{{short description|British pop band}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Disco 2000 | image = | caption = Disco 2000: "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" video | image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | alias = | origin = London, England | genre = Pop | years_active = 1987–1989 | label = KLF Communications | associated_acts = The KLF<!--<<br> Brilliant--> | website = | past_members = "Cress" (Cressida Cauty)<br/>"Mo" (June Montana){{refn|group=n|KLF Communications Info Sheets seem to suggest that Cress and Mo alone ''were'' Disco 2000, with Drummond and Jimmy Cauty involved as producers/musicians.<ref>{{LibraryOfMu|tl=web|mu-id=501|first=Bill|last=Drummond|authorlink=Bill Drummond|publisher=KLF Communications|date=22 January 1988|title=KLF Info Sheet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916115810/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=501|archive-date=16 September 2016|quote=Rockman is already doing some work with Disco 2000}}</ref><ref>{{LibraryOfMu|tl=web|mu-id=502|first=Bill|last=Drummond|authorlink=Bill Drummond|publisher=KLF Communications|date=10 March 1988|title=1988 Info Sheet One|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916111331/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=502|archive-date=16 September 2016|quote=K.L.F Communications house band, The KLF, will be... working on some tracks with Disco 2000}}</ref> The band was, however, considered to be at the very least an 'offshoot' of The KLF.<ref name="brown-1987-11">{{LibraryOfMu|mu-id=47|last=Brown|first=James|title=I Gotta CD|type=review|work=New Musical Express|date=28 November 1987|author-link=James Brown (editor)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916114119/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=47|archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="idj">{{Cite magazine|last1=Deeks|first1=Russell|last2=Anniss|first2=Matt|title=Worst cover versions|magazine=International DJ|issue=68|date=December 2005|url=http://www.i-dj.co.uk/features/featurespage.php?ID=75|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903201003/http://www.i-dj.co.uk/features/featurespage.php?ID=75&page=3|archive-date=3 September 2006}}</ref><ref name="trouserpress">{{Cite web|author-link=|last=Robbins|first=Ira|publisher=Trouser Press|url=http://trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=klf|title=KLF}}</ref> On the other hand, a 1992 piece in ''Select'' listed Disco 2000 as an alias of The KLF.<ref name="who-killed-klf">{{LibraryOfMu|mu-id=315|title=Who Killed The KLF|work=Select|date=July 1992|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011034454/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=315 |archive-date=11 October 2016|first=William|last=Shaw|author-link=William Shaw (writer)}}</ref>}} }}
'''Disco 2000''' was a British pop band, a side project of The KLF. Vocals were handled by '''Cress''' (Cressida Cauty, née Bowyer), then-wife of KLF co-founder Jimmy Cauty, and '''Mo''', June Montana (former vocalist of Jimmy Cauty's previous band Brilliant).<ref>{{Cite web|title=I Gotta CD|url=http://klf.de/home/record/i-gotta-cd/|access-date=2024-09-01|website=KLF Online}}</ref> Between 1987 and 1989, Disco 2000 released three singles on the KLF Communications label, none of which entered the top 75 of the UK Singles Chart.
