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HELLO WORLD

2009-12-07T15:46:00.002+01:00

I decided to bring the blog to life again.

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ERIK

Irene Cara: Breakdance

2008-08-16T04:15:00.007+01:00

TI PIACE SCHUBERT?

2008-06-15T20:39:00.002+01:00

I go to Stockholm for a week on Tuesday. In advance I say Auf Wiedersehen to Berlin. Milva too:

Milva - Alexanderplatz

Rumore, Rumore

2008-06-15T16:53:00.002+01:00

This is the most fun I think anyone could ever have.

Raffaela Carra - Rumore

Also, I'm looking desperately for Alexanderplatz by Milva. Help me out?

MARINERO

2008-05-29T16:47:00.001+01:00

LUCIA - MARINERO

GOOD OLD GERMANY

2008-05-26T17:45:00.003+01:00

Giorgio Moroder - Good Old Germany

EXCLUSIVE

2008-05-21T18:13:00.002+01:00

At least, I haven't seen it on any other blogs. So it must be so.

Sally Shapiro - My Fantasy

this one is kinda hard to find too...

Sally Shapiro - Skating in the Moonshine

Dw

2008-05-17T19:12:00.017+01:00

Recently i found something extraordinary. Immediately i fell in love with their music and the whole atmosphere surrounding them. I have to say that i like their artwork as much as i like the music and it´s seems like the images and the music relates to each other. Things like that makes the impression stronger, and sometimes better. Almost like a concept, the Dw concept. It´s not like the music really needs the artwork and vice versa, i just want to say that this is good and don´t miss out on this. They have been around for a while and surely, already got a bunch of fans and clubs that play their music. They should have!

Dw is Killian Eng and Amir Zaino, one Graphic Design & Illustration student and one theater producer living in Stockholm/Sweden in their mid twenties. We started to make music around 1998. It all began with hip hop beats, but quite quickly moved on to more dance oriented stuff. We have worked under the name Dw since 2003. Before that we called ourselves Darkwoods, that's actually what Dw stands for. If you listento the tracks you wont find much dark so we just made it Dw. The only thing that's left from the Darkwoods-days are the melodies that still are a bit melancholic, that's the way it is up northen Sweden. Melancholic happiness. Nowadays Dw has become more like Hiphop-housethrough pink Italo shades.

Dw - You and me

Dw - Hijack

Listen to their new song Razorblades featuring Snart on: http://www.myspace.com/dwmusik

Do it!

2008-05-15T19:34:00.002+01:00

I like this. It´s been on my playlist for a while now and i realize that i should put it here before i get tired of it and forget about the song.

o´gar - new rider

Also if you´re unfamiliar with O´gar you should listen to this: playback fantasy

Deluxe

2008-05-11T17:53:00.012+01:00

Money, sex, fashion

Boys, girls, lipstick

Deluxe - Diamonds
http://www.myspace.com/musikdeluxe

Nicolosi

2008-05-10T13:18:00.001+01:00

Alba - Only Music Survives

Lama

2008-05-05T11:13:00.004+01:00

Any girl who sings like this is allowed to do whatever she wants with me...
Dont know anything more about the artist, seems like there´s only two songs. Love on the rocks, which is good and also nineteen nintey three, even better. Have a listen.

Lama - Nineteen ninety three

From the year 1983.

R.A.F.

2008-04-27T12:35:00.002+01:00

How informative a simple Discogs search can be:

Real Name: Raffaele Riefoli
Profile: Born: 29-9-1959
RAF was the artist who had made the original version of 'Self Control', before Robbie Buchanan and Harold Faltermeyer "used" it for Laura Branigan, making it a big Dance-Hit. The original composers are credited on her record for the original music, but not for the words (only the English translator is named).
In Germany, the name was changed to RAFF, eluding the German RAF terror cell.
URLs: http://www.raf.it/

Raf - Self Control

Re-Discover ELO

2008-04-26T09:37:00.002+01:00

And I owe it all to my former roommate Jesse.

Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown
Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman

G, Of Course, Stands For Getting A Divorce

2008-04-25T08:39:00.001+01:00

I found this one Paul Durango a few months ago. It's weird.

Amanda Lear - My Alphabet

AROUND MY HEART

2008-04-24T10:01:00.002+01:00

I heard this for the first time on an amazing Johan Agebjörn mix back in December, which you can still download here.

Sandra - Around My Heart

Disco Sorrows

2008-04-23T09:38:00.002+01:00

When will this come back. When will disco be king again. I'm just so tired of Ed Banger, is all.

Viola Wills - Gonna Get Along Without You

Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro

2008-04-04T20:18:00.001+01:00

Varsågoda.
Quite handsome video, even though it contains a cowboyhat...But they totally get away with it.
Also, welcome to europe Darryl

Dorothy

2008-04-02T16:48:00.002+01:00

Makes me want to have sex to it.

Dorothy - Softness (1981)

S&J&E

2008-02-26T00:43:00.002+01:00

Sally Shapiro that you can dance to?!
I don't think is anyone has posted this anywhere yet, from what I can tell. Sally, Johan, and Elitechnique, a perfect lineup.

Sally Shapiro - Outer Space Woman (S&J vs Elitechnique)

from the Spacer Woman From Mars 12"

PRETTY DAY

2008-02-11T15:52:00.000+01:00

Mary Möör - Pretty Day (zShare)

Mary Möör myspace
from the amazing BIPPP: French-Synth Wave 1979-1985

KLEIN UND M.B.O.

2008-02-11T15:01:00.000+01:00

I've been busy in Berlin with Street Clash, but I haven't forgotten my italo roots. Here's a special German treat:

Klein & M.B.O. - First... (zShare)
Track Listing

A1		The Big Apple (5:38)
A2		The MBO Theme (6:01)
A3		Wonderful (8:14)
B1		Dirty Talk (5:36)
		Vocals - Rossana Casale
B2		De-Ja-Vu (7:55)
B3		I Love You (4:32)

cross post

2008-01-12T00:46:00.001+01:00

This is relevant to Radio No 1 listeners, ya?:
crossposted from Canada Doesn't Suck

It took me ages to dig this up on the Internet.

Pierre Perpall went by a few names in the 70s. One of them was Pluton & The Humanoids, which is probably the coolest of them all. Although Purple Flash is pretty ok too.

I don't know, just look into those space-invaded eyes and tell me you're not curious.

Pluton and the Humanoids - World Invaders (zShare)
from the ep World Invaders (1981)

You can read an interview with Perpall about the 70s disco scene in Montreal here and you can buy some of his stuff here.

happy new year i say

2008-01-01T01:49:00.000+01:00

hey, so, i'm going to a party tonight, i can only hope it's as good as this one:

the passengers - he's speedy like gonzales

Beautiful

2007-12-11T09:38:00.000+01:00

Angie Care - Your Mind (zShare)

More cross-promotion

2007-11-26T06:47:00.001+01:00

CANADA DOESN'T SUCK

A NEW MUSIC BLOG
POUR LA SUITE DU CANADA

CANADADOESNTSUCK.BLOGSPOT.COM

Cover Version: Physical

2007-11-26T05:34:00.001+01:00

These two songs were mixed together at a really rad party I was at on at Friday, and I was like "Hey, I should post this." So I did. Both are great, obviously, because that's the only kind of music we post here.

Olivia Newton John - Physical (zShare)

The Black Ghosts - Physical (zShare)

so happy!!

2007-11-21T10:52:00.000+01:00

If I was in your blood, then you wouldn't be so ugly.
BURN.

Kid Creole + The Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy

BOO

2007-11-09T18:50:00.000+01:00

I had no idea that Justice sampled Goblin, but that just proves I have much to learn. Halloween was a few weeks ago already, but you can still get spooky if you want. The song is the theme from Dario Argento's Tenebre, and it's pretty great on its own, even after Justice disappears.

Goblin - Tenebre (Main Theme)

i only like girls and electronics

2007-11-07T19:22:00.000+01:00

apparently, this is the truth.

