Sandra is my former Lover

Most recently I was referred to this vid by Art. My jeans were tighter for sure after watching that. In the same vein of 80's excellence but not as italo, is Sandra. Similar vocal impressions as Sabrina, but less uber-dancy. Now that spring has sprung in Chicago, these will be the jams for this weekend year.

Sandra - Maria Magdalena



and
Sandra - In the Heat of the Night



While reading an f'book post on TNUC's wall, this guy posted a link about this Finnish goth rock group (To Die For) who did a cover:


And after these tracks, take the Ralph Wiggum quiz...

Videopop Mirror

So I basically just bamboozled a bunch of Italo off of Videopop. It's fantastic. I'm not feeling very inventive, but I am feeling dancy (how is that different from any other time?) One of these days I'm going to DJ an Italo party and Beth is going to have the biggest, baddest hair of them all. Damn! MMM mmm! Money. MMM mmm!

Angie Gold - Don't Talk to Strangers

Katy Gray - Hold Me Tight


Al Corley - Cold Dresses

Al Corley - Square Rooms

This guy's voice sounds like the typical 80's Depeche Mode style that I love. I think this stuff is turning more into pop than the Italo stuff that I know. Obviously I'm ok with that.

And how about that, more fag jams. Did I tell you that a guy kissed me (on the cheek) at Smartbar? Why! Unlike Greg, I don't think that I'm 80% board 30% boardwalk crosser. Just because I wear 80's Calvin Klein attire shouldn't make me a target for the boys in the hood.

Ok, so while listening to Futurecop right now I can't help but be reminded of this prior video. It's excellent.

Futurecop! - Eyes Like The Ocean

Phoenix or Redemption

History by Robotnick

Simply fantastic. I posted this mix before, but I'll do it again here as a reminder of how great it is. Before Alexander Robotnick went on last night at Sono, I didn't really know the songs that were being played, nor did I really dig them. Then he came on. Night. and. day. He killed it with Fun Fun, but when I opened up my eyes, the only person dancing was me. I felt like I was at home playing a set, but with ridiculously loud speakers and more people. So much fun.

By the way, this is a song I heard last night and is on my list of stuff to find that I kind of found, but apparently this is the original version and there is a newer edit except I don't know who it's by or where to get it. To all 2 people who read this blog, if you know what I'm talking about, let me know!

Gino Soccio - I Will Remember (Original)

I discovered this song from "Erol Alkan Live On Radio 1, September 2006" in iTunes for podcasts. (how do you do an iTunes html link?) It should be the 2nd to last track, with the last track being Erol's remix of 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing'. Right now the bearing for the tone arm on my MKII is being lame. Otherwise I'd do the LP rip. Maybe I should hook up the spare...?

What was that about Italo?

More stuff not to ignore. You've probably heard the back beat or the first minute mixed many a time:

Giorgio Moroder - I Want to Rock You

And why don't I have this album?

Glass Candy - Digital Versacolor

And I was going to link to the youtube Italo megamix, but it got taken down. That thing had the original videos and songs mixed together! Oh man. Fun Fun and the girl from Radiorama are so hot! Follow this link for another Italo mix series.


Did Fun Fun switch the girls in the videos? Look at this one for Colour My Love and this one for Happy Station and tell me they didn't do a swap?



No 90's revival yet please... I'm not done yet with this stuff!

I love this guy.

Goofy!



and because I actually want that stuff and I've got too much time on a tuesday, go ahead and put this stuff in Excel:

[Fuzz] Records, Zed - Plastic Love, Booby trap, Mya - & the mirror, Alexander Robotnick - C'est la Vie, Danser! naif orchestra, Gina & The Flexix - I wanna believe, Il Generale, Ludus, Anski? - Stupefacente, Living On Video - Trans-X (Digital World), Boys next Door - Lady of the Night (Louisa), Cliff Turner - Moonlight Affair, Time, Stop Jap ...The Stalin, Lärm - Campaign for musical destruction, I Pofondo? Rosso, Kraftwerk - I'm the operator of my pocket calculator, B.G.K. - Jonestown Aloha!, Nervebreakers, Nipdrivers, Phantasm - You're Already Dead (Blood Stained), Greenskeepers, Silent Circle - Stop The Rain [Koda], Tea ês - Captain Terra X (24 More Hours), Kirlian Camera - Blue Room, Maro Fruttero - Fairyland, Kylie Minogue - The One, Modem - Your Fux, Phil Sun - Danse? on the ___, Rockets - Galaxy, [Flash] Records?, Easy Going, New Romantique - Amy Like An Angel, Joy - Hello, Why are you hurtin' me so much, Paul Rutherford, Atlas - UFO Robot, Francesco Salvi - C'e Da spostane? una macchina, Unit4, Magic fly - Space, Menergy, Giorgio Moroder, John Carpenter, Harry Thumann - Underwater, Laser Dance, fizz, Lugio Battisti, EvitaEvitaEvita, Ken Laszlo, The B52's ?, Magic Fly, Passion, C 365, Spatla Disco 2008, Superb Super Pop Session #2, Star Peace - Droids, Black Devil

and another winner by him sans le danse,



If you're in Chicago, the only two places I know of to get stuff like this is Grammaphone and Hot Jams. Hot Jams is ridiculously under the radar with north side folk. Go down Archer already! Oh by the way, Robotnick is coming to Sonotheque on 10Oct. Yes. Last times when I saw him at RedNo and the warehouse party near the river and belmont/elston killed. I don't think people are into Italo as much as I am, but people were really going for it with him.

Dancing with Rome

I got this email from Strut Records the other day with them touting a new compilation of Italo that they have, called Disco Italia. Two of the songs they have videos for are:

Kano - Queen of Witches (Youtube)
La Bionda - i Want to be your Lover:

The video reminds me of the animation style of Mstrkrft - Work on You

Stumbling off the Italo stuff, they always tend to point to Front 242 or Nitzer Ebb or similar folk.

Front 242 - Headhunter:


Nitzer Ebb - Control I'm Here:


Two things I read over the weekend that are slightly depressing: Adbuster's review of hipster culture and the Reader's (old) review of retro trends. I'll write my own treatise later. In the meantime, get some sleep and do a detox diet. It helps your brain.

Old Mix

I just heard an old mix CD of mine. It was pretty good. So good, that you should have this song in case you don't. And if you don't, get the album. It's good too, no matter what pitchfork says (about anything).

MGMT - Time to Pretend Video.

There was also this song which is a winner. I had to edit it a little because it was too damn long because it's so damn 80's Italo.

Fun Fun - Happy Station