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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 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 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.

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.

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.

Discord (My Little Pony)

Discord is the draconequus spirit of chaos in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, debuting in the 2011 season 2 premiere, voiced by John de Lancie as a Q-inspired trickster, reformed via Fluttershy, distinct from the chat app Discord.

Discos Peerless

Discos Peerless was a Mexican record label and manufacturer founded in Mexico City around 1929, Mexico's first major label, recording Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, and Celia Cruz.

Discourse on Colonialism

Discourse on Colonialism (Discours sur le colonialisme) is a 1950 pamphlet by Aimé Césaire arguing that colonialism dehumanizes the colonizer, and calling Nazism colonial methods turned on Europe.

Discovery (Daft Punk album)

Discovery (2001) is the second studio album by French electronic duo Daft Punk, also known as their robot-era debut. Released 12 March 2001 on Virgin, its 14 tracks of filtered disco, vocoder pop, and samples like Eddie Johns's "More Spell on You" reshaped dance music and later anchored the anime film Interstella 5555.

Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)

Discovery (1979) is ELO's eighth studio album, produced by Jeff Lynne at Musicland Studios, Munich. First ELO album without strings, first UK number-one, five hit singles including Don't Bring Me Down.

Discovery en Español

Discovery en Español is a U.S. Spanish-language cable network launched by Discovery Communications in June 1998, the leading channel of Discovery U.S. Hispanic, airing documentaries and docu-reality originals such as Mexicánicos.

Discovery of Love (연애의 발견)

Discovery of Love (연애의 발견, Discovery of Romance) is a 2014 KBS2 16-episode romantic-comedy miniseries starring Jung Yu-mi, Eric Mun, and Sung Joon in a love triangle; directed by Kim Sung-yun, written by Jung Hyun-jung.

Discusión

Discusión is a collection of essays by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Buenos Aires in 1932 and expanded in 1957 as volume six of his Obras completas.

Discworld

Discworld is Terry Pratchett's 41-novel comic fantasy series (1983-2015), set on a flat world carried by four elephants on a giant star turtle, featuring Death, Granny Weatherwax, and Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork.

Discworld (world)

Discworld is Terry Pratchett's fictional flat world carried by four elephants on the star turtle Great A'Tuin, setting of 41 satirical fantasy novels (1983-2015) run on magic and narrativium.

Disease (Lady Gaga song)

Disease is a 2024 Lady Gaga song released October 25, 2024 on Interscope as lead single of Mayhem (LG7); dark industrial dance-pop written with Polansky, Watt, and Cirkut, peaking at number 7 in the UK.

Disembodied (band)

Disembodied was an American metalcore band from Minneapolis, formed in 1995, known for its downtuned guitars and panic chords, and cited as a foundational influence on the metalcore revival.

Disenchanted (film)

Disenchanted (2022) is Disney's live-action musical comedy sequel to Enchanted, directed by Adam Shankman, starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Maya Rudolph, Idina Menzel, and James Marsden, streaming on Disney+ from November 18, 2022, with songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.

Disenchanted (My Chemical Romance song)

Disenchanted is a 2006 My Chemical Romance ballad, track 12 on The Black Parade (4:55), released as a live demo on the 2016 tenth-anniversary edition, and performed on the band's Long Live: The Black Parade tours.