ELECTRA - ARE YOU AUTOMATIC?

2007-11-05T19:07:00.000+01:00

I´m really far away from fun, i´m at work almost all the time and forced to live in the middle of nowhere, but i still have my memories...Golden nights, money and good looking people, please embrace me again... I like this song:
Trippple Nippples - RIP Meat

robotlove

2007-11-04T01:43:00.000+01:00

today has been a very good day

DEE D. JACKSON - AUTOMATIC LOVER
(the song length is incorrect, and maybe it's not great quality -- it's a youtube audio grab)

TENA-TENAX

2007-11-03T19:16:00.000+01:00

If it were a perfect world, and this blog had more readers, I know people would realize that this is the apex of beauty. If anyone has any more Diana Est, or can recommend something similar, please comment!!

Diana Est - Tenax (zShare)

LE LOUVRE

2007-10-31T19:49:00.000+01:00

diana est, le mie voglie

DIANA EST - LE LOUVRE

If I may repeat myself:

2007-10-29T18:30:00.000+01:00

EVERYTHING IS BETTER IN FRENCH, ALWAYS.

TRANS-X - VIVRE SUR VIDÉO

utalk2much

2007-10-29T17:07:00.000+01:00

I love Irene Cara. There I said it.

Irene Cara - Talk Too Much

Plastic Doll

2007-10-28T22:24:00.000+01:00

This is one of the italo classics, which surprisingly is a bit difficult to find. Once I tried to mash it with Transexual. I called it Plastic Tranny. It didn't sound that great. I'm working on it. Anyway, here's Dharma. Absolutely Essential.

Dharma - Plastic Doll (Vocal)

WELCOME

2007-10-20T03:29:00.000+01:00

Welcome to Rimini,
where the grammar is atrocious, but the girls are beauties.
you will make a love forever rimini
you will live italian like in paradise

Ric Fellini - Welcome to Rimini

This is actually the voice of Ken Laszslo, also.

2007-09-29T15:53:00.000+01:00

CATO CANARI

The song was released already in 2005 so it´s probably not news for everybody but since it´s such a good song i just couldn´t help myself... It´s like a modern day city nightclub mantra.

Cato Canari - baby ( i love you so )

http://www.myspace.com/catocanari

FANCY COVER

2007-09-28T15:27:00.000+01:00

I prefer this one, if we're being honest with one another.

Ago is Agostino Presta, some Italian creep. Also, the unidentified backup singer in the video is a mastadon.

Ago - Chinese Eyes

STORY OF MY LIFE

2007-09-26T16:39:00.000+01:00

I AM HOT FOR YOU AND YOU'RE SO COLD

The New York Models - Hot For You (zShare)

CHROMATICS

2007-09-24T19:51:00.000+01:00

Chromatics are in with the Italians Do It Better gang, which I think we should all be looking out for.

After all, there's only so much Ed Banger a man can physically handle. Dark and moody, and heavily inspired by the synth bands of the early 80s, mixed with some later 80s italo.

Chromatics - Running Up That Hill
Chromatics - Night Drive

IVAN

2007-09-24T19:40:00.001+01:00

Ivan is from Spain, and I don't know where he is now, but if I had to bet, I'd say he's masquerading as one of the Junior Boys. Listen for yourself.

Ivan - Fotonovela
Junior Boys - Birthday

A SYMPHONY

2007-09-22T01:08:00.000+01:00

If you've ever heard anything more beautiful than this, you let me know:

Fun Fun - Give Me Your Love (Andrea G Brasc Extended Remix '84)

(I'm also convinced that I've stolen all of Fun Fun's dance moves)

FUTURECOP!

2007-09-21T13:45:00.000+01:00

I´m scared of the cops and a little bit afraid of the future aswell, but if this is how the cops going sound and look like in the future i feel much better!

HANDS UP!

