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Emergency! Paging Dr. Beat!

By Matthew Rutledge on 02/03/2010

I finally got around to creat­ing a new mixtape — one that I have actu­ally planned off and on for over a year now. I didn’t exactly put much thought into it, at least not compared to some previ­ous efforts. But it’s still a good repres­ent­a­tion of disco, italo disco, new wave, indus­trial, free­style and soph­is­tidisco. You may as well just listen to it inside the blog post window:

Posted in Mixtape | Tagged Disco, freestyle, industrial, italo disco, Mixtape, MP3, new wave, playlist | 1 Response

Direct connection

By Matthew Rutledge on 12/06/2009

While the previ­ous video was more of an internal self-promotion video for WFAA in Dallas, this video was a major ad campaign used during junc­tions and station breaks for Philadelphia’s KYW-TV. It is simply stun­ning — these promos have a futur­istic, whim­sical, avant-garde tenor paired with a bit of psyche­delia. It might be the closest TV ever came to produ­cing some­thing obvi­ously influ­enced by cocaine.

Click to play:

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Trudy Haynes is my favor­ite. “I’m your direct connec­tion… to ..read more

Posted in Cultural Ephemera, video | Tagged 1979, Disco, marketing, philadelphia, promo, TV, video | Leave a response

Disco Future / Disco Past

By Matthew Rutledge on 11/24/2009

I’ve been on a big Donna Summer kick lately, paying harder atten­tion to over­looked gems stuck in the middle of her ‘clas­sic’ albums. There was a time in musical history where the vanguard was the main­stream, where the biggest star was also part of the biggest paradigm shift in popu­lar music, and the story was writ­ten by Summer and Moroder.

It of course began with “I Feel Love”, but there are a number of magni­fi­cent tracks from the same era ..read more

Posted in Disco, Music | Tagged Disco, donna summer, electro-disco, electronic music, giorgio moroder, MP3 | 1 Response

How to pick up girls? LEARN TO DANCE. How to pick up girls? LEARN TO DANCE.

By Matthew Rutledge on 09/17/2009

Bobby Orlando is three things: a homo­phobe, a miso­gyn­ist, and a great one-trick pony. His songs all sound the same, but his trick is an amaz­ing one — it is an insist­ent, fun, driv­ing synth beat that ties the line between disco and techno while never, never forget­ting that pop is the name of the game.

Nothing gets me in the mood to dance like these songs — they are so good at what they do that even at 2AM in ..read more

Posted in Disco, Music | Tagged bobby O, bobby orlando, dance, Disco, italo disco, Mixtape, MP3, Music, synthpop | Leave a response

I’m your direct connection … to the boob tube.

By Matthew Rutledge on 07/01/2009

What I am about to show you is bril­liant, in and of itself. It manages to make Philadelphia seem like one gigantic fire hydrant set loose, this weird combin­a­tion of hip, informed, dramatic and coy at the same time.

However, this is just the song KYW-TV used for their Direct Connection promo spots, which aired from 1979–1980. The back­ground images are the same ones used during the actual commer­cials, but the foot­age of the commer­cials them­selves have been taken off ..read more

Posted in Cultural Ephemera, Disco | Tagged 1979, continuity, direct connection, Disco, KYW, Music, philadelphia, video | Leave a response

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