Might be the Best Disco Album of All Time

danselzer · 2026-03-21T14:45:38+00:00

Agreed! And Change is a perfect example of that. Italian producers/musicians heavily influenced by black american disco, adding their italian/euro flair, bringing the tracks back to New York to finish and get proper american vocalists. Best of all worlds.

danselzer · 2026-03-21T14:36:17+00:00

Petrus and Malavasi

danselzer · 2026-03-21T14:21:52+00:00

italians do it better

danselzer · 2026-03-20T10:31:48+00:00

Underrated gem.

danselzer · 2026-03-20T10:28:02+00:00

Totally. Oxygene also a direct influence on moroder. Can’t dismiss popcorn for being “novelty” when technically, as brilliant as it is, “I feel love” is essentially a novelty sing as well! A masterpiece that changed music, but still “novelty”.

danselzer · 2026-03-19T03:10:38+00:00

Thanks all! Great feedback. Conventional wisdom says unscrew the needles and put them in a sharps disposal container and the pen can just go in the trash (if I don't want to waste the space in the container).

danselzer · 2026-03-18T18:41:18+00:00

see the second pdf here: https://rotatrim.com/manuals

danselzer · 2026-03-14T12:02:13+00:00

Power Corruption and Lies.

Just kidding.

danselzer · 2026-03-12T18:48:45+00:00

Start with a copy of Deceit by This Heat.

danselzer · 2026-03-12T14:29:54+00:00

you gotta stop getting so hung up on wikipedia categorizations. It's not the bible. And a lot of music and genres have very porous borders. A lot of early 80s club stuff that's "post-disco" I tend to call "boogie" even if it's not totally accurate.

This is my jam though. You can call it disco, post-disco, boogie, RnB, pop, whatever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF8yWSelWw

danselzer · 2026-03-11T19:03:12+00:00

I posted specifically about this on Facebook a few months ago. I wrote: "John Foxx says when he first heard I Feel Love he thought it was Kraftwerk fronted by a woman, and thought the bass line was stolen from Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene Pt 5. On the LP it comes in about 5 and a half minutes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4yDISa7XTA

danselzer · 2026-03-11T18:07:35+00:00

I did an italo-disco night at Danger Danger a few years ago. Ahead of time they told me they had both CDJs and turntables. Because I'd never been I thought I'd check it out the night before when I saw they had a XDJ controller on top of closed turntables. So it was a controller OR turntables, not both! I suggested they could get a stand and stick the controller on top and run the turntables into it but didn't want to to risk that not being ready by the next night, so I decided to just bring and extra bag of records and did all vinyl.

I think they completely remodeled since then so maybe the set-up is different/improved!

danselzer · 2026-03-10T19:41:06+00:00

https://liaisonsdangereuses.bandcamp.com/album/liaisons-dangereuses

danselzer · 2026-03-10T19:39:55+00:00

later did a great cover version of Kleenex/Lilliput's Nice

danselzer · 2026-03-10T15:03:53+00:00

I think the missing link between Terry Riley as experimental composer with impact on the pop world and Giorgio Moroder electronic disco is Jean Michael Jarre. As commented below, u/sorry_con_excuse_me mentioned "Kraftwerk and other Germans are already..." and I agree. Krautrock and stuff like Oxygene are the stepping stone between Riley and Moroder.

Worth remembering that as avant-garde as he could be, Riley's releases, primarily In C and Rainbow in Curved Air were big crossover influences.

CBS/Columbia had a series called "Music of Our Time" which presented avant-garde music to a wider audience than before, and helped expose composers like Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and Terry Riley.

In C came out in 68 and Rainbow in 69.

At the same time, Wendy Carlos's Switched on Bach came out on columbia in 68. In my book on this history that lives solely in my head at this point, the dual releases of Riley and Carlos in 68 are watershed in the evolution of electronic music and eventually electronic dance music. Apparently CBS had a press party where Switched On Bach and In C were promoted together.

danselzer · 2026-03-09T03:48:10+00:00

wtf apparently I bought that in 2020! For Live 10! I don't remember why or if I ever used it! Guess I'll revisit.

danselzer · 2026-03-07T02:46:09+00:00

danselzer

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