Futurecop! - hey heartthrob
Futurecop! - transformers

http://www.myspace.com/thefuturecop

GIRL-ON-GIRL

2007-09-18T21:49:00.000+01:00

OH MY GOD TWO GIRLS EVERY BOY'S DREAM COME TRUE

Two Girls - Another Boy In Town (Original Mix)
Two Girls - Another Boy In Town (Trigger Mix)

Johannes Rojola

2007-09-17T15:52:00.000+01:00

MUSIC FOR WINNERS!

http://www.myspace.com/jrojola
http://www.johannesrojola.com/

I´m starting to like Finland more and more and whoever said that the finnish language sounds funny when it´s sung? It´s a complete lie, it´s sounds perfectly great to me. The song Lennetään Avaruustanssiin is finnish italo sung in finnish and it´s really great. I don´t know what Johannes Rojola is singing about but it sounds nice anyway. His other two tracks in this post are more of electro nature, also very very good

Johannes Rojola - Meat From Boers
Johannes Rojola - Lennetään Avaruustanssiin
Johannes Rojola - Ralph Was Sick

APPALOOSA

2007-09-15T18:38:00.000+01:00

Finally! A lot of the mail we get at Radio No. 1 has nothing to do with what we're blogging about. But then Appaloosa showed up in our inbox.

Appaloosa seem to have almost no exposure, but that's what we're in the business of. Cat Power seems to be nuts about them judging from the crazed message she left on their myspace. Good enough for us.

Anyhow, here you have it, my favourite Berliners of the moment, Appaloosa:

Appaloosa - The Day (We Fell In Love)
myspace.com/intimate

2007-08-30T14:39:00.000+01:00

P A S S I O N B O Y S

Laszlo and Gyorgy come from Bataszek, a small village very near Budapest. And here is how they describe their music: "We are make some music very much like name Passion Boys. We like make music about sexy ladie and nice music also." How can you dislike them when they put it like that? Passion Boys are looking for DJ- gigs in Europe and actually the whole world so if you have a club or something going on, send them a message.

You can find further info on their myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/passionboys

Passion Boys - Passion Boys are Firemans
Passion Boys vs Aggro1 - Passion Boys are Firemans

nouveau italo

2007-08-26T06:36:00.000+01:00

CLOETTA PARIS

If Cloetta Paris pulls a Sally Shapiro and refuses to perform, I'll just die. Cloetta Paris is from Stockholm, and yes, she does sound like Sally, but since when was Italo about sounding different?

I can only hope that this is just the start of a new wave. Sounds like a valerie Dore making out with Fun Fun (nicely though. No tongue.) Please, somebody sign her right now!

(I couldn't decide which ones were best, so just take them all.)

Cloetta Paris - I Miss You Someone
Cloetta Paris - Broken Heart Tango
Cloetta Paris - Save Your Love

2007-08-15T14:43:00.000+01:00

LEN FAKI

Len Faki is one of Berlin’s most prominent DJ-artists within the techno scene.
Apart from constantly recurring DJ-sets on Berlin’s largest techno clubs Berghain and Panorama Bar he also has got DJ-sessions all around the world.

Quotation about the phenomenon Len Faki: “His finger tips are like sensors on the Richter scale, and anticipate as well as trigger eruptions on the floor.”

If you have possibility, take the chance to see him live!

www.myspace.com/lenfaki

Len Faki - Mekong Delta
Len Faki - Here (Len Faki podium remix)

Andy & Vince

2007-08-14T13:11:00.000+01:00

E R A S U R E

They still produce good music...

Erasure - Fly Away ( fr om their new album: Light at the en of the world (2007))

Erasure - Breathe ( from nigh tbird (2005))

Pet Shop Boys

2007-08-13T03:14:00.000+01:00

Hi, here's an old Pet Shop Boys German Maxi release, a mashup of West End Girls & Sunglasses At Night (not the Corey Hart version -- some strange German cover) followed by a dub mix of One More Chance.

Pet Shop Boys - West End Sunglasses
Pet Shop Boys - One More Chance (Dub Mix)

new wave présente la nouvelle vague

2007-08-06T17:40:00.000+01:00

Nouvelle Vague didn't invent cover versions, you know. So this time, instead of reinterpreting for themselves, Nouvelle Vague has compiled their favourite covers performed by all the best artists of the new wave scene and put them all onto Nouvelle Vague Presents: New Wave. Included are all the greats: Gary Numan, Visage, Devo, and even Telex for posterity.

