http://overfitted.ddcr.biz Electronic music with an emphasis on everything with a steady Disco beat. From obscure 70's soundtracks to not-yet-released 4/4 smashers. This blog is Disco 2.0 compliant. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:43:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was speaking with DJ friend Guglielmo Mascio about this, and I have to thank him for making me remind how great this track is! Vinyl karma is strange, though, as yesterday I went to the flea market, where I almost fainted seeing the italian issue of this ultra rare ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6991 Jussi Kantonen - Funky Lady Mix At first I thought to post B.S. Corporation's Funky Lady like a regular entry here. But as it's such an extraordinary track it has to be heard the way it was originally meant to be presented, in a mix. So here goes, recorded way ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6980 Thanks to Waxidermy & The Growing Bin blogs for bringing this album to my attention. Released in 1980, René Roussel's Rubriques on the French Editions Montparnasse 2000 record label is the sound of the future all the way from 1980. After listening to the tracks, my immediate thought was, where ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6955 Video Dance Orchestra - Spring Dance No3 Synth skronks made in France, 1980. ‘If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.’ -Yogi Berra. Related postsDance MusicFlipper DanceJungle Dance http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6964 The Robot Scientists - The Spaced Out Disco Session - September 2010 The first hour of The Robot Scientists' DJ set at Magnet/Comet Club, August 20, 2010. Related postsThe Spaced Out Disco Session August 2010The Spaced Out Disco Session - February 2010The Spaced Out Disco Session - May 2010 http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6950 The Wonderland Disco Band AKA The Wonderland Band were a short lived commerical novelty disco project by Morrie Brown and a flagrant cash-in in on the late 70s comic super-hero phenomenon. Speaking personally, I am really glad they jumped on the disco band-wagon as they left us with some amazing spaced out tracks including ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6928 Sonoko - Souvenier de la Mer Belgium 1987. Full name of the artiste is Sonoko Yasuda. Related postsDancing In The MoonlightEclipse Line http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6924 Phillippe Laurent - Exposition Partie 5 (1983) Taken from this compilation. It appears that the original recording (like most minimal wave-ish stuff from this period) was only available on home-made cassettes, it also means that longer versions are most likely forever lost if they ever existed. Related postsAlpha And OmegaYelloPocket Angel Leftside ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6913 Tonic - Dancing In The Moonlight (1980) Bouncy, unpretentious... and Belgian. Sold for as low as €0.5 on the Net. Thanks to Antoine Bonan from Belgium for the hints. Related postsBabla’s Disco Dancing Theme(Got My) Dancing Shoesremembering amnesia http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6906 Francis Goya is first and foremost a classically trained guitarist but like many artists during the seventies, the urge to go disco was clearly overwhelming and along with Bart Van De Laar formed Discothèque in 1979. They produced a series of Stars On 45 style disco medleys including an album ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6884 One thing I can thank the rise of music blogs and websites for is the exposure to sounds and artists I probably would otherwise have never heard in my lifetime. As an English person, this is especially true of both communist era and post-communist Eastern European/Russian music and in recent ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6824 Babylone - Shalom and Salem France 1977. Related postsGloriaSaturne EA1Tonight The Night http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6854 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 ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6768 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! Related postsThe Spaced Out Disco Session - September 2010The Robot Scientists ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6762 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 ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6753 Cori Josias - Takin' It Straight (Dub) (1983) Lots of new tracks to be added to the webradio database tomorrow night. Related postsMusica Da Batticuore Retrospective - Fri. Jan. 1, 20:00 UTCMassiera’s Hold UpNon Rompere http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6746 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. Related postsDiscofilBrothersCCCP Aerobics http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6672 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. Related postsKim Harlow - Allò ReseauGrendizer ThemesI Vicini di Casa ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6730 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 ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6713 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 ... http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/?p=6716