{"product_id":"disco-party-lp","title":"Disco Party [LP]","description":"\u003ch2\u003eReality - Disco Party [LP]\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMr Bongo presents a reissue of one of the rarest releases on the illustrious and now ultra-rare tax scam label TSG Records. A label with a checkered past, operated by Lloyd Price and with alleged ties to boxing promoter Don King. The album in question, Disco Party by Reality, is a stunning journey through '70s dancefloor-focussed funk into early proto-disco grooves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBack in mid-'70s Manhattan, Dr. Otto Gomez and a group of fellow New York musicians including Tony Dixon, Norman Drayton, Tony Dupree, Al Jones and Fred Nanton were brought in for a recording session by songwriter and producer, Billy Nichols. Laying down one of Nichols' songs and a selection of the group's own, they were paid as session musicians and thought little of it. The tapes came to the attention of Lloyd Price who struck a deal with Nichols unbeknownst to Gomez and the rest of the band.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrice then pressed the album and put it out in 1976 on a newly formed subsidiary label, TSG Records, that would later be documented as one of the US tax scam labels of the '70s. Such labels were created to exploit a loophole in the US tax system, running up inflated production costs \/ losses that investors or the parent label could write off against their tax bills. Releases on these labels were never intended to have comme(more...)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reality","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48728526717145,"sku":"5024017007277","price":62.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/0468\/3425\/files\/Reality-Disco-Party-_LP-690943722.jpg?v=1779238442","url":"https:\/\/drownedworldrecords.com\/en-nz\/products\/disco-party-lp","provider":"Drowned World Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}