Archive for the ‘Electro Disco’ tag
Robot Rock du Jour: The Droids – (Do You Feel) The Force (1977)
Silver droids + wall of speakers + dancing space chick = hot video. Leave it to a Frenchman (Barclay manager Fabrice Cuitad) to put out a super-cool concept 7″, 12″ and LP based on the iconic film Star Wars. This video covers Part I. Part II has a funkier vibe.
SCHEMATIC: HQ vinyl rips of Part I and Part II, sources, cover art…
Robot Rock du Jour: Kébekélektrik – Journey Into Love/Magic Fly (1977)
Renditions of this killer track keep popping up. What is really strange, however, is that multiple bands released the same track in the same year.
Kébekélektrik (aka Gino Soccio) released Journey Into Love in 1977 on Les Disques Direction Records from Montreal. The track, re-released as Magic Fly later that year, is nearly identical to Space’s Magic Fly, but with a slightly different production feel.
SCHEMATIC: Record scans, photos and YET ANOTHER VERSION…
Party Time: Saturday Robot Party @ The Idle Hour (Baltimore, MD)
VIGR is in the house. 4+ hour rare vinyl set. Need I say more? Hope to see you there! I’ll try to keep track of the setlist…
Robot Rock du Jour: Space – Magic Fly (1977)
This video is totally out of control! Pictutre this: Robots rocking out on analog synths and live drums while a hot female humanoid dances seductively for your tripped out 1970s pleasure. French band Space clearly had it going on in 1977.
The audio player below comes pre-loaded with the 12″ b-side track, Fasten Seat Belt, which was ripped at 24/96 from my personal copy and converted to MP3 at 192kbps. Although Fasten Seat Belt is a funkier journey into the cosmos, it still totally rocks!
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SCHEMATIC: High quality vinyl rips from their second LP, Just Blue…
Robot Rock du Jour: Ronnie Jones – Video Games (1980)
Anybody else spot a Daft Punk Technologic sample in this, particularly once the lyrics kick in around 0:40? The 2+ minute breakdown at 3:48 is some robotic funk video game pinball madness!