Here's two of the best from the compilation, they're even mixed!

Comateens - Summer In The City (The Lovin' Spoonful cover)
Visage - In The Year 2525 (Zager and Evans cover)
(right click to download)

Lovely

2007-07-22T22:31:00.000+01:00

PACIFIC! - SUNSET BLVD

http://www.myspace.com/musicpacific

The Italian Stallion

2007-07-22T01:13:00.001+01:00

G A Z E B O
I really love his beats

Trotsky Burger (awsome but low quality)
Solitaire
Masterpiece
For Anita
Snowwhite memories
Telephone mama

Gazebo is still making music , not my cup of tea but anyway:
http://www.myspace.com/gazeboinfo

This is Gazebo today singing kareoke or something to his own hit song "i like chopin" nobody seems to notice him at all kind of funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhoWF-GIcS4

ATTENTION: THE INVADERS ARE COMING THIS WAY.

2007-07-19T04:13:00.000+01:00

THE ONLY KNOWN WEAPON IS TO PROJECT LOUD DANCE MUSIC. BY ALL MEANS DO NOT THE DISCOTHEQUES OR CARS WITHOUT PORTABLE RADIO OR YOU WILL BE IN DANGER

DEN HARROW - BROKEN RADIO

Casco

2007-07-17T10:06:00.001+01:00

Check his headphones and stonewashed jeans, Casco would look good on the streets even today.

casco - cybernetic lo ve

the old and the new

2007-07-16T06:39:00.000+01:00

the old gentle touch, a german italo disco duo. usually, power ballads aren't my thing, but actually this is great:

gentle touch - the fire of love

& the new gentle touch, 3 young swedish fellows from the small town of kalmar, which really has its shit together for a town of its size. not new news, but give them a listen, it's worth your time:

gentle touch - fascination
myspace.com/gentletouchmusic

Go! Team

2007-06-19T02:59:00.000+01:00

New Go! Team video & single, Grip Like a Vice

The Go! Team - Grip Like A Vice

and now for some cross promotion

2007-06-12T01:45:00.000+01:00

if martha stewart can do it, i can too.

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AN INTERNATIONAL STREET FASHION WAR
STREETCLASH.BLOGSPOT.COM

serge et france

2007-06-07T16:50:00.000+01:00

a little bit of french pop this morning. originally for a french tv show, take a look at the video and tell me it's not great:

serge gainsbourg & france gall - dents de lait, dents de loup

OZ

2007-06-01T22:40:00.000+01:00

I've never met so many Australians in my life as I have this year. Maybe it's that horrible drought that's terrorizing their continent. Anyway, I guess I'll give them some notice:

Also, in Australia, people would call me Dazzer for short. They told me so.

Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire (Joakim Remix)

-Daz

Teenaged Remix

2007-05-27T01:41:00.000+01:00

In between 14 hour work days and hiding from my anal roommate (I am not cleaning the bathroom everytime I use it, I don't care what he says), I've managed to learn to computer hack mp3 downloads from myspace. I've been waiting for some danceable Air music, so here's what sounds like a demo version (the end cuts off a little bit). A Radio No. 1 myspace hacking exclusive, as far as I know at least.

Air - Mer Du Japon (The Teenagers Remix)

Uppsala

2007-05-18T03:11:00.000+01:00

From the Fancy Pants-It Dies Vinyl. Sounds like: I-F, Dopplereffekt, good.

Mr Miyagi - Fancy Pants
Mr Miyagi - It Dies

Mr Miyagi @ Myspace

Fox 'n' Wolf

2007-05-18T03:00:00.000+01:00

Both things I have to worry about clobbering me to death every time I go outside in this horrible place. Also black bears. The song is great though.

Fox n' Wolf - Beat Me Up (Bloody Beetroots Rmx)

j.u.s.t.i.c.e.

