Slave-Just A Touch Of Love
Ok. So I ate myself into a coma yesterday. Duh. My diet starts tomorrow. T Giving eve…what can I say? Total Loveville? What was supposed to be a night of Designing Women and sweatpants, turned into well..Wetnaps, Kelis, lotion rubdowns, and roller chair rides and I wish THIS
XOXO
Rita
Loleatta Holloway - “We’re Getting Stronger” (1976)
and we’re back….
I know Whitney be thankful for Loleatta Holloway tonight. Ethan’s been blowing up the Mike Simonetti (of Italians Do It Better) “Getting Stronger” edit of this song for a while now - checking the download on Soundcloud led me to the original…thanks for the history lesson, Mike! I’ll be back with another special gift from Loleatta tomorrow. In the meantime…
Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill (Radio Edit) - 2009
xo_a
P.S. - I’m working on some mixtapes collecting songs from the first “100” Days…get ready. Maybe as a gift for Chronica? (duh, Christmas + Hannukah)
EURO-FANTASY '84
Follow me, all ye super-freaks.
Let us wade through the billowing mists and emerge on the other side, beyond the illuminated gateway, and into Europe. 1984.
Close your eyes, open your ears and enter your own personal fantasia. Then open your eyes again and watch these incredible music videos.
MIKO MISSION - THE WORLD IS YOU (Italy, 1984) VALERIE DORE - THE NIGHT (Italy, 1984) DENIS & DENIS - TELEFON (Croatia, 1984)
1984. Apparently the zenith of heart-breaking euro-fantasy dance-music, in so many words.
Let’s get meta-physical, meta-physical.
And don’t forget… fantasies can come true.
WM
ahhh, this is the kind of disco i just can’t get enough of. BELLE EPOQUE! glass candy covered this song, but i have to say, the original holds up just fine.
i mean, seriously, these gals have everything. gold lame + weird TV appearances, CHECK.
silver lame + dancing on bavarian rooftop, CHECK.
studded leather jacket + scarves, CHECK.
sparkly leggings with matching eye shadow + white pantsuit + playing in front of a giant roulette wheel (introduced by a cutie in a rainbow-striped shirt, no less!), CHECK.
and i can’t even begin to figure out what this is supposed to be—there’s no way this is the original group, but it sounds just like them—weird russian lip-synch television spectacular, anyone?
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE REAL BELLE EPOQUE IS NOT THESE CHOAD-BURGERS. (btw, if you watch that video, the bass player’s screamy vocal bits are kinda priceless—it’s like chunk from the goonies found emocore).
GLAXO BABIES “MAXIMUM SEXUAL JOY” (1980)
JAMS TO THE MAX!
The Glaxo Babies are a long-time favorite…so much so that I secretly maintain (it’s been some time) the official Glaxo Babies MySpace page on behalf of vocalist Rob Chapman.
The Glaxo Babies were a Bristol band from the late 70s, probably best known for their song “Who Killed Bruce Lee?” and “Shake the Foundation” (later covered by the Pop Group, with Ari Up from the Slits). Rob Chapman left the band after the release of Put Me on the Guest List, and joined Sam Dodson’s Transmitters. The remaining members of the Glaxo Babies went on to form Maximum Joy with vocalist Janine Rainforth and a former member of the Pop Group. The Glaxos reformed in 1985 to make some recordings, most of which can be found on The Porlock Factor, a Cherry Red release from a few years back. “Maximum Sexual Joy” is probably one of the wildest cuts you will hear—from their more experimental debut full-length, Nine Months to the Disco.
—Jamillah
*this is my last post on 100 DAYS OF DISCO for some time. I hope folks have enjoyed my posts as much as I’ve enjoyed participating in this projects with friends and loved ones far afield. I will be continuing to maintain my covers blog, SECOND WAVE, in the meantime and will drop in here periodically. xoxo
LaTour
1987 Radio personality, voice over actor, William “Bud” LaTour arrives in Chicago
1991 Honest-to-Robotic Deadpan single, “People Are Still Having Sex”
Even MTV’s Downtown Julie Brown takes notice and declares “People Are Still Having Sex, except me…”
1992 La Tour takes “Blue” straight to film, ice pick to keyboard….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGAYbYFzKk
PSA between the dancefloor sheets> LaTour
~P
Taste Town Mixtape »
Hi All,
I resign from my post here at 100 Days (for now) with a little prezzy for ya’ll. Click on the header for a download of a mixtape I put together featuring my favorite jams of the summer. Its not really disco, but bangers of their own right- a blend of Dubstep, Cumbia, Kuduro, Baltimore Club, Dancehall, and other hybrid club sounds. Haters of my last post might want to skip through the latter half of the mix, but I think I did an alright job at contextualizing these songs. I’m pretty happy with this, its mostly vinyl played through Ox-Bow’s junky ass turntable setup. I’ve really enjoyed my tenure here, exposure to tons of hot jams with some feisty cultural discourse thrown in. It’s been real! See y’all on the dancefloors! Peace. E
The tracklist:
Skream- “Filth”
El Remolon- “Zapatillas Galacticas”
Uproot Andy- “El Pescador”
Frederic Galliano Kuduro Sound System- “Ate Quando”
Buraka Som Sistema- “Kelembe (Wegue Wegue)”
Amadou & Miriam- Sabali (Uproot Andy Remix)”
DJ Tecnics- “Mr. Postman”
Diplo- “Must be a Devil”
Major Lazer ft. Vybz Cartel- “Pon De Floor”
Ghislain Poirier ft. Face-T- “Wha La La Lang”
Major Lazer ft. Lexxus and Santigold- “Hold the Line
Rye Rye ft. M.I.A.- “Bang”
South Rakkas Crew- “Mad Again (Jokers of the Scene Trancehall Remix)”
Major Lazer ft. Nina Sky & Rikki Blaze- “Keep it Going Louder”
Capleton- “Real Hot (South Rakkas Crew Remix)”
Major Lazer ft. Jovi Rockwell & Mr. Vegas- “Can’t Stop Now”