Category: disco

20 Jun

Celebrate the Solstice with Studio

Today marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, with the sun not setting until a late 8:31pm. Kick back with your favorite iced cocktail and chill to the dubbed out cosmic-disco vibe of Studio’s remake of A […]

12 May

Syclops Has His Eye on You

Syclops lends itself as a bit of a mystery. Little is known of the “Finnish trio” featuring Sven Kortehisto, Hanna Sarkari, and Jukka Kantonen since they don’t tour, do interviews, take press photos, or reveal much information about themselves. The “band” does however play live shows, but only for themselves, not audiences. […]

30 Apr

Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics

Italo-disco has played an important role in electronic music since its beginnings, surfacing in a variety of forms over the years. Acts like Little Boots, Hot Chip, In Flagranti, Ricardo Villalobos, Sally Shapiro, Glass Candy, Chromatics, along with most of the Italians Do It Better label, and others continue to reinvent the genre to […]

23 Apr

Quiet Village Makes the Old Sound New with Silent Movie

I wasn’t alive in the 1970s, but I have a very vivid image burned into my memory on what they were like from old family photographs, film, televison, magazines, and other imagery. Some things that immediately pop into my mind when I think of America in the 70s are big cars, crotch riding bell-bottoms, […]

05 Feb

pic of the week — super fat tuesday

© Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos

Today is Super Tuesday, marking the closest thing this nation has ever had to a national primary, “the largest simultaneous number of state U.S. presidential primary elections in the history of U.S. primaries.” Twenty-four U.S. States are voting today, but delegate rich Pennsylvania won’t be participating despite efforts by […]

07 Dec

Hold On

Above pic via thecobrasnake

Here’s a track to get you hype for the weekend. Smooth enough to put on in the afternoon as you watch the second hand tick ever so slowly, but it also has enough disco kick that you can carry it over into your early and/or late night partying. Be […]