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Judging by the recent pop charts, disco’s in for a very good 2014. The genre’s revival and rehabilitation have been going on for awhile, as anyone familiar with LCD Soundsystem and/or the deep cuts on Justin Timberlake albums could tell you, but heading into the end of 2013 the sound is poised at a major tipping point. The two most inescapable songs of the summer, Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” both work in the organic disco tones that LCD’s James Murphy’s been promoting for years, with Thicke’s smash being a rather unabashed pileup of ideas lifted directly from Murphy’s recordings. And now, just as we hit fall, two of the most influential artists in quite disparate fields have unexpectedly found discofied common ground, and are turning it into hits.
