Sławomir Skręta is the owner of the Polish record label Blue Star, known for releasing domestic dance music known as

disco polo Disco polo is a music genre, genre of popular dance music, created in Poland in the 1980s. It was initially known as ''sidewalk music'' () or ''backyard music'' ('). This genre, a type of Polish urban folk music, had great popularity in the 1990s ...

. He, his label and its artists are featured in the Polish documentary on disco polo, Bara Bara, by filmmaker Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz. The original name of the genre, muzyka chodnikowa (“sidewalk music”), that referred to cassettes sales from temporary stands on the sidewalks, was changed to the “nobler-sounding” disco polo as a reference to Italo-disco. The changing of the name was an inspiration from Sławomir Skręta, the owner of Blue Star, the first label established to record such music.Polish Hip-Hop as the Voice of “New Others” in the Post-Socialist Transition, Footnote 14

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