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Disco Biscuits
The Disco Biscuits, a Philadelphia jam band formed in 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania (originally Party Tent and Zex Sea), pioneered trance fusion, mixing rock improvisation with techno and trance, and run the Camp Bisco festival; albums include Encephalous Crime and Senor Boombox.
Disco Dancer (डिस्को डांसर)
Disco Dancer (डिस्को डांसर) is a 1982 Hindi musical drama directed by Babbar Subhash, starring Mithun Chakraborty as Jimmy, with Bappi Lahiri's soundtrack; a huge hit in India and the USSR and a Hindi-cinema cult classic.
Disco Deewane
Disco Deewane is a 1981 pop album by Pakistani siblings Nazia and Zoheb Hassan, produced by Biddu and considered the first successful pop album in South Asia.
Disco Demolition Night
Disco Demolition Night, a July 12, 1979 White Sox promotion at Comiskey Park devised by Steve Dahl and Mike Veeck, ended in a riot and a forfeit to the Detroit Tigers and became a symbol of the anti-disco backlash.
Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium (also Disco Elysium – The Final Cut) is ZA/UM's 2019 dialogue-driven detective RPG set in Revachol, with skill voices, a Thought Cabinet, and no combat; BAFTA-winning, later marred by the ZA/UM ownership dispute.
Disco Elysium (soundtrack)
Disco Elysium soundtrack: the score for ZA/UM's 2019 RPG, composed by British Sea Power (now Sea Power). 30 songs adapted from the band's catalog, released December 2019 on Golden Chariot, winner of the 2020 BAFTA for Best Game Music.
Disco fries
Disco fries, a New Jersey diner dish of French fries topped with brown gravy and shredded mozzarella, named for 1970s clubgoers; the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton claims invention, and the dish is distinguished from poutine by its cheese.
Disco Inferno
Disco Inferno: 1976 disco hit by the Trammps (also an album title), written by Leroy Green and Ron Kersey; revived by Saturday Night Fever to US No. 11. Also a 2005 50 Cent single and a 1990s English experimental band.
Disco Inferno (wrestler)
Disco Inferno (Glenn Gilbertti, born 1968, Brooklyn) is an American professional wrestler famous for his 1995-2001 WCW disco-dancing gimmick, winning WCW Television, Cruiserweight, and Tag Team titles, later TNA and podcasting.
Disco Las Palmeras
Disco Las Palmeras! is a Spanish indie rock trio formed in Galicia at the end of 2009, known for noisy pop and shoegaze that turned toward pop.
Disco Lines
Disco Lines is the stage name of Thadeus Labuszewski, an American house DJ and producer from Colorado, known for the viral TikTok hit "Baby Girl" (2022), the label Good Good Records, and collaborations with Tinashe and Ship Wrek.
Disco Pigs
Disco Pigs: Enda Walsh's 1996 two-hander play about Cork teenagers Pig and Runt, premiered by Corcadorca with Cillian Murphy, adapted into Kirsten Sheridan's 2001 film with Elaine Cassidy.
Disco Presents
Disco Presents, known until 2024 as Disco Donnie Presents, is an American EDM event promoter founded by James "Disco Donnie" Estopinal in New Orleans in 1994.
Disco Raja (డిస్కో రాజా)
Disco Raja (డిస్కో రాజా) is a 2020 Telugu science fiction film directed by Vi Anand and starring Ravi Teja, about a dead man revived by scientists who recovers his memories.
Disco Volante (Mr. Bungle album)
Disco Volante (Italian for "flying saucer") is Mr. Bungle's second album, released by Warner Bros. on October 6, 1995: 12 genre-mashing tracks of death metal, techno, free jazz, and lounge pastiche, costing $80,000-$100,000 to record.
Discobolus (Δισκοβόλος)
Discobolus (Δισκοβόλος): lost mid-5th-century BC bronze discus-thrower by the Athenian sculptor Myron, once on the Athenian Acropolis, known through Roman marble copies including the Lancellotti, Townley, and Vatican versions.
DisCoCat
DisCoCat, short for categorical compositional distributional semantics, is a mathematical model of meaning that combines word vectors with grammatical structure, introduced by Coecke, Sadrzadeh, and Clark in 2010.
Discoglossus
Discoglossus, painted frogs, a genus of five alytid frog species native to southern Europe and northwestern Africa; type species D. pictus, sister genus Alytes, Upper Miocene origin.
Discographies of individual classical works
A discography of an individual classical work is a systematic list of all recordings of that single composition, including casts, dates, catalog numbers, and reissues.
Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
Discography: The Complete Singles Collection is a 1991 greatest-hits album by the Pet Shop Boys, collecting their 1985 to 1991 singles plus two new songs.
Discogs
Discogs, short for discographies, is a user-built online database of music releases and a marketplace for buying and selling vinyl, CDs, and cassettes, founded in 2000.
Discoid lupus erythematosus
Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE, chronic cutaneous lupus) is a scarring autoimmune skin disease of the face and scalp; 22 to 30 percent of patients progress to systemic lupus erythematosus, with ANA titers of 1:320 or higher a key risk factor.
Discoid meniscus
Discoid meniscus: congenital abnormally thick, disc-shaped knee meniscus, mostly lateral, in 3-5% of Western and 10-15% of Asian populations; Watanabe types I-III; treated by saucerization.
Disconnect (2012 film)
Disconnect is a 2012 American drama film directed by Henry Alex Rubin, following three stories about cyberbullying, identity theft, and a webcam performer, starring Jason Bateman.
Discontinued operation
A discontinued operation is a component of a business that has been disposed of or held for sale, reported as a single line under IFRS 5 and US GAAP.
Discontinuous deformation analysis
Discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) is a numerical method that simulates the motion and deformation of discrete blocks in jointed rock masses, applied mainly to rockfall, rock slopes, and landslides.
Discontinuous Galerkin method
The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is a finite element method for numerically solving partial differential equations, using discontinuous polynomials coupled through numerical fluxes at element boundaries.
Discontinuous precipitation
Discontinuous precipitation, also called cellular precipitation, is a solid-state reaction in which a supersaturated alloy decomposes at a migrating grain boundary into lamellar phases, discovered in 1930.
Discontinuous PWM
Discontinuous PWM, also called bus-clamping PWM, is a pulse-width modulation strategy for three-phase voltage-source inverters in which each leg periodically stops switching to cut switching losses.
Discontinuous shear thickening
Discontinuous shear thickening is the abrupt, large jump in viscosity seen in dense particle suspensions like cornstarch in water, when a critical shear stress is exceeded.