==History== In 1981, Cressida Bowyer and Jimmy Cauty performed in the band Angels 1–5.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1980s/1981/Jul01angels15/|title=BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - 01/07/1981 Angels 1 - 5|website=bbc.co.uk}}</ref> They later married.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/jimmy-cauty-is-the-jam-jar-rebel-6404473.html|title=Jimmy Cauty is the Jam Jar rebel|date=24 May 2011|work=Evening Standard}}</ref> <!--Commenting out unless/until it is proven that Mo is/was June Montana:--><!--Between 1983 and 1986, Jimmy Cauty and June Montana were members of the band Brilliant, in which Jimmy Cauty played guitar.<ref name="trash"/> Brilliant were signed to WEA Records by their A&R man of the time, Bill Drummond,<ref name="AMGBrilliant">{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=brilliant-mn0000627485|title=Brilliant|first=Dan|last=Leroy|tab=biography|accessdate=5 March 2020}}</ref> but despite considerable investment,<ref name="skinner">Bill Drummond interviewed by Richard Skinner on ''Saturday Sequence'', BBC Radio 1, December 1990 ([http://www.brandnew.co.uk/klf/billdrummond/Bill%20Drummond%20Interview_Radio1%20Dec90.mp3 MP3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524180959/http://www.brandnew.co.uk/klf/billdrummond/Bill%20Drummond%20Interview_Radio1%20Dec90.mp3 |date=24 May 2006 }})</ref> the act was commercially unsuccessful.<ref name="AMGBrilliant"/> Tired of his job and disillusioned with the industry, Drummond left WEA in July 1986, and some months later co-founded The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs) with Jimmy Cauty.--> In 1987, Jimmy Cauty teamed up with Bill Drummond to form The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs).<ref name="who-killed-klf"/>/ The duo established an independent record label, KLF Communications,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/mar/22/indie-record-labels-changed-world|title=How indie labels changed the world|work=The Guardian|date=22 March 2012|first=Richard|last=King}}</ref> as a means to release The JAMs' material, and, as a side project, they dabbled in pop music with 'Disco 2000', a group fronted and vocalised by "Cress" (Cressida Cauty) and "Mo".<ref name="discog"/> Disco 2000's debut single, the first of three, was "I Gotta CD", released on 30 October 1987.<ref name="discog"/> Neither this nor its follow-up "One Love Nation" (1988)<ref name="discog"/> entered the UK Singles Chart.<ref>Rice, J. and Roberts, D. (2000) Guinness Book of British Hit Singles (13th Ed.), Guinness Publishing Ltd., London.</ref> A third single, "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (1989) peaked at #86 in the UK chart.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/25328/disco%202000/|title=Official Charts > Disco 2000|publisher=The Official UK Charts Company|accessdate=17 July 2017}}</ref> Music videos were filmed for "One Love Nation" and "Uptight".<ref name="discog">{{KLFDiscography}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Brown|first=James|author-link=James Brown (editor)|title=Disco 2000 out-bugging the bad guys|magazine=New Musical Express|date=7 May 1988<!--library of mu ID 76-->}}</ref> A track entitled "Feel This" was contributed by the group to the 1989 ''Eternity Project One'' LP, compiled by <!--former Brilliant member -->Martin Glover "(Eternity", better known as "Youth"),<ref>{{cite book|last=Shapiro |first=Peter |title =The Rough Guide to Drum 'n' Bass| authorlink=Peter Shapiro (journalist) |year=1999 |isbn=1-85828-433-3 |publisher= Rough Guides |pages=327}}</ref> under the name 'Discotec 2000'.<ref name="discog"/>
Cressida and Jimmy Cauty later set up home in a squat that also housed the KLF Communications recording studio, Trancentral.<ref name="trash">{{LibraryOfMu|tl=news|mu-id=384|last=Sharkey|first=Alix|title=Trash Art & Kreation|work=The Guardian Weekend|date=21 May 1994|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916110256/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=384|archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref> As Drummond and Jimmy Cauty dedicated themselves to The KLF, Cressida took on an organisational role for KLF Communications,<ref>{{LibraryOfMu|tl=web|mu-id=506|first=Cressida|last=Cauty|authorlink=Cressida Cauty|publisher=KLF Communications|date=August 1989|title=KLF Info Sheet 6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916120931/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=506|archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref> in addition to design and choreography work for The KLF, and her own work as an artist.<ref name="trash" />
