Here's a re-edit of jazz-funk organist Ronnie Fosters 1978 trip on a percussion-fueled boogie airplane which apparently crash-landed in Copenhagen, got picked up by local digger Jens Dahl and re-built into a working machine, ready to fly again.
My buddy Jens Dahl Thomsen is coming over from Copenhagen on saturday to play some quality boogie & sleeze, as the flyer states we’ll be taking it to THE MAX over at Far i Hatten (Folkets Park) from 22:00 to 01:00. Check us OUT! The flyer/club is a hommage to the electronic funk group Xavier and their hit Do It To The Max from 1983, where in the video this matchbox reveals that they're all actually hanging out at a hip joint called The Max.
SATURDAY: 22-00 CITY: MALMÖ FAR I HATTEN: FREE ENTRANCE MUSIC: YES, PLENTY!
"Come on everybody - and dance the techno disco". The first release on spanish label Blanco Y Negro was this single by the Barcelona-based italo-outfit Jules Tropicana. Jules Bikoko of Cameroon (seen on the cover) who was 1/3 of the group delivered some of the most undermixed vocals in the history of dance music on this track. It' always fun to play this to someone and see them concentrating on making out what he's actually singing. But the wonderfully unenthusiastic cheer-on to come on and "dance the techno disco" lends quite a lot of charm to his otherwise monotonous performance. This is a slowed down version for your listening pleasure.
Tonight I'm playing in Stockholm again, at the Mejan christmas party (Mejan is what they call their royal art academy here) which is held at Färgfabriken this year. Rumour has it that these parties are anticipated highlights of the year for Stockholmers (like a Labor Day Run is for the North American Outlaw). In any large city with a metropolis complex, art is the great unifier of the classes (well, between the middle and upper ones mostly), and their differences are put aside for one night in the name of good fun. If you're in town, it's a safe bet for some action.
Me on one floor and the Rollerboys on the other floor, bound to get heavy. And if you come by early on (to beat standing in line) you can hear my buddy Gabriel warming up the turntables.
And here's a new mix to light your pants on fire with....
Bagen was a hip MTV-style show on swedish public service TV in the mid-1980's, hosted by the ever so charismatic Cia Berg (front figure in the band Ubangi and later on in the 90's band Whale), check out a collage of some of Cias "looks" during the different shows here.
One of the features of the show except to supply the latest music videos of the time was a segment called Freak Out, where Stockholm B-boy Karl Dyall would give informative examples of breaking, locking and making fun of asians (no kidding, just check out his opening act in thisclip!).
SVT also managed to put out this amazing record of some of the music that was made exclusively for the show, most of it produced by the prolific former prog-rocker Coste Apetrea. There's plenty of good stuff in the way of electro and boogie, and the Mikael Rickfors track is a cool and dark piece that could stand to be compared with some of Angela Werners best stuff.
One noteble track is also the CCC version of Kool Katt, the cheesy rap-boogie hit by the group STOP (there's a nice edit of the original out there by our Norwegian neighbour Rune Lindbaek). This version on the other hand tones down on the cheese and adds more ice in the way of L.A.-electro style drum machines. Oh and the record comes with an instructional poster on how to breakdance and do the electric boogie.
Another killer cut from our guy in Dublin, mister Niall Kirk. So what's on the plate? Lots of space for those drums to pierce through - and they certainly do - and a healthy dose of shenanigans over at the synthesizer to take the edge off the otherwise overwhelming coolness.
Not sure if this is a rework of a John Travolta track as the title would suggest (how about it Niall?), but anyway you get a picture of his crotch cirka 1978 just for good measure.
Update! The Amen Brother Disco Band will see it's first vinyl release soon, featuring this hot track, therefore we're switching the download link to a Souncloud-preview, yank! Great news Niall and god bless your groovy fingers!
Take a look at this dude. He's all suave and hairy, apparently shirtless and possibly totally nude when this picture was taken. His eyes show a certain determination, located just under that vague uni-brow. Is he handsome? Well no, not really. But somehow he posesses a sleezy charisma that somehow rubbed off on the music this guy laid down back in 1978. The lyrics, which are a bold mix between swedish and english (or "swenglish" as it is called), reads like a compilation list of useful pickup-lines at any bar in Stockholm during the late 1970's.
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