Links: A dumped Steinway, Kim Dotcom’s terrible album, early TR-808 hits, the history of disco.

A Steinway baby grand piano found by a teenager at a rubbish dump in tropical north-western Australia. No, he didn’t get to keep it.
The saga of how Kim Dotcom’s one-star album Good Times was recorded. “One of the most expensive albums in New Zealand music history” (NZ$1m), and Neil Finn was not happy to find out what sort of bozos he’d hired his studio out to. A Mixerman-level event. “There was lots and lots of good music that was actually made but it never saw the light of day because it wasn’t Kim’s taste. His taste is what you can hear on that fucking atrocious album that actually got released.”
Eight early TR-808 hits. I hadn’t realised “Sexual Healing” used an 808.
From 2010, an oral history of disco. “Disco music is funk with a bow tie.”