2007-05-12T19:32:00.000+01:00

et justice pour tous

justice - dvno
justice - stress

SAVAGE

2007-05-10T22:20:00.000+01:00

The Russians still love Savage, and so do I.

Savage - Don't Cry Tonight
Savage - Don't Cry Tonight (Remix)

annie rmx

2007-05-07T03:53:00.000+01:00

not so very new, but while i'm in the middle of the canadian wilderness and waiting to return to scandinavia for a few months, i figured i'd share it with you all.

ps. there are rams with giant horns outside my window, really.

annie - heartbeat (the scumfrog remix)

on video

2007-05-01T15:11:00.000+01:00

Ok, let's get serious.

Here's a hard to find track also produced by Bobby O. I know there's more out there somewhere, but that would probably involve paying money and I've only got 73p and a few Swedish crowns left to my name. So until then,

New York Models - Love On Video

WHAT U NEED IN LIFE

2007-04-29T17:00:00.000+01:00

Pearls of wisdom:

"See, I believe in money, power, and respect.
First you get the money,
Then you get the muthafuckin' power.
After you get the fuckin' power,
Muthafuckas will respect you."

A golden oldie from 1998.

The Lox ft. Lil' Kim & DMX - Money, Power, Respect

cover version: echo beach

2007-04-25T01:54:00.000+01:00

echo beach is my favourite song of all time, really!

originally written by mark gane and performed by martha and the muffins, one of canada's best new wave acts. they're still performing, kind of. i heard one of the marthas works as a professor in toronto now.

anyhow, the muffins' version is an absolutely perfect new wave song, but here's a more electronic toyah remake (also really great) and a remixed version from 2006 also. there's a trance version i found, but it's really awful, so i'll spare you.

martha & the muffins - echo beach
toyah - echo beach
martha & the muffins - echo beach 2006 (db sonic & dj fräggel radio mix)

martha & the muffins on youtube

toyah on youtube

lian ross

2007-04-22T20:34:00.000+01:00

just a little more hi-nrg. you know, the bigger the hair, the closer to god.

lian ross - fantasy
lian ross - say you'll never

filled with desire

2007-04-19T01:41:00.000+01:00

right now i listen to girlpartydancemusic from the 1980s, so that's what you're going to continue to listen to also. this is what showed up when i googled "russians."

bazykina twins - moscow nights (12" version)

mmmmmmmagic

2007-04-17T08:12:00.000+01:00

get it while you can, before it disappears back into the italo desert

Magic - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Extended)
(right click to download)

lili o sussie

2007-04-14T14:35:00.000+01:00

hey, my mom has the same hair as lili and sussie!

anyhow, swedish education at its best

lili och sussie - oh mama

r feist electric?

2007-04-10T19:26:00.000+01:00

now she is.

feist - my moon my man (boys noize remix)

uffie's bangin

2007-04-05T14:55:00.000+01:00

newnewnew uffie remix

uffie - make it hottt (crystal castles remix)

more bobby o

2007-04-01T13:39:00.000+01:00

why didn't i hear about this so much earlier!

here's some flirts

the flirts - all you think about is sex

tomtomtom

2007-03-18T20:13:00.000+01:00

i found it, finally. it's like, totally tropical.

tom tom club - suboceana (12" extended mix)

Being boring...

2007-03-16T02:23:00.000+01:00

no post today just a kissogram...I gonna enjoy this on a club surrounded by skinny beautiful people, a little dazed by the drugs with a hard on in my pants. Feel it?
Is there really time to be boring?
kissogram - my love`s a demoversion

Taxi, taxi!

2007-03-13T19:40:00.000+01:00

Their first release is coming this spring and I'm really excited about it. Guitar, vocals, maybe a bit piano, a slice of drum machine. That's all you need. Here's some "to hide this way" bossanova while waiting for the ep.
myspace

Taxi, Taxi! - To hide this way (Elias Grinds Bossanova remix)

Roni Griffith

2007-03-11T17:07:00.000+01:00

Here's what we know about Roni Griffith:

- In 1979 she met Bobby Orlando, had sexual relations with him, and also a big hit with "Desire"
- Then, she started singing as one of the Coconuts in Kid Creole & The Coconuts (below, centre)
- A few sort of hits between then and 1989
- Now she's a gospel singer and probably has lost her hot bod and big blonde sex hair

But, here you go anyway:

Roni Griffith - Desire (12") (Great synths!)
Roni Griffith - (The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up

The Crashlanders.

