Babylone - Shalom and Salem

France 1977.

Jean Giraud aka Moebius Art

Skatebård - Vuelo

This 1st album by Skatebaard in 2008 was composed for us to experience a sonic adventure…  far away from Earth.
Just choose your time and place, let’s lift off!

Skatebård - Kosmos

Including old efficient releases like “Vuelo” or “June Nights South Of Siena” it’s even going higher with new tracks with various influences from balearic or techno to old school house or electro. For example this following may be the dark side:

Skatebård - Into The Crypt Of Rays

Inspired by this April’s post from Jussi of Steve Bender’s storming 1978 Good Lovin’, Good Feelin’ track, I dug out the We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place album where it’s from and chose the title track. It is of course a cover of The Animals sixties classic. What I love about this song is the way it retains the dramatic Eric Burden vocal style delivery even when it’s been filtered through the magic Munich disco machine.

I have only just discovered that the late Steve Bender (he sadly died of  cancer in 2006) was also in one of my favourite seventies over the top teutonic disco outfits Dschinghis Khan who were in the grand tradition of  70s disco cash-ins formed as Germany’s entry to the 1979 Eurovision Contest but went on to have world-wide success before falling down the memory hole; only to be revived by the power of Youtube as a result of their wonderful Moskau song from their debut album (with an equally wonderful cover). Anyway, I will dig out the album and post some choice Dschinghis Khan at some point soon! In the meantime, if you have not already experienced the singular pleasure of the Moskau track here it is sung both in English and German. We are good to you!

Steve Bender - We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place [1978]

Sorry for the odd vinyl crackle, it is the only copy I have

I also noticed that fellow contributor Kundalini posted a 12 inch instrumental version of another track from this album called The Final Thing back in 2008 and it is well worth a listen.

Strada - It’s The Monkey (1984)

Coming up this Friday: the first hour of The Robot Scientists’ live at Magnet/Comet Club, exclusively for the webradio, in place of the regular Spaced Out Disco Session. Beware, no MP3 copy afterwards this time!

Anneli Pasanen - Auringonmaa

“Auringonmaa” is Finnish and means Landofthesun, written for some reason as a single word. This 1977 track stomps foward from the Y Viva Espana school of cheap package holiday exotica, with lyrics about getting swept away under the sun. I can’t locate the present whereabouts of this vocalist, I just HAVE to get her to perform the song live over the track before I’m thru.

Cori Josias - Takin’ It Straight (Dub) (1983)

Lots of new tracks to be added to the webradio database tomorrow night.

Hana + Dana + ORM - Autumn Leaves (Okay Edit) (1982/2010) (± 7′30”, VBR max, right click to save)

The ORM duo (Petr and Pavel are not brothers, despite what most people say) also did that. According to their biography, they now own a psytrance (sic!) record label, funny.

Missa Disco - Credo

Against all odds, this 1978 French/German mock-ecclestical mongrel gets down, with screeching brass and an accelerating sense of hysteria. Handy during your next exorcism or while performing vile solo acts with a crucifix, and subsequent bouts of self-flagellation.

In my last Guido and Maurizio De Angelis post I mentioned a rare 1983 12 inch single released on the German Kangaroo Team Records label with the title Black Inferno. It features two tracks which were taken from the soundtrack the brothers did for the 1983 Ruggero Deodato film I predatori di Atlantide (known alternatively as Atlantis Interceptors or Atlantis Inferno).

I have yet to see the film myself but the basic plot seems to revolve around a team of scientists who discover an ancient Atlantean artefact while raising a submarine from the ocean floor. In the process of it’s recovery they somehow bring about the re-emergence of Atlantis which in turn triggers a giant tsunami, destroying most of civilisation except of course for the mandatory b-movie “small band of survivors“!

The twist seems to be the fact that the Atlanteans far from being a benevolent race of advanced spirtual entities are in fact a group of blood thirsty rampaging rambo types hell bent on wiping out what is left of humanity!

Anyway, this is not a film blog so on with the music! I have not been able to ever locate a copy of this 12 inch and as it has never been re-released or on any compilation or bootleg (as far as I know) this is the best rip I can find.

The music is really special in my opinion, a wonderful blend of seventies vocal based Italian progressive rock elements fused with the melodic groove of early eighties Italo-disco and synth-pop. I hope the two tracks inspire one or two Overfitting Disco contributors to join in the hunt for this ultra-rare release.

Black Inferno - Black Inferno [1983]

Black Inferno - Black Inferno (Instrumental) [1983]

Bernard Estardy and his magic synthesizers.

Sexy Soxy - Million Dollar Melody (1982)

And yes, the pressing sounds that muffled. It doesn’t appear to be specific to this record, that’s really a shame.

And yes, it’s maybe not worth one million dollars but it’s yet another one hundred euro track programmed in the webradio for your listening pleasure.

Minx -Zanzibar

Germany 1978.

Traditional? Real? Authentic? What label communicates what we all perceive about culturally themed music and visual arts? Certainly we have a sliding scale based on our experiences but there is definitely a factor that makes a place like seen above (and the music heard in the background) feel like the real thing.