Thursday, October 26, 2006  10:00 pm 

Discoball with 666 carved on it

The resurfacing of Space Disco in the last couple of years didn’t really come as much of a suprise for this Italo obssessed 20Jazzkateer. We had electro and synthpop, then acid, (i’m ignoring Neu Rave) so its obvious that another form of dance music from yesteryear would be wheeled back in. Figurehead Lindstrom is thought of as a kind of king of the genre with ‘I Feel Space’ and countless epic nebulan remixes of the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Chicken Lips, Franz Ferdinand etc… A collection of 12″ releases from 2003-2006 is now available as ‘The Feedelity Affair’.

Lindstrom - Cane It For The Original Whities

‘Cane It For The Original Whities’ first came out on the ‘There’s A Drink In My Bedroom And I Need A Hot Lady’ 12″ EP.

If The Emperor Machine are the spacemen in Forbidden Planet spacesuits riding they’re retro rocket to Neptune, then Lindstrom is the shining white celestial being that they meet there. He bequiths them some whirling stardust synth samples for their next LP, and he spins them the above track to demonstrate how to masterfully construct a killer driving bassline. But, like us, The Emperor Machine think that he’s just been listening to ‘Losing My Edge’ and taking notes, so they say “we are doing fine on our own, but thanks for the samples oh great alien being”, and jet off back home with the shuffling synthesised flourishes of ‘Cane It…’ still ringing in their ears.

Where there is good there will always be evil, so said some 80’s movie, probably The Neverending Story or Legend or something like that, and this is indeed true. Back in 2004 you couldn’t dance in a half descent disco without Satan whispering in your ear over a bongo-assisted hi hat beat. Rephlex had unearthed Black Devil’s ‘Disco Club’, a lost late 70’s Italo masterpiece, much like that archeological dig had unearthed Lucifer at the start of The Exorcist. Poor Reagan, if it weren’t for those pesky archaeologists…

Black Devil - Constantly No Respect

Yeah, but this is new! They’ve followed it up - or have they? Its new or is it just new unearthed old, dunno. Lo Recordings are apparently in league with Lucifer on this one. Not a million miles away from the original 1978 release, ‘Constantly No Respect’ echoes the same tape looping and real drums set-up with sinewy horn blasts that Zombi would dig for sure.

The greatest trick the Devil could play was convincing the world he does not exist, so be careful when listening back sinners (yes you are indeed sinners, you’ve just downloaded an illegal track by the Devil himself and he doesn’t give a flying flaming-nun about whether the power of Christ compelled you or if its just for test purposes only!)

Your all going to Hell, we’ll see you there.

XXX UPDATE XXX

12″ EP ‘28 After’ available monday - cross Satan’s palm with silver here

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