These new wavers know how to party
Dec 30, 2010
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Le Baron - Le Sifflet Du Baron
Behind the name le Baron, the genius and highly recognised French musician and organist Benard Estardy made this groovy tropical jam. Other than being a perfect whistling along song, it was also used as a radio theme.
Le Baron - Le Sifflet Du Baron
Dec 20, 2010
Dec 17, 2010
Dec 14, 2010
Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun
Long and smooth african disco funk track from 1984. Check discogs
Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun
Dec 13, 2010
Dec 9, 2010
Dec 6, 2010
Gregory Isaacs - Cool Down The Pace (10" Mix)
Not the biggest fan of reggae, but this one always gets me smiling and thinking of summer. From 1982 by Jamaican legend Gregory Isaacs.
Gregory Isaacs - Cool Down The Pace (10" Mix)
Dec 4, 2010
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Nov 29, 2010
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Nov 21, 2010
Ian Hunter - Bastard
Ian Hunter from the 1979 album You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic. Some groovy rock up in here.
Ian Hunter - Bastard
Nov 16, 2010
Nov 15, 2010
Gabi Delgado - History Of A Kiss
Gabi Delgado - Histroy Of A Kiss
Nov 12, 2010
Bobby J - Number One
Bobby J is kicking it with a classic Italo Disco performance on Italian national television. This 1984 one-hit-wonder has some really great lyrics. Take a listen.
Bobby J - Number One
Nov 8, 2010
Jimmy The Hoover
Jimmy The Hoover were a British pop band formed in 1982. They had a hit with the song "Tantalise (Wo Wo Ee Yeh Yeh)", but after that, they had no real success with their other singles. Despite their lack of success, the sound on most of their songs, especially the african calypso elements, are very charming and it warms my feet in this cold weather we're having.
Jimmy The Hoover - Ego
Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise
Nov 7, 2010
Nov 6, 2010
Vangelis - Dervish D
Greek composer "Vangelis" is widely known for is movie score for the film "Chariots of Fire" and his scores for "Blade Runner". This however is from the ablum "Spiral", which in my opinion is his best work. Far more danceable and a club hit for the likes of cosmic dj Daniele Baldelli - Whatch him spin the record at a club
Vangelis - Dervish D
Oct 30, 2010
Oct 26, 2010
Mr Master - A dog in the night
"A dog in the night" from 1983, is some serious hard pumping italo by Casco, who is behind this masterpiece. Perfect groove and synth and some truely great lyrics to top it off.
Mr Master - A dog in the night (vocal mix)
Mr Master - A dog in the night (instrumental)
Oct 21, 2010
Oct 19, 2010
Oct 14, 2010
Oct 1, 2010
Sep 27, 2010
Ahmed Fakroun
Ahmed Fakroun, born in Lybia, is an arabian disco and electro pioneer. In the 70's and 80's he spend a lot of time in France, where he recorded "Mots D'amour", a great record filled with oriental disco and electro. These two tracks are my favourites, plus an edit of Soleil Soleil by Prince Language.
Ahmed Fakroun - Love Words
Ahmed Fakroun - Soleil Soleil
Ahmed Fakroun - Yo Son (edit de Prince Language)
Sep 24, 2010
Dreamlike land
This here is probably one of my favourites right now. Richard Schneider Jr. from Germany made this warm, dreamy and latin inspired record, "Dreamlike Land", back in 1977. Some songs has spacey synth, groovy bass and long guitar solos, others has latin inspired percussion and jazz smoothing grooves that will bring you straight to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Perfect for these early days of fall, and this years last warm sunbeams.
I will only post a couple of songs from the record, but the whole LP is truly great.
Richard Schneider Jr. - High
Richard Schenider Jr. - Samba-Trip
Richard Schneider Jr. - Hello Beach Girls
Sep 23, 2010
Bolero
"Bolero" is originally composed by Maurice Ravel for a 1928 ballet, but in 1977 Gino Soccio and Pat Deserio made a disco synth cover of the piece as a group called Kebekelektrik. The video is made of clips from the comedy movie "10", which is about a middle aged man searching through his mid-life crisis and his sexual fantasies.
Kebekekelektrik - Bolero
Sep 22, 2010
Shamall
Powerful german italo disco by Shamall, great song, great hair and super performance. "My dream" was one of their only italo disco singles, later, and to this day, frontman Norbert Krueler started experimenting with prog-rock, krautrock and psychedelich sounds.
Shamall - My dream
Sep 20, 2010
Sep 19, 2010
Le Prophete
French Canadian Zig Zag took me back to the beach with this perfect, simple and rare disco gem.
Zig Zag - Le Prophète
Sep 18, 2010
Ganymed
I guess, this must be the much better late seventies disco version of the terrible Finish rock group Lordi.
Yummy Moon
Tri Atma was a collaboration between german guitar player Jens Fischer and the indian drummer Asim Saha. Take electronic pop music from the 80's and mix it with eastern inspired musical elements and you will get this sunny song.
Tri Atma - Yummy Moon
Sep 14, 2010
I kissed your lips
Kiss is commonly regarded as the mashing of one's lips against another person or object. It can be an expression of love, passion, respect, greeting, good luck, or total barnyard hornlust. It is universally common among all cultures except for Eskimo, a culture so dangerously cold that kissing can result in one's face being eaten by a good friend. Observe this video and learn more about the kiss.
Video and words by Mishka
Gary Wilson - And then I kissed your lips
Ich werde einfach Millionär und kaufe dann die DDR
The video is from the movie "Nuclearvision". I haven´t seen it yet, but it looks very promising. It´s also a great minimal track.
Sep 10, 2010
From Russia with Love
Russian boy singer Igor Veryaskin
Russian bus driver entertaining his passengers
Mp3: Deen Haan - Russian Boat Commander
Sep 8, 2010
Sep 5, 2010
Pink Project
Italian Pink Project was mainly a production team, consisting of Stefano Pulga, Luciano Ninzatti, Matteo Bonsanto and Massimo Noè. In early 1982 they began making mash-ups of different disco acts, some of the very first mash-ups of its kind. What I admire is that no samples where used, every arrangement was re-played, and in "Disco Project" the choir kids where brought in from the international school in Rimini. "Disco Project" is a mash-up of Pink Floyd and two songs by The Alan Parsons Project, it became a huge hit in Italy. After the success with "Disco Project", they decided to make an album only with mash-ups. The album "Dominó" has some truly great moments, but also some lows, like the italo disco version of "smoke on the water"!. My personal favourite is the mash-up between The police and Donna Summer, "Voices of Independence", it got a slow afro-reggae-boggie feel over it I really like. Check out the other mash-ups too, I'm sure you can recognise some songs in there.
Pink Project - Disco Project
Pink Project - Voices of Independence
Pink Project - Der da da da
Pink Project - Amama
Sep 4, 2010
Sep 2, 2010
Aug 30, 2010
Aug 28, 2010
Look de Ibiza
I would have liked to experience Ibiza back in the mid-80's, sun, cocktails, naked women and good music. Two of China was apparently bringing the heat to the dancefloor with his version of Los Niños del Parque, and Sandy Marton was at his highest with his well named hit, People from Ibiza. Really good dancefloor classics.
Two of China - Los niños del Parque (Corrida mix)
Sandy Marton - People from Ibiza
The original version of Los niños del Parque was made by the german electropunk band Liasons Dangereuses in 1981. It became an underground hit, and many 80's Chicago house and Detroit techno artists saw it as a big musical influence. Truely pioneers with their style and the song is by far the best version.
Liasons Dangereuses - Los niños del Parque
Aug 18, 2010
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