2007-03-05T17:42:00.000+01:00

The Crashlanders think it's fun to make music, and sometimes they dance to it. The name of the girl with red pants is Erika. I think they're from Malmö, Sweden. Their album is here for free. Happy dancing.

The Crashlanders - Mellan nätter och begär (now working)

Fun! Fun!

2007-03-03T17:35:00.000+01:00

These girls can party, harder than you I bet.

Fun Fun - Happy Station (Scratch Remix)
(Right-click to download)

Sarah Records

2007-03-01T16:31:00.000+01:00

The aim of sarah was to realease 100 of the worlds best popsingles
1995 they reached their aim and sarah became a memory.
I was thinking to share some of their highlights here
and the first song is crush the flowers with the wake

the wake - crush the flowers'

Frida Hyvönen.

2007-02-27T18:38:00.000+01:00

At least one of our readers already know this song very well, but I have to overlook that fact, because this song's just too beautiful to keep your ears away from. You all know Frida, so I'm not gonna tell you a lot about her. Best experienced while lying on a comfortabel piece of furniture.

Frida Hyvönen - New Messiah

CanCon

2007-02-25T14:54:00.000+01:00

In Canadia we have this thing called CanCon, where they make all the radio stations play 35% canadian content. So, here's my attempt to adhere to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Comission broadcasting standards, even if it is only a minute and a half:

It comes from an an old Simian album from 2002, before they were Simian Mobile Disco.

Peaches & Gonzales - Hot Pink, Hot Sex
(Right click to download)

Are you lickin it or are you chicken shit?

Disco Digitale - Digital love

2007-02-23T17:16:00.000+01:00

There is no time for anything else than the song, I got an exam tomorrow. So here is a little something something for your friday night, aight?

disco digitale - digital love

Sally Shapiro.

2007-02-21T20:04:00.000+01:00

Let's continue on the italo week... Behind Sally Shapiro lies a swedish duo; Johan Agebjörn makes the music and Sally (who's last name seems top secret) contributes with her fragile, naive voice. The music is typically 80's sounding but Sally's song adds a slightly more modern touch to it. Album "Disco Romance" is out since last christmas. Enjoy!

Sally Shapiro - I'll be by your side

no señor

2007-02-20T15:00:00.000+01:00

It's italo week it seems.

I've got just about no pertinent information to give about this, all my data collection sources have failed me. So I guess it will ahve to stand on its own. Don Quixote y Sancho Panza no estan aqui...

Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte
Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte (12" Dance Version)

Hot Cold (Spagna) - love is like a game

2007-02-18T13:40:00.000+01:00

This is a powerful but forgotten italodisco hit. I heard that last time we played this song out there was a guy who went so crazy that he ripped his underwear!

hot cold - love is like a game(high beat remix)
hot cold - love is like a game(extended version)

Hafdis Huld.

2007-02-16T18:54:00.000+01:00

Hafdis Huld is from Iceland, and she's former singer of the band GusGus (which i know nothing about). What I know is that her music slips around somwhere between soft folk pop and (a little bit of) delicate electronica. Hafdis seems to be popular in Iceland and I think she deserves some of our attention too. This song is my favorite so far. Of course a plus for the cute girls in the video. It's hard to hang out with Tomoko...

Hafdis Huld - Tomoko

carla bruni

2007-02-14T19:19:00.000+01:00

Just in time for Valentine's Day...

There's been quite a bit of hype around Carla Bruni in the past few months, so I decided to do some research. I've concluded that the hype is completely unwarranted and that her new album is some awful hybrid of Norah Jones and Keren Ann (nothing against the latter, however). Luckily, I went for her previous album first, which is actually quite nice-sounding. So here it is, "Quelqu'un m'a dit," which translates as "Someone Told Me." The video is a pleasant experience too, like a contemporary Françoise Hardy. Except for the creepy Italian guy in the window behind... I don't know what's up with that.

Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un m'a dit
(Right click to download)

Peter Nilsson - Song for Stina

2007-02-13T13:06:00.000+01:00

A friend of mine, Elin, sent me this song a couple of weeks ago and I instantly liked it and somehow I recognized it. Now I remember that I heard it on L'amour à trois where it was posted a couple of months ago. The song is "Song for Stina" by Peter Nilsson, also a member of CDOASS, and I thought that it would be a nice song to share. To be honest I’ve played it a lot recently and the two lines, "When the two of us are far apart, When there’s no one there to hold you tight", I really like them. The only thing missing for me is someone to associate the song with. You can hear some of Peter Nilssons other songs on his myspace where I’ve stolen the picture of him

peter nilsson - song for stina

Popundret.

2007-02-11T14:53:00.000+01:00

Popundret had their greatest years in the middle of the 90's and released an ep '94, a cds '95 and an album '96. Despite of their catchy Smiths smelling pop, they never got any big audience. Sad because, musically speaking, they had something. Maybe they could have stolen some of Morrissey's star quality... I had a hard time choosing one song, so here are two lovely songs.

Popundret - Shiver gone (from the album "Montmartre 15 40")
Popundret - Stab me (from "Friendship love" CDS)

Replicas

2007-02-08T00:37:00.000+01:00

After watching a performance by Tubeway Army on a DVD of The Old Grey Whistle Test that appeared on the coffee table of a friend's apartment, I am prompted to share a bit more Gary Numan with the world. This one is "Me! I Disconnect From You," from the Replicas album. Synthetic, icy, great.

Tubeway Army - Me! I Disconnect From You

AIH - We died they remixed

2007-02-07T11:24:00.000+01:00

Back in 2005 when the album In case we die was released I met a girl in a pub in Kalmar and after a while we left together. She was examinating my cd/lp collection and she couldn’t find her new favourite album (In case we die ) and went really disappointed with me and took the bus home. (The next week I actually bought the album)

At the end of 2006 AIH released We died they remixed and I immediately fell for the last track Like A Call (Buy Me Now I'm Cheap Remix By Jeremy Dower.) It reminds me of that girl and sounds very smooth and maybe I’m perverted but I can imagine this song as a soundtrack for some kind of soft porn.

AIH - Like A Call (Buy Me Now I'm Cheap Remix By Jeremy Dower)

Alpenpop, Säkert! & Miss Li.

2007-02-05T18:19:00.000+01:00

As Erik wrote I've been away in a foreign country, with almost no signs of civilisation, called Austria. Except from practising my skills in snowboarding, I've also studied the Austrian music scene. Maybe I haven't got the whole picture since the only band I've seen was a swedish after ski band. The Irish people sure liked when they played U2, scary. Although, the last day, the band played Bloc Party and The Smiths for me, so I forgave them. Else it seems like alpenpop is still very popular. Ok, so now to the post. I thought I should have time to post this before i went abroad, but the time ran away from me, as always. So here you are, one week too late.

Säkert! is the new project from Annika Norlin (a.k.a. Hello Saferide). This time she sings in swedish, and it works out totally perfect with me. The first single from the album is called "Vi kommer att dö samtidigt". Makes me dance around my apartment a bit.

Säkert! - Vi kommer att dö samtidigt

This next song might make me dance even more, and it makes me do those presumably stupid looking dance steps. Quite charmy.

Miss Li - Seems like we lost it

Altered Images

2007-02-03T19:27:00.000+01:00

I stumbled across Altered Images about a month ago, and posted it in my own blog, but who knows who's reading that, so I've decided to send it over here in addition.

Altered Images began in the early 1980s and had the support of John Peel and Siouxsie & The Banshees. They had a few hits and then disappeared like just about every other New Wave band, but they left behind some pretty great stuff anyway. The only thing is, they don't really look as cool as they sound...

Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love (Extended)