ELECTRONIC SYSTEM space disco 1977 style

The producer of this 1977 is quite a cool guy.  I won't try to sum up his career so this time I'm gonna give you a strict cut and paste on him.  His name is Daniel Pierre Lacksman.

Synthesizer devotee who has had three major stages in his career: first as a solo artist (with Dan Lacksman Association), then as a member of the successful and witty Telex, and lastly as a producer and sound-engineer for a lot of project in the nineties.
As a solo artist, he recorded 7 singles (and also one together withTwo Man Sound, another Belgian group) and one album. The core of his sound was the Moog organ.
From the end of the seventies, Lacksman was the sound engineer behind the elektropop-pioneers Telex
In the nineties, he came to the forefront once again through his work as a producer for the French project Deep Forest, a mix between the African chants of the rain forest and current technology. He produced their critically acclaimed and very well selling debut album(he took over a year to produce it), but decided not to cooperate with the group on their next recordings because "I wanted to get even more into the studio side of things. The others wanted to make Deep Forest a 'live' thing. I feel this kind of music stands on its own for what it is, exploring these great sounds. I consider the studio my musical instrument."
He then formed his own "exotic" project called Pangea. From the bio at Elektra : Pangea comes from the Greek word "Pan" meaning one. Gea comes from the Greek "Geos" meaning earth. The whole idea of "one earth," a sense of unity, that we are all unified, appeals to me very much. Combine that concept with my respect for technology - look at the internet for example and how it is making us all one continent again, in a way - and you can see where my ideas come from.".

HEAR IT

The two tracks in my zip, Back Home and Cosmos Trip are two from the magical spacey 1977 album Disco Machine.

I CAN'T HIDE by HERBIE italo disco made in Switzerland

Seems like a helluva lot of italo disco songs are one-offs.  This is also increased by the fact that so many artists used aliases and recorded under many other names.  CLICK HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HIDE

This outfit from Switzerland, Herbie, had this one-off Euro/Italo release in 1986.  1986 was probably the last year that there were still a good number of italo disco releases.  The dancefloors were being replaced by house and freestyle at that point.  Even Hi NRG was sort of winding down too by that point.

Gary Langan remixer, audio engineer extraordinaire ABSOLUTE (version) Scritti Politti

British audio engineer and record producer Gary Langan is most responsible for the majesty of this remix.  This version of the Scritti Politti classic Absolute called (version) is the definitive one.  The sound is crisp and simply a synth eruption.  ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL

It's not often on Disco Vinyl that I choose to honor a person that is not the artist but in the case of Gary Langan it's not exactly the case.  He was after all a member of the seminal synthy alternative dance band The Art of Noise.  There are quite a few Art of Noise gems that are also worth honoring in a big way.

The double A side of Close (to the edit) with it's remarkable video and Beat Box come to mind first.  There were many others.  There were even a few I didn't like at all, to be honest.

THE TWINS THE DESERT PLACE

The second single by German act The Twins, The Desert Place was off their The Passion Factory album released in 1981.  Though they came to be known more for Synth Pop and Italo Disco this song is pure new wave.  It's a treasure and a lot more experimental, advanced then their later material.  Though I am a big fan of a lot of their italo disco songs particularly Not the Loving Kind and Ballet Dancer.  THE DESERT PLACE