Wednesday, August 15, 2007  3:14 pm 

Science Fiction Double Feature

That crazy sound from the 70’s/80’s, Space Disco (or Cosmic as it is mostly known) is coming on in leaps and bounds with many artists championing vintage synthesizers (or vintage synth plug-ins for Ableton maybe) and setting course for the nearest milkyway. Lo Recordings are releasing ‘Milky Disco’ in September, a collection of comets and moonbeams compiled by Jon Tye featuring Quiet Village, Lindstrom, Padded Cell, Studio and loads more plus these kids:

Sally Shapiro (see artist’s impression above) cruises atop a sleek black 60’s designer chair, slipping effortlessly into our solar space with her glittery-nailed fingers gliding across the synth keys like techno butterflies unferling out some hypnotic binary melodies.

These melodies are picked up by chief italo-science officer Johan Agebjorn with his sophisticated Spacial Disco Monitoring Satellites. Like any good self-respecting cosmic loving Scandinavian knows, when a Martian beauty calls from beyond the stars and tells of tales of little green men and their warrior woman queen getting down and dirty at the discotheque, you just have to stop what your doing and listen. So he harnesses these harmonic calls, filters them through vocoders and bassbins made of pinball machines and Space Invader arcade games to create this sweet sci-fi lullaby of Mars queen and italo-robot vocodo-b-boy.

Johan Agebjörn - Spacer Woman From Mars (feat. Sally Shapiro)

Flash forward a couple of hundred years and all those weird cyberpunk anime films you saw as a kid with their dystopian warnings of automated metropolises saturated in poisonous clouds of pollution have turned out to be true.

Jersey Devil Social Club - Child 13

As bullet trains coil around the skyscrapers on gleaming skyway tracks, the cybernetic denizens of the grimy shadowy underworld of these seemingly perfect cities are plotting against the rich and elite. They make their war theme tunes from shattered keytars, cracked old italo holovinyls and rusted and long forgotten Nintendo Wii consoles. R2D2, now old and very senile, jabbers away for percussion. Vocoder units were fitted as standard by 2310 but these guys now sing like poor pervs lamenting over a sex crime. They advance on the city and spontaneous dancing can be seen amongst the flames.

labels >> Cosmic, disco, electro, italo, satellites