Bionic Boogie is one of the disco projects from the mid-70s which helped to mature and share dance music. Gregg Diamond is the head of this ensemble and his earlier work with Andrea True Connection (“More, More, More”) can be heard in this first Bionic Boogie album. His use of studio musicians creating a funky and live dimension among the rhythmic outlines of disco were audible thanks to studio musicians he supported. “Big West” is from the first self-titled Bionic Boogie project from 1977 and is one of the early instrumental disco tracks which gave us the rolling bass which became a staple among disco music as well as the dramatic strings and creative percussion scattered in his arrangements. This track, like much of his work, is self-written. One of his successes with Bionic Boogie were the vocals which included Gwen Guthrey, Yolanda, Zach Sanders and Luther Vandross.
I have taken the album version of “Big West” which has a few moments of that western touch in melodies and reapplied a recapping of the arrangement for this ReStructure Mix. A new predominant rhythm track is added to flow along and break the pure disco lightness into a downbeat sound.
