Crystals on winds from heaven

Nite Jewel hails from the stratospherical miasma that floats over, and sometimes through, the citadels of Los Angeles, covering all she touches in a shimmering film of glittering beauty that cascades in droves across the tundras of the ecotone, where chrome wolves slink along the edges of the city to snatch away stray victims, sinking silver teeth into pink flesh – the hunt bathed in yellowy green light from imposing skyscrapers. Nite Jewel is nature clashing perfectly with the dazzling lights of the sighing freeway just before dawn.

Nite Jewel – What Did He Say

“What Did He Say” is part of a new wave of Italians Do It Better releases in October (along with the “Geto Boys” 12″ and singles/rarities collection “Deep Gems” from Glass Candy, and a second “After Dark” volume).

Parallel to a brittle-bones-breaking beat, the throb from a minimal keyboard undulates phosphorous purple lining a demonic horizon. But the contradiction comes to pass once the whimsically quaaludian vocals of an angel have gleaned across the surface of your ears, puncturing atmospheres that don’t yet exist but will, once the city is perforated with the points of light that usher in the evening twilight. A cosmopolitan synth line greets the night, and all that moves falls in tune with it’s rhythm, marching hazily under giant monochrome spiders that glitch in time to the occasional scraping effect that brushes along the main refrain. The song then fractures towards the end as it rebounds off the smoothed sides of a crimson topaz cluster embedded in the street, leaving the ether in various directions, its embers burning silently to a blackened death.

Once these embers are past the pull of Earth’s gravity, they ignite once more to the beat of that magically classic year of 1984 – when packed clubs in neonic Miami, underground Italy and central Neptune danced in triple unison to delirious strutting pop that seemed to form new planets in unknown solar systems with the energy of party kids (or maybe that was just the drugs).

Fox The Fox – Precious Little Diamond (Original 12” Version)

On this classic from Fox The Fox, diamonds are the centre of attention, elevated towards the all encompassing love between a pouting lady of the chromatical nite and her funkadelic star-travelling man. As with all good italo disco, there are at least three separate melodies moving back and forth throughout the song, inexplicable but also incredibly fitting once the enraptured singing begins. There is even an afro version of low end denizen of the royal disco planet of Phobos, Alison Moyet, purring provocative messages of crystalline lust before the electro break lights white fireworks amongst the stars.