come on closer to my sandbox italo disco thread

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starting this largely because i've just discovered diana est! coiffed like joanne human league, dances like teena marie, dresses like my italian grandma! total fabulousness all around.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bZZ0nrZwT98

discuss, or what have you

― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I just have an mp3 of the Tony Carrasco remix of Tenax. Can't watch youtube at "work" though.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of Italo, has anybody got a full length file of Albert One's "Turbo Diesel"? The one I bought off emusic is from a mixed comp...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i do, but i'm at work right now

― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that's the first time I've seen someone lip syncing to a completely out of tune vocal. It gives me a weird bit of cognitive dissonance.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

here's her video for "tenax," btw:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eyWRh3JiFuM

― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"Come On Closer" is my startup song on Myspace and it rarely fails to cheer me up. I'm considering framing the 12" reissue on my wall.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i just picked up the 2 cd Confused Disco: a Retrospective of Italian Records but haven't listented to it yet.
http://www.discogs.com/release/688973

also been listening to the 3 I Love Synthes12"er Dance comps on Blanco Y Negro. Casco's "Cybernetic Love" is killing me
http://www.discogs.com/release/479238
http://www.discogs.com/release/521064
http://www.discogs.com/release/521032

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I discovered Funky Family - Funky Is On on the Confused Disco compilation. One of my new favorite italo song. But I got the vinyl, and I just noticed the CD has a lot more songs than my copy. What does the Kirlian Camera song 'Blue Room (Radio Slave Edit & FX)' sound like?

― jacob sanders (Jacobs), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Another Confuzed question- what's the remix CD like? There are some pretty good names doing the remixing...

― neil stewart (nstewart), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I never got into the Italo Disco thing. :-( It just doesn't appeal to me. Maybe I'm missing something.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Listen to 'Spacerwoman'. If you don't like that, then I guess you just don't like Italo-disco.

― Dave Smith (baboon2006), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I found the original Cybernetic Love for 2 dollars at a weird little record "store" run by people who didn't speak english 1 block from Madison Square Garden.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Confuzed remix CD is a bit spotty, although the Lindstrom Remix is excellent. It's worth it for the first cd though, and I can't get enough of the original "Call Me Mr Telephone." I'm kind of pissed that they didn't put the vocal version of "Stranger In A Strange Land" though, I don't think it's ever been on CD.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

the munk edit of "i.c. love affair" is sort of pointless (did it really need one?)

i have just listened to "le louvre" about six times in a row and would keep doing so if i didn't have class in an hour.

― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't heard the edit, but I can't imagine...the song is absolutely perfect, and one of my first introductions to italo-disco.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

anybody have a 12" of Thanya's Freedom to sell, please get in touch!

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I find it very very strange how I immediately liked all this stuff, and I am TOTALLY not a dance music person.

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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