Tuesday, November 6, 2007  1:15 am 

Cloud

Reissues are about as common nowadays as a purple American Apparel hoodie on a skinny indie kid. The Cloud label are putting out some of the best in 20JFG’s humble opinion, releasing two-track 12″s of hot cosmic disco and balearic love, while the parent company, Supersound, puts out the disco stomps and italian fine tailored dance.

Claude Larson - 64k RAM

In ‘64k RAM’ Claude Larson freaks you slow with a low slung baseline but then shocks your ears with squirting synths in the shape of Elizabethan baroque strings tag-teamed with Arabic beams of starlight and drum tones from far up the echoey mountains. As the peasants dance in the village square, pan pipes meld with weird little computing sounds and soar overhead.

From the yearless album, High Tech, track available on 12″ with Vangelis from Phonica.

Mark Shreeve’s 80’s-tastic zombie Converse model gives Kavinsky an (Out)run for his money, all glowing eyes, studded-leather jacket slick wavey hairdo and skinny torn jeans (probs). Nice cover art, fetching with the Satanic red glow of burning rubble, but check out the ‘Demon Headmaster’-artwork on the later release here, yoinks!

Mark Shreeve - Storm Column

‘Storm Column’ glides in on stuttering synth shards until bombastic 80’s powerdrums strike up and the Overlord rides in on a red-eyed black stallion, the backdrop a grid system from Tron, firing off lightning strikes across the land, frying those lousy do-gooders. This is from the Legion album which is this weird mix of Italo-hair metal, hear it and cry glittering blood.

12″ available from Piccadilly, b/w Max Berlin.

Venus Gang look to the stars and signal to the drone robots on the mothership to press play on the tapedeck. They press play.

Venus Gang - Love To Fly

‘Love To Fly’ is an atmospheric strut across galaxies, telling the tale of a Nubian-warrior beautie’s freefall through the stormy niteskies. Its taken from the album ‘Galactic Soul’ which sees the band formed in a spaceage Mount Rushmore pose for the cover and the tracks echo around the solar system, reverberating in black holes and spinning at 33rpm around the rings of Saturn.

Buy the 12″ from Piccadilly kids.

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We now bring you more Cosmic wonderment with a new discopodcastmixtape, made with assistance from Genuine Guy:

***I Was An Afro-Italo Robodancer in Egypt***
( 54MB - 58:58 )

Glissandro 7O - Analogue Shantytown
Hugh Masakela - The Boys Doin’ It (Carl Craig Remix)
Ectomorph - Synthesize Her
The Egyptian Lover - I Want To Make Love
Lil’ Louis & The Diamond Corp. - 7 Days Of Peace (Hallelujah Vocal Mix)
Fax The Fax - African Vacation
Venus Gang - Love To Fly
4 M International - Space Operator
Skyline - Future Jungle
Cat Stevens - Was Dog A Doughnut?
ESG - UFO
Glass Candy - Geto Boys (Demo)

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Then, be one with the stars as the mighty Lindstrom plays live backed up with Prins Thomas in a 5 hour DJ opus from Pluto:

10pm-6am, Friday 16th November @ The Key, London Kings X.
Bought to the planet by Lo Recordings and Magic & Medicine, also including Quiet Village, Padded Cell and Lo Recordings and Tirk DJ’s.

labels >> Cosmic, Venus Gang, disco, mixtape