Dance to the Beat - Starflight

Dance to the Beat - Starflight

Prepare for a journey to the outer limits. Been getting together some tracks for upcoming podcasts and am feeling like exploring outer space. Here is a great one from Starflight that makes me want to pop lock or something. This was B-Side to their cover of Gino Soccio's "Dancer." BMC Records released this in 1984, be sure to check out some of their other releases for a nice array of disco.



Dance to the Beat - Starflight (download)

Dancer - Gino Soccio (download)

Starbow - Voyager II

AVI Records launched this Canadian disco in 1978 by Starbow. Voyager II is a funky ride through the cosmos, named after the American unmanned probe that launched in 1977, the first to visit Neptune and Uranus.

Funny thing about this song is that it was produced by Daniel Vangarde (Daniel Bangalter) the father of Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk fame. Daft Punk produced a killer track with a very similar title. I guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. Vangarde was busy in the 70s and 80s doing a lot of work with disco super label Carrere so its easy to see what a tremendous influence he was on his son. All very fun stuff.


Daft Punk - Voyager

Starbow - Voyager II (download)

Italobot podcast 04 : Little Cella's First Italo

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Italobot podcast 04 : Little Cella's First Italo
01. Stop Fantasy - Plus Two -
02. Play the Game - Cool Runners
03. Glow of Love - change
04. Cybernetic Love - Casco
05. I'm Ready - Kano
06. Collision - sphinx
07. Shari Vari - Number of Names
08. Love Again (remix) - Savage


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Just a quick mix of some great tunes dedicated to my newborn baby girl. Enjoy!

Droids - The Force

Droids - The Force

More space disco from Germany circa 1977.

"Fabrice Cuitade was a young label manager at Barclay in the seventies. He founds Egg Records as a side project with a view to compete with Virgin (first artist signings include Heldon among others). Right after seeing "Star Wars" for the first time, he decided to make a concept album out of it." (from discogs.com)

And here's more space disco from Space who I featured earlier.

Ganymed

Ganymed - It Takes Me Higher
Germany, 1978.

These guys are funky! They even have there code names.

Rudolf Mille a.k.a. Vendd
Gerhard Messinger a.k.a. Izl
Ernst Nekola a.k.a. Cak
Daniele Prencipe a.k.a. Suk
Yvonne Dory a.k.a. Pulsaria
Gerry Edmond a.k.a. Kroonk

Ganymed is the name of an asteroid, a poem by Geothe (adapted by Schubert) and Ganymede was a Trojan hero who was transformed by Zeus into the cupbearer of the Gods. In addition Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter discovered and named by Galileo Galilei.



Ganymed - It Takes Me Higher (download)

Space and Space Disco

Space is a French disco group that predates the Italo dance scene but embodies much of the sci-fi element that encompassed part of the themes that made up the Space Disco movement. This sound is still so relevant and watching this video you can see where Daft Punk got some of their ideas. And they are a rarity amongst their contemporaries because they actually have a web presence. The video is cosmically trippy too!



For some more Space Disco fun check out Rockets. They have a wealth of great spaced out videos from the earlier 80s. Its so hard to choose the best one!