Editing Disco (section)

===Post-punk ===
{{Main|Post-punk|dance-punk}}

The [[post-punk]] movement that originated in the late 1970s both supported [[punk rock]]'s rule-breaking while rejecting its move back to raw [[rock music]].<ref name=Reynolds/> Post-punk's mantra of constantly moving forward lent itself to both openness to and experimentation with elements of disco and other styles.<ref name=Reynolds/> [[Public Image Limited]] is considered the first post-punk group.<ref name=Reynolds/> The group's second album ''[[Metal Box]]'' fully embraced the "studio as instrument" methodology of disco.<ref name=Reynolds/> The group's founder [[John Lydon]], the former lead singer for the [[Sex Pistols]], told the press that disco was the only music he cared for at the time.

[[No wave]] was a subgenre of post-punk centered in New York City.<ref name=Reynolds/> For shock value, [[James Chance]], a notable member of the no wave scene, penned an article in the ''East Village Eye'' urging his readers to move uptown and get "trancin' with some superradioactive disco voodoo funk". His band [[James White and the Blacks]] wrote a disco album titled ''[[Off White]]''.<ref name=Reynolds/> Their performances resembled those of disco performers (horn section, dancers and so on).<ref name=Reynolds/> In 1981 [[ZE Records]] led the transition from no wave into the more subtle [[mutant disco]] ([[Post-disco#Dance-rock|post-disco/punk]]) genre.<ref name=Reynolds/> Mutant disco acts such as [[Kid Creole and the Coconuts]], [[Was Not Was]], [[ESG (band)|ESG]] and [[Liquid Liquid]] influenced several British post-punk acts such as [[New Order (band)|New Order]], [[Orange Juice (band)|Orange Juice]] and [[A Certain Ratio]].<ref name="Reynolds">Rip It Up and Start Again POSTPUNK 1978–1984 by [[Simon Reynolds]]</ref>