“I was 13 when I first heard ‘Boogie Nights’ by Heatwave on a children's TV show called Multicoloured SwapShop and it started a love affair with disco music that has lasted all my life. There's so much to love in disco. 40 years later I still hear plenty of sample tracks based around disco records but what I don't come across much of is actual original new material made to the disco blueprint.” – Joey Negro
It's hard to find enough superlatives to describe just how influential and prolific Dave Lee, aka Joey Negro, has been over the last three decades. One of music's major proponents of soulful, disco-tinged, vocal records and without question instrumental is its development and popularisation, no-one treats a loop, groove or hook with as much care and attention as Joey Negro.
Whether you realise it or not, Joey Negro productions have more than likely been soundtracking your life. Throughout the 90s and 00s right up until today, he has produced an astonishing number of records and remixes under various names and for some of the world's biggest and greatest artists. Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Deep Dish, Lionel Richie, Mariah Carey, Tears For Fears, Ultra Nate, Masters At Work, Roy Ayers, Blaze, Roger Sanchez: across both underground and pop music, the list goes on, contributing to one of the most impressive discographies in music, irrespective of genre.
Throughout his career, disco has been a key ingredient of the Joey Negro sound, and alongside the likes of Nile Rodgers, Daft Punk, Jamiroquai and Dimitri From Paris, he's one of the few artists to have been keeping the disco fire burning.
