El Coco was the best-known of several projects by cult disco favorites W. Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder, who produced, arranged, wrote, and played all the instruments on four albums of dancefloor-friendly sounds that were released between 1975 and 1979. The duo showed off their studio-honed musical skills on original tracks like "Cocomotion" and "Let's Get It Together," while also giving a disco reboot to standards like "Caravan."
The duo's distinctive sound was partly a result of their jazz training, which showed up not only in their arrangements and chord progressions, b...