Icon: Maurizio Dami (aka Alexander Robotnick)
An italo dark disco god. Fantastic interview filmed at NYC/Brooklyn's own Turntable Labs.
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An italo dark disco god. Fantastic interview filmed at NYC/Brooklyn's own Turntable Labs.
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German EBM (Electronic Body Music) pioneers, Liaisons Dangereuses are goin' for it full throttle on this track. This particular live version was filmed in Manchester in 1982. Acid synthlines abound, making this track a landmark Chicago/Detroit precursor. iSpy my favorite synth duo the Korg MS-20 and MS-50.
Synth goddess and band co-founder Beate Bartel was also one of the original members of the avant-garde band Einstürzende Neubauten. This next live version was filmed at a music festival in Düsseldorf. Check out pink hair at 1:21!!
For comparison purposes, I've also included a still frame video for the 12" version.
Check out Google's mini-moog emulator in honor of what would have been Robert Moog's 78th birthday! Adjustable filters, modulation control, four-track recording. How awesome!
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Then the French said, "Let there be dark disco." And it was really, really good.
Right?! 1975. Whoa.
As a music genealogist, moments where new musical (sub)genres are born are pretty much the stuff of dreams.
Within this span of 84 seconds, from an offbeat library (ie music snippets) album "The Strange World of Bernard Fevre," foundations are laid for the deepest, darkest, most esoteric disco album ever made, Black Devil's"Disco Club" in 1978.
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Leon Theramin, electronic music pioneer and russian spy. Awesome.
Great article in the BBC yesterday.
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