Tag: disco noir
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Other side of the Tracks
Just heard this excellent introduction to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with a few rare tracks I’d not even heard via Other Side Of The Tracks from pirate radio station Free Radio Santa Cruz. It came around randomly while I was ripping my copy of the Four Albums from The Radiophonic Workshop – yes I succumbed,…
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Disco Noir 2: Monster Halloween Edition mix
I’ve been meaning to do a new Dark Electro / Disco Noir mix since I did the last one 3 years ago (was it really that long?). As I’ve gotten more into dubstep, psych garage and surf oddities this is also now reflected in this late edition of Disco Noir 2 – it also has…
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Spooky listening – have a horrible halloween!
Love this Disco Argento mix by Menergy – aka The Niallist – I love soundtracks to films by the likes of Carpenter, Argento, Romero and co, and this mix takes the lesser known and rarer tracks and creates a disco noir / dark electro as I call it mix – like my dark mix in…
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disco will never die – nowdisco nu-disco/neo disco long mix
What is nu/neo-disco? I asked myself that recently – disco is in my genes (jeans?) yet I was confused at what had happened to the genre since 2008, and at all since I knew hardly any of it (I thought, it partly turned out a matter of genre labelling for a few acts I already…
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dark mix #1: dark electro disco noir
‘Dark electro / Disco noir’ is what I call a certain type of music referencing or sampling certain horror movie soundtracks from Goblin to John Carpenter that’s popped up recently in certain electro / electro house quarters, and it’s a music that I can connect to for several reasons, it’s dark and broody and seems…
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Holy Electric Nun! It’s the Sisters of Transistors!
Ever wondered what Mr Massey of 808 State is upto nowadays? Well working with these people, the Sisters of Transistors: Nice to see a) it’s rocking that electro-horror sound I’ve been calling ‘disco noir’ or ‘dark electro’ that takes a lot of inspiration from Mssrs Carpenter and Moroder, with a dash of early 80’s New…