Illinois and spreading elsewhere in the late 1970s and ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in late 1980s.According to Britannica the very prototype post-disco sound is the music as performed by Parliament-Funkadelic who in this regard also laid a foundation of post-punk.The stripped-down musical trends followed from the mixed community of DJs and producers serendipitously establishing itself as an off-shot of disco—increasingly electronic and experimental in nature—during the contemporaneous emergence of more advanced electronic instruments and new programming tools enabling to come up with radically different sounds. The music is technology-centric keyboard-ladden melodic and employs funk-oriented bass lines synth riffs dub music aesthetics background jazzy or blues-y piano layers.
