This is the video for Velvet Acid Christ’s Caustic Disco, Mindless Faith Mix.

via Hexfix93

This lp and single are the best things I have done in ages. This is the proof. The new lp is half acoustic goth and half ebm trance ELECTRO. I love the Mindless Faith Remix, Mindless Faith Kicks ass, I will interview them soon.

Giorgio Moroder has a special place in the history of electronic music, because of his genre-inspiring classic track I Feel Love, with Donna Summer and Pete Bellotte.

When Brian Eno first heard I Feel Love, he told David Bowie “This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years,” which it did. The track has been covered by dozens of artists and imitated, either directly or indirectly, by thousands.

Moroder’s version of the original Battlestar Galactica soundtrack, on the other hand, has been lost to obscurity.

Until now:

Give it a listen and let me know what you think!

via TMI

Sunday Synth Jam: Torley invites you to revisit the 80’s with his Disco house synth jam to Maethelvin Delight.

via Torley:

REVISIT THE 80S @ www.myspace.com/maethelvin

DOWNLOAD MY MUSIC @ http://torley.com/music

KEYBOARD is NOVATION 49SL MkII

mik300z makes a triumphant return to the Synthtopia Sunday Synth Jam with a Giorgio Moroder inspired electronic disco improv:

Based on “here to eternity”. This was all going swell until the ESQ1 drifted out of pitch near the end (not my bum notes for a change lol) Some Human league influence here too:)

It’s hard to overestimate the influence Moroder has had on electronic dance music, isn’t it?

In this video Tim Exile performs YouTube Killed The Now Wave Star using Native Instruments‘ Reaktor 5.

The camera work for this video is fantastic, giving you a high resolution look over Exile’s shoulder as he performs the piece.

via NativeInstruments

From 1977, French robotic space pop group The Droids do The Force, a bit of Star Wars inspired robo disco.

Yves Hayat (synthesizers and sequencers) formed Droids along with Richard Lornac on key board and Jean Paul Batailley on drums and tablas.

via magicwaves:

more french robotic space rock, this time from 1976…

This multipart video documentary looks at the history of house music.

VITALIC – Your Disco Song

via areyoufunky:

Video for Your Disco Song the first single of Vitalic’s new album to be released end of September ! Directed by Christine Massy & Brice Van Der Haegen / Produced by WAF!

DJDeedle’s latest Deedlecast is a 007 James Bond electronica megamix.

And like the James Bond movies, it’s sexy, it’s silly, and it’s swanky – thanks to the classic brassy scores of John Barry.

Every Friday, DJDeedle posts a 30 to 40 minute show, called a “Deedlecast,” featuring mashup, chillout, downtempo, or dance mixes and remixes of every conceivable kind.

This week, DJDeedle takes some of the iconic Bond themes and sounds as his fixed point and moves the musical world rapidly around them. And because going to the movies just isn’t the same without it, if you listen carefully, DJDeedle’s even thrown in the popcorn.

This is a synth jam on the Giorgio Moroder/Donna Summer disco classic I Feel Love.

It’s a nice demo of what the Pro-One can do – but it also highlights how different the filter on the Pro-One sounds compared to the Moog synthesizer of the original.

via retrosound72:

I feel love……with this synth.

Sequential Circuits Pro-One Analog Synthesizer with different settings (OSC-Sync, PWM, VCF, Envelope…); internal sequencer is triggered by the Roland TR-808: drums: Roland TR-808

For me one of the best monophonic analog synths ever.

Synthtopia continues its Link Love for Tenori On Babes campaign with a shout out to LIttle Boots, who’s Fairtilized a free mix tape of synth-heavy retro disco – the Automatic Lovers Mix. 

You can preview it below or download it here.

via apc

I like the original Giorgio Moroder production better, but Erek McQueen’s techno reworking of Donna Summer’s I’m Feel Love, below, reminds us that techno is 30 years old – and it still sounds pretty cool.

“I have heard the sound of the future,” said Brian Eno when he heard I Feel Love in 1977. “This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.”

via exmedia, your source for “gay house music from various derelict districts of New York City, London, and one filthy toilet in Berlin.”

In a small study from the University of Illinois medical school, doctors and students maintained close to the ideal number of CPR chest compressions per minute while listening to the disco hit from the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever.

The American Heart Association recommends 100 chest compressions per minute, more than most people realize, study author Dr. David Matlock said Thursday. He found that Stayin’ Alive, which has a way of getting stuck in your head anyway, can help with that.

Dr. Matthew Gilbert, a 28-year-old medical resident, was among participants in the University of Illinois study this past spring. Gilbert said he was surprised the song worked as well as it did.

“I heard a rumor that Another One Bites the Dust works also, but it didn’t seem quite as appropriate,” Gilbert adds.

via CNN

Cell Phone Disco is an experimental installation made out of sensor equipped LEDs.

