Disco’s Revenge is a glorious deep cut reminder of how the great unifiers in our world are born out of love rather than hate.

Writer/Directors Omar Majeed and Peter Mishara take audiences well beyond the surface veneer of Disco to remind us of the music’s origins born from the social upheaval of Stonewall and the Civil Rights Movement as a genuine piece of counter culture whose mandate was simple; love and acceptance for all… Black, White, Latino, Straight, Queer, so long as you could dance.

Via some miraculous music clearances, fantastic archival footage and extensive interviews with the people who were there, Majeed and Mishara show us the multi-layered influences of the genre that still hold up with some of the best song writing of the modern era.

It’s lasting influences in the Hip-Hop, House Music and DJ community are laid lovingly bare, but more importantly this film allows the understanding of acceptance of one another, via the music that made everyone get on the dance floor.

At the time, Disco music was even more of a social driver for unity then organizations like the Black Panthers, because it stripped away everyone’s differences as they reveled in the joy of the ‘four on the floor’ that got everyone’s feet moving.

In this time of great cynicism and hatred that we live in;  Disco’s Revenge and its genuine purpose is to remind us all that we still need the ideas that came across in so much of the music like Chic’s “Everybody Dance”…

Music never lets you down
Puts a smile on your face
Any time, any place
Dancing helps relieve the pain
Soothes your mind, makes you happy again

“Clap Your Hands, Clap Your Hands” because Disco’s Revenge is undoubtedly the seminal documentary on the disco movement and a call to all of us to remember the love that came from it.