Latest "Heartache Disco"

Hello chaps. Just a quickie. In case you missed my recent show on Culture Lab Radio, you can hear it again on Mixcloud at http://www.mixcloud.com/alektronic/alektronic-presents-heartache-disco-17062011/

In fact you can hear the show before that too, if you go to http://www.mixcloud.com/alektronic

And I'll be uploading all my shows there as they happen (when I manage to record them properly, that is...)

Cheers!

Alektronic Presents : Heartache Disco : 03/05/11

Hey y'all,

Just a heads-up, if you, for some unfathomable reason, managed to miss my most recent show on Culture Lab Radio, you can listen again here:

http://www.mixcloud.com/alektronic/alektronic-presents-heartache-disco-03052011/

Enjoy!

N

Alektronic presents Heartache Disco

Start:	Nov 18, '10 6:30p
End:	Nov 18, '10 8:00p
Location:	The Internet

I will be playing some hottt Italo and electro-disco traxxx and talking nonsense for your dancing/weeping pleasure/pain this Thursday at 6.30pm on http://culturelabradio.ncl.ac.uk/

Tune in or I will officially pronounce you to be dead. x

Neon

Look, if I haven't bored you already about how bloody brilliant the new Neon Neon album is then you better brace yourself...

Anyway, in preperation for the inevitable barrage of over-enthusiasm, feast thy ears upon this Pitchfork gem, a mix by Boom Bip, cataloguing the influences behind 'Stainless Style'. Essential stuff.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/47233-neon-neon-mixtape-mp3

Crying On The Dancefloor

Credits due to the Venerable Count for pointing me to the latest essential mix from Sally Shapiro mastermind Johan Agebjörn

"Someone I love turned me down,
I didn't feel my head touch the ground,
Someone I love said goodbye,
I never knew someone could make me cry,
Like this"

More info and the download you need is here.

MP3 : Johan Agebjoern

I'm not the only one, it seems, to have been utterly bewitched by the lovely Swedish synth-pop princess Sally Shapiro ("
Sounds so fragile and beautiful, you half expect it to melt in your mouth." said The Guardian, "Phwoarrrr!" said a certain DJ Dod).

I'm currently anxiously awaiting the arrival of a lovely package containing a copy of her album and Rude 66-remixed single, but to keep me going until then, I've found this gem : an hour long Italo mix by her producer, Johan Agebjoern. My mental image of him as some sort of lecherous 50-year old Giorgio Moroder look-a-like could be true! All the classics are in there, as well as a couple of the aforementioned Ms. Shapiro's newies. Definitely highly recommended, despite the sleazy German DJ talking over bits of it...

Download the mix here

Sally Shapiro official site

Hypnotic...

OK, Italo fans... I know I haven't posted anything for a while, but hopefully this will make up for that sad fact...

Here for your delectation and amusement is one of my current favourite Italo tracks... it's kind of understated, but it combines the melancholy and frothy synth-pop that is critical in music of this kind. I love it!


...of course, the German introduction certainly adds a certain air to the proceedings...

ElectroFreaks

http://www.electrofreaks.com/
Discussion about hot new electro sounds

Don't Cry Tonight...

Don't you just love YouTube?



Quite possibly the best example of teary-eyed Italo Disco, and definitely the closing track to the best party..... ever!

Quite a strange video, too. I suppose every early 80s dance music video had to contain a 'futuristic' computer scenario of some sort. And lots of paranoia. Which is good.