There’s a new Rowland S. Howard career collection, Six Strings That Drew Blood. Here’s an excellent review and history from the Quietus. I didn’t
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Category: Dance
It’s got a beat and you can do architecture to it.
Renaissance by the Village People (1981): the Highlander 2 of disco.
It’s 1981. The disco empire has fallen. The Casablanca label has been bought by PolyGram and all the disco artists have been dumped. You
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A questionable timeline of the evolution of Western dance music.
Thomson Package Holidays have a blog in which they attempted to tell people about music. Despite having perpetuated the stuff myself, I find myself
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Disco 2000.
After the KLF, what can you do with your life but cure cancer?
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Hold back the invaders, their infernal machines.
This week’s bit of Wikipedia: Space Invaders (Player One song). A disco novelty hit from Russell Brown and Bruce Dunlop, Australian #3 in 1980
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Leftfield, Melbourne, March 18, 2011
The early 1990s were a depressing time, and even more so in Victoria, Australia. The Gorbachev revolution, which successfully led to the unravelling of
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Interview: the KLF’s James Cauty.
How much money did the KLF make? Where did it all go? Is Bill Drummond really as crazy as Julian Cope says? Ex KLF-er James Cauty — the man behind the now pulled from gallery walls Stamps of Mass Destruction and a mass of top 10 pop hits about icecream vans — answers all these questions (except the last one) and more …
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