Here’s the artists’ description:

Cell Phone Disco is a playful experimental installation made out of ?ashing cells. By multiplication of a mobile phone gadget, only slightly altered consumer product, we created a space to experience the invisible body of the mobile phone.

Flashing cells basically consist of one or more LEDs, battery and a sensor that detects electromagnetic (EM) radiation transmitted by an active mobile phone. When the sensor detects EM waves it sets off the LEDs to ?ash for a couple of seconds. In general the ?ashing cells are enclosed in a plastic casing on a strap and sold as a fashion accessory for a mobile phone.

The Cell Phone Disco installation has two parts:

MOBILE AURA

Flashing cells with sensors of higher sensitivity are used to detect electromagnetic radiation of active mobile phone in a range of approximately a meter.  This way a sort of aura appears around the phone, revealing a part of it’s invisible body. While the user moves around talking on his phone, this aura follows the conversation as a light shadow through the space.

MOBILE DRAWING

Much less sensitive cells are used to create a canvas for an inkless marker. The LEDs get activated only by an extreme proximity of the electromagnetic source. Moving the phone close to the cells therefore leaves a trace of light, an temporary electromagnetic drawing.

Created by Ursula Lavrencic and Auke Touwslager

The Disco Handbook reveals the secrets of disco lingo, secrets of non-verbal communication, how to do the box step, disco dance rules and more.

You gotta wonder how much of what we’re doing today will look this stupid in 30 years!

Official Video for I Love To Move In Here‘by Moby – from the album Last Night. Features Grandmaster Caz.

Think you could do better? See Moby’s video contest.

Here’s the official blurb on Moby’s latest, Last Night:

After the meditative electronica of 2002’s 18 and the singer-songwriter moves of 2005’s Hotel, moby returns to the dance floor with a vengeance on his new album Last Night, released on 31st March 2008. Spanning hands-in-the-air, Smiley-faced rave anthems, cosmic Giorgio Moroder-styled Euro-disco, hip-hop both old school and underground, and downtempo, end-of-the-night ambience, Last Night is a dance music tour de force that looks back at moby’s deep roots in the club scene at the same time as it embraces the future.

Reacting against the downbeat quality of previous albums like Hotel, 18 and the blockbuster Play, moby “wanted to make an album that was a little more playful, a little more reflective of [his] life as it actually is.” While moby has garnered a bit of a reputation as a joyless militant as a result of the way he once expressed his beliefs and has been frequently characterized by the British music press as a teetotaling vegan Jesus freak, he says, “That’s just not who I am. I’m more likely than not to stay out until 5am drinking with my friends.”

In fact, Last Night is conceptually structured like one of these epic nights out, moving from the building excitement of the early evening to peak-time euphoria to 2 am confusion and the blissful peace of the early morning New York City sunrise. moby hesitantly admits that Last Night is in fact something of a concept album as it attempts to condense an entire night out into a 60-minute album. But banish any thoughts of deaf, dumb and blind pinball savants or prog rockers sailing topographic oceans because the concept doesn’t get in the way of the dance floor imperative and merely serves to give a subtle narrative arc to Last Night’s exploration of the energy of nightlife.

Fun concept for an album, and it sounds like it may be a return to form for Moby.

As Moby would say:

the video for disco lies taken from the album ‘last night’

Every day, we’re bringing you great free music. Give it a listen, download it if you like it, and check out the artists at their sites.

Electronica duo Cherry Bikini, Sophie Boscallini and Armand Abagliani, specialize in sexy dance music that pushes buttons and pushes limits. Their music is catchy dance electronica, in the vein of Soft Cell, Basement Jaxx, Goldfrapp, and Lords of Acid. They describe it as “cosmopolitan electronica for the whole world.”

Their songs often deal with sexuality with a matter-of-fact explicitness. You can find out more about Sophie and Armand in our Cherry Bikini interview.

They’re beavering away at their latest album, but we’re pretty sure it will be about sex and dancing. In the meantime, you can check out Badly Behaved, below, and visit their site to download more tracks and preview their two albums

According to Cerrone, Save the Disco! is not another cheesy Disco Night, but rather, a true celebration of the genre’s glory days and how it’s influenced modern dance and electronic music.

“Conceptually, we’ll embark on a journey where artists from different musical backgrounds will join NYC talent DJ Angola (resident DJ for Sweet Spot events and also Recall Lab parties at Hiro Ballroom) to become ONE for a night: from Afro Disco oldies and chosen 80’s tunes to Funky House beats and bad ass San Francisco Deep House.”

Each month guests attending the event will have the privilege to welcome artists such as Lisa Shaw (scheduled down to perform Thursday, March 8), Sharon Jones and Jay-J, who are already booked. Dressed up staff, themed décor, drag queens and unique performances are planned for each month.

The goal of Save the Disco! is to build a regular party where guests become participants rather than spectators. Guests are highly encouraged to show up with the most extravagant 70s’ outfit – Afros and bell bottoms pants are a must-have!

More info at the Save the Disco! MySpace.