Scene of the Day – Death Line (Gary Sherman, 1972)
Couldn’t find a UK poster for Death Line anywhere, so unfortunately the visual accompaniment above is the poster for it’s US release, under the rubbish title of Raw Meat. Given the sheer scope for subterranean transport-based terror, I think it’s a crying shame that there isn’t a truly classic horror [...]
Single Of The Day – Change – Let’s Go Together
Classic bit of smooth 80s disco from Jacques Fred Petrus’ Change. Often derided as Chic copycats, Change in fact made some very good records (‘Paradise’, ‘Change Of Heart’. This was the last single they released as Petrus died in 1986 and was later sampled by Jazzy M for his his hit [...]
Single of the Day – Cloud One – Dust To Dust
I’m a bit ill today, so its going to be a quick one from disco lords Patrick Adams and Peter Brown. A sultry, sexy and slinky disco bomb, it’s effortless soul and funk grooves have inspired a whole raft of producers from Madlib to Kenny Carpenter. Anway, its making me [...]
Single of the Day – A.I.M – So Evil (Close To The Edge) (instrumental)
Hello everybody! I’m back from my hols (well, I was back a few days ago but you know how it is) and to ease myself back in to the crazy ol’ rat race we call life, I thought this 1984 Italian Records classic would do the trick. Definitely one of my [...]
Single of the Day – Paul Mauriat – Love Is Still Blue (long version)
It sure is Paul. It sure is. Anyway…. I’m off to Berlin for a few days, so to soften the blow here’s a easy-listening disco song for ya from light-music composer/conductor Paul Mauriat . Best known for his version of Andre Popp’s ‘Love Is Blue’, this is the 1973 ’disco’ version. When Salsoul [...]
Single of the Day – Janis Ian – Fly Too High
Who’d have thought that Janis ‘At Seventeen’ Ian recorded a sexy disco song? Well she did and she did it with the one and only Giorgio Moroder. The pair teamed up in 1979 to record a song for the Jodie Foster-starred movie ‘Foxes’ (no, me neither but its got Jodie in [...]