==Reviews== Reporting on a 1988 gig by Disco 2000, ''NME'' writer Barbara Ellen described Mo and Cress as "two raucous, wicked, hideously beautiful she-cats with diamonds for brains.... For men, Disco 2000 must be like sex without the draggy chat-up scenario, Mae West without the lard, Madonna staked out in a jacuzzi looking anything but helpless."<ref>{{LibraryOfMu|mu-id=66|last=Ellen|first=Barbara|title=Disco 2000 – Kings Cross The Bell|type=live-performance review|work=New Musical Express|date=20 February 1988|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916124315/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=66|archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref>
In November 1987, ''NME'' reviewer James Brown described Disco 2000's single "I Gotta CD" as "A captivating KLF offshoot from the Jamms' backing singers crammed with slogans, metal solos, Farley Jackmaster style pianos, and gorgeously rank clap-a-long choruses. Addictive."<ref name="brown-1987-11"/> A few weeks later, he remarked on the "accessibility" and increasing "dance-awareness" of recent KLF Communications releases "I Gotta CD", "Whitney Joins The JAMs" and "Down Town".<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Brown|first=James|authorlink=James Brown (editor)|title=2000 OD|magazine=New Musical Express|date=5 December 1987}}</ref>
In 2005, ''International DJ'' magazine ranked Disco 2000's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"—a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Uptight"—amongst the twenty "worst cover versions in the history of dance music": "The KLF had some brilliant ideas, but forming their own girl group and covering this classic Stevie Wonder Motown stomper wasn't one of them. The resulting lurid day-glo fusion of Stock, Aitken and Waterman pop, edit-heavy '80s house and dodgy female rap was possibly one of the worst records in the history of the world."<ref name="idj"/> In contrast, a retrospective piece on the work of The KLF and related acts by ''Trouser Press'' magazine called "Uptight" "entertaining" and "like Bananarama on a rap tip".<ref name="trouserpress"/>
==Discography== {| | width="20px" | | valign="top" align="left" | '''I Gotta CD''' <br/>Artist: '''Disco 2000''' <br/>Year: 30 October 1987 <br/>Catalogue Number: '''KLF Communications D 2000''' |- | | valign="top" align="left" | '''One Love Nation''' <br/>Artist: '''Disco 2000''' <br/>Year: 4 April 1988 <br/>Catalogue Number: '''KLF Communications D 2002''' |- | | valign="top" align="left" | '''Uptight (Everything's Alright)''' <br/>Artist: '''Disco 2000''' <br/>Year: 16 January 1989 <br/>Catalogue Number: '''KLF Communications D 2003'''
''A cover of Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"'' |- | | align="left" valign="top" |'''Feel This''' <br />Artist: '''Discotec 2000''' <br />Year: 1989
''Featured in "Project One" compilation by Eternity'' |}
=== Formats and track listings === {|class="wikitable" ! align="center" rowspan=2 |Format (and countries)<ref name="discog"/> ! colspan=4 |Track number |- !1 !2 !3 !4 |- | colspan=5 align="left"| '''I Gotta CD''' |- | align="left" | 7" white-label promo single (UK) (limited edition of 500) |cd | | | |- | align="left" | 12" single (UK) |CD |L | | |- | colspan=5 align="left"| '''One Love Nation''' |- | align="left" | 12" single (UK) |o |O |OC | |- | colspan=5 align="left"| '''Uptight (Everything's Alright)''' |- | align="left" | 7" single (UK, rest of European Community) |u |h | | |- | align="left" | 12" single (UK, Germany, rest of European Community) |U |H | | |- | align="left" | CD single (European Community) |u |h |U |H |- |}
'''Key''' {| rowspan=2 style="width:700px; height:75%" |cd – "I Gotta CD (7" edit)" (3:47) |OC – "One Love Nation (Club Mix)" (5:18) |- |CD – "I Gotta CD" (6:50) |u – "Uptight (Everything's Alright) (Banana 2000)" (3:40) |- |L – "I Love Disco 2000" (5:25) |U – "Uptight (Everything's Alright) (Discorama Mix)" (4:45) |- |o – "One Love Nation (Radio Edit)" (3:40) |h – "Mr Hotty Loves You (edit)" (4:28) |- |O – "One Love Nation (Full Length)" (6:09) |H – "Mr Hotty Loves You" (6:14) |}
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==References== {{Reflist|2}} {{The KLF}}
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Category:KLF Communications artists Category:English pop girl groups Category:English pop music duos Category:Musical groups established in 1987 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1989