Much misunderstood by children of the 80s and 90s as a comedy musical genre in which men with dodgy chest hair and even dodgier flares sing with their balls trapped in a medieval torture device over a generic dance beat, disco, to those who know and care, is the lifeblood of all great dancefloor music, fashion and attitude. Vince Aletti alerted Rolling Stone readers as early as 1973 to an exciting new music being played in New York’s black gay clubs, a liberating mix of upbeat Motown and funk that was being seamlessly mixed by DJs who were creating musical soundscapes with their records and as such setting the precedent for the big name club DJs of the late 80s and 90s. Here, Aletti’s writings from 1973 to 1978 are collated for the first time, 484 pages of photographs, weekly reports from the New York club scene and reviews of virtually every disco record worth listening to, The Disco Files 1973-78 published by DJHistory.com is the definitive history of this landmark time in music history, when, as Aletti puts it, “we were all happy to be lost in music.”