A Year In Pop: 28

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A light-ish week with a few well-known names.

Last week's poll - http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/406271.html - got very very low tickage. Now, it wasn't a very inspiring selection but do pop back and have a look at it if only to tick the "not heard" box! The, ahem, delicately calibrated orgafun ranking system is in danger of being thrown out of wack.

[Poll #1022266]

There's another 20 minutes or so to get yr tick on in the Pop Open love vote, too. I have a terrible feeling it might be a draw as it stands.

Comments

Re: Good Ticknology

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

beardo disco thread on ilx.

I'm not fully conversant with it myself but I keep getting sent mixes which I presume fall into this category, and I love all of them. I prefer what I assume is termed the "space disco" end - lots of luscious cascading piano, trippy beats, not so many vocals. It's all very loungey, smooth, rather decadent and dreamy. I think a re-edit is less a reworking of a song than...just tightening it up, making it slightly more dancefloor-friendly in tersm of beats and structure. I haven't heard the Frankie Valli original though.

Lindstrom and Prins Thomas are, I think, the key act to check out - I love their stuff. (http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=49556)

Re: Good Ticknology

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

A good mp3 blog for disco (re)edits - as well as original disco tunes and beardo disco in general - is American Athlete (http://americanathlete.blogspot.com/).

I can take 'em or leave disco edits mostly. Few improve on the originals. The Valli one is OK, I spose. I wish the scene's main participants spent more time making their own music cos it's nearly always good, and certainly far more interesting.

Re: Good Ticknology

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have seen that beardo disco thread a million times but never clicked on it for some reason, possibly because "Rub and Tug" is the worst artist name ever.

If this re-edit is anything to go by, I don't really see the point - I'd like to play the original and this side by side and see what's been done

Re: Good Ticknology

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

as Jeff says the orig material by beardo/space disco artists tends to be more interesting to me - and then on their mixes the way it doevtails with the older standards. I don't really have any re-edits.

The Rub'n'Tug Fabric mix is v good!

Re: Good Ticknology

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i would still like to know what beardo disco is without scanning through that ilx thread.

YES i AM a lazy swine

Re: Good Ticknology

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i finally listened to the Map Of Africa album which has received much praise from lofty blogx0rs - it's OK, kinda LCD Soundsystem meets...Jon Spencer meets...Jethro Tull...maybe, not sure.

Re: Good Ticknology

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm not really keen on that album, a bit too beardo and not enough space. The Lindstrom & Prins Thomas and Studio albums are much better...

Re: Good Ticknology

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'space disco' just makes me think of Italo, thus I win.

Re: Good Ticknology

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i downloaded a 'Moodymann re-edit' of 'Erotic City' but found nothing different about it in relation to the extended original mix - was pleased to get it at high bitrate tho. but the whole 're-edit' thing is all a ruddy swizz.

having said that, over the weekend i did a 're-edit' of 'I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)' so that the intro is extended allowing it's greatness to be savoured to more satisfactory level - hurrah I!