Let's break out the booze
Seeing as my record bag is getting increasingly filled with disco nuggets, here's some new shit i've been getting down to....
I hadn't heard of the Bear Funk label until I ended up on their email promo list... but it seems they've been doing the Scandinavian disco thing since 2003, with a little help from the likes of Lindstrom, Prins Thomas, Todd Terje & the Idjut Boys. Latest single is from The Diaphanoids, and sounds like the theme to Tomorrow's World 2012.
THE DIAPHANOIDS - WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT WITH US EARTHLINGS
If you like what you hear, check out the forthcoming double mix CD 'Rools for Rules'. The sleeve is a little shonky, but the music is delicious.
Another Scandinavian label i've recently discovered is Prins Thomas' 'Full Pupp'... itself some kind of offshoot of Bear Funk / Bear Entertainment. I'm loving the new single by Blackbelt Andersen, a chugging number with a deep acid line running through it. Kind of reminiscent of Laurent Garnier's 'Acid Eiffel'. Synths, bongos, 303's. What more does man need? A Prins Thomas remix?
BLACKBELT ANDERSEN - SIRUP
On a slightly harder note, the new album by Zombie Zombie has got people talking. The album opener gives a taste of what to expect.. disco-tinged krautrock rhythms with horror soundtrack sound effects & reverberating strings creating an overriding feeling of suspense.
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE - DRIVING THIS ROAD UNTIL DEATH SETS YOU FREE
Without knowing anything about the fella, this CD was probably the least promising that arrived through the door last week...
I just had a vague sensation that Kid Creole & the Coconuts dressed funny & weren't very good. But flipping it over I noticed it was on the Strut label (now home to the Disco not Disco series amongst other great compilations), and thought i'd give it a blast. Well the first few tracks left me rather uninspired, but suddenly on track 4 my ears pricked up with a deranged polka (?) beat and the line 'I remember when I was a little girl, my mother set the house on fire. She was like that'. The rest of the track is compelling stuff... something you can imagine Edith Piaf producing while stumbling home from Studio 54.
CRISTINA - IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
I was then delighted to hear a couple of tracks later the original version of something that i've been frequently playing from the Betty Botox 'G4 Faggot' LP.
The original suffers slightly after becoming familiar with Optimo's magnificent re-edit, but is still undeniably brilliant nonsense. Just give it a listen......
DON ARMANDO'S SECOND AVENUE RHUMBA BAND - I'M AN INDIAN TOO
There's plenty more to enjoy on the album as well.... and it's a nice accompaniment to the 'Compass Point' compilation that Strut have also just released. Perhaps i'll post some tracks from that next time....?
I hadn't heard of the Bear Funk label until I ended up on their email promo list... but it seems they've been doing the Scandinavian disco thing since 2003, with a little help from the likes of Lindstrom, Prins Thomas, Todd Terje & the Idjut Boys. Latest single is from The Diaphanoids, and sounds like the theme to Tomorrow's World 2012.
THE DIAPHANOIDS - WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT WITH US EARTHLINGS
If you like what you hear, check out the forthcoming double mix CD 'Rools for Rules'. The sleeve is a little shonky, but the music is delicious.
Another Scandinavian label i've recently discovered is Prins Thomas' 'Full Pupp'... itself some kind of offshoot of Bear Funk / Bear Entertainment. I'm loving the new single by Blackbelt Andersen, a chugging number with a deep acid line running through it. Kind of reminiscent of Laurent Garnier's 'Acid Eiffel'. Synths, bongos, 303's. What more does man need? A Prins Thomas remix?
BLACKBELT ANDERSEN - SIRUP
On a slightly harder note, the new album by Zombie Zombie has got people talking. The album opener gives a taste of what to expect.. disco-tinged krautrock rhythms with horror soundtrack sound effects & reverberating strings creating an overriding feeling of suspense.
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE - DRIVING THIS ROAD UNTIL DEATH SETS YOU FREE
Without knowing anything about the fella, this CD was probably the least promising that arrived through the door last week...
I just had a vague sensation that Kid Creole & the Coconuts dressed funny & weren't very good. But flipping it over I noticed it was on the Strut label (now home to the Disco not Disco series amongst other great compilations), and thought i'd give it a blast. Well the first few tracks left me rather uninspired, but suddenly on track 4 my ears pricked up with a deranged polka (?) beat and the line 'I remember when I was a little girl, my mother set the house on fire. She was like that'. The rest of the track is compelling stuff... something you can imagine Edith Piaf producing while stumbling home from Studio 54.
CRISTINA - IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
I was then delighted to hear a couple of tracks later the original version of something that i've been frequently playing from the Betty Botox 'G4 Faggot' LP.
The original suffers slightly after becoming familiar with Optimo's magnificent re-edit, but is still undeniably brilliant nonsense. Just give it a listen......
DON ARMANDO'S SECOND AVENUE RHUMBA BAND - I'M AN INDIAN TOO
There's plenty more to enjoy on the album as well.... and it's a nice accompaniment to the 'Compass Point' compilation that Strut have also just released. Perhaps i'll post some tracks from that next time....?
posted by headphonesex @ 12:25 AM
