Are you aiming for maximum beard-stroking respect?
Your compilations are always troves of disco oddities.
As Horse Meat Disco announce a date for Love International, we checked in with James Hillard. As voracious crate-diggers, these guys know their field inside out, and their compilations for UK label Strut are testament to this. Disco isn’t the only sound played (soul, funk and house all get a look-in) but it does define the club as much as its tongue-in-cheek logo, the Ferrari horse with a stiffy. Although it is nominally a gay night, all are welcome, be they fans of HMD’s weekly radio show on UK's Rinse FM or just men who like to strip off and shake their bits on stage. Horse Meat flipped that attitude on its head. Their only aim, a vague one at that, was to veer away from the clichés of other queer nights at the time: music with only two settings (hard tribal house or plastic pop) and a cliquey door policy that often left straight punters out in the cold. The four resident DJs who run the Sunday party at Eagle in Vauxhall, London – Luke Howard, Severino, Jim Stanton and James Hillard – didn’t have a grand plan when they started off in 2003. The story behind its success is a simple one. Horse Meat Disco is everything a good weekly club should be: friendly, inclusive, not too pricey and playing music that’s defined yet unpredictable and adventurous.
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