Lifestream
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Liked The Passions - The Square.
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"Oh Detlef, Excel will only take you down." [rutlo]
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Liked Midge Ure - No Regrets.
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Liked The Passions - Sanctuary.
Disco
Emergency! Paging Dr. Beat!
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:
Direct connection
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.
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Trudy Haynes is my favorite. “I’m your direct connection… to ..read more
Disco Future / Disco Past
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
How to pick up girls? LEARN TO DANCE. How to pick up girls? LEARN TO DANCE.
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
I’m your direct connection … to the boob tube.
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