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  "slug": "loose-joints",
  "name": "Loose Joints",
  "description": "Loose Joints appears 3 times in our Disco, The Waxonia Desk — In the Room, and The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept lists, placing as high as No. 7. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/loose-joints/",
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  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
    "first": 1980,
    "last": 1980
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 7,
    "list": "Disco"
  },
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      "entries": 1
    },
    {
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      "slug": "the-desk-chicago-in-the-room",
      "name": "The Waxonia Desk — In the Room",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-chicago-in-the-room/",
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    },
    {
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      "name": "The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept",
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      "entries": 1
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      "title": "Is It All Over My Face",
      "year": 1980,
      "label": "West End",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Arthur Russell's downtown art project, rescued by a Larry Levan mix that turns a shambles into a groove. The record where disco stops being glossy and starts being strange, which is exactly where house picks it up.",
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          "name": "The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept",
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      ],
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          "exact": false
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      },
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      "title": "Is It All Over My Face",
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      "label": "West End",
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      "whyItMatters": "Larry Levan's mix, and the disco record that sounds most like what came after it. Chicago inherited more from New York than the city's own mythology tends to admit.",
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          "name": "The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept",
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        }
      ],
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    },
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      "title": "Is It All Over My Face",
      "year": 1980,
      "label": "West End",
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      "whyItMatters": "Disco at its strangest and least commercial, rescued by a mix. The rare groove tradition was never about obscurity for its own sake; it was about records that were better than their sales.",
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      ],
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