70s DJ

Funky floor filling 70s disco dance classics played by Experienced 70s Party DJ. If you got the moves we got the disco grooves, lets boogie. We can provide the perfect 1970s mobile disco entertainment and professional 70s music DJ for your 1970's theme night event. We play disco, glam rock and the top party pop from the 70s. Mainstream disco became a phenomenon when in 1977 the film Saturday Night Fever was released. Wearing a white suite with waistcoat was super cool and everyone wanted to strut their stuff.

In the mid to Late 70s there was an explosion in disco party's and these first days of disco were a boom time for the mobile DJ. Every youth club, scout troop, and social club held regular disco nights. Unfortunately although the music was brilliant the mobile disco equipment used by the average DJ was nothing like as good as it is today.

Direct drive turntables which were ultra expensive, and were not in widespread use until the late 80s. Almost all 70s DJs used a combination of belt drive turntables and a tape deck. The problem with belt drive was the slow start up speed and the possibility of the belt slipping when the deck becomes well used. Sometimes in a hot and humid club conditions moisture would build up on the surface of the belt thus causing the record to slip and slur the disco music. A DJ trick would be to put you finger on the record and manually spin it to help it maintain the correct speed.

If the dance floor was really bouncy or if the record was badly scratched another essential part of the 70s DJ kit would be a few coins. Sometimes placing a few coins on the record arm would help the needle stay in the groove. Today if the there is even a slight bleep in the music everyone will instantly notice, but back in the seventies a scratched record was normal and nobody much cared. As long as the tune was a good dance track most dances would ignore all the hiss, hum and the extra beats made by scratches and just boogie on down.