NEW MIXES OF CLASSIC ITALO DISCO NOT TO BE MISSED!!! DJ FRICTION

Here is his MixCloud page where you can hear his last two italo disco mixes.  FRICTION MIXCLOUD

Here just below his pics is the fabulous track list for the mix which I am providing you the download link for.  If you ask nicely maybe Friction will upload the other two.  As you can see he doesn't joke, this is serious italo disco for the lovers of space italo.  GRAB MIX #3 HERE

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1.Boss Man

bySteel Mind

2.Deep

byFlexx

3.Systems Breaking Down (Dub)

byANNA

4.Africa (Dub)

byKey Of Dreams

5.Revolution

byMartinelli

6.Space Operator

by4M International

7.On And On (Fear Keep On) (Dub)

byDecadence

8.Funky Now

byFlyrox

9.Gee Wiz

byDoctor’s Cat

10.Xenon Galaxy (Theme Version)

byXenon

11.Self Control

byRAF

12.Keep On Music

byDanny Keith

13.Mi Amor

byPlasic Mode

14.An English 93

byI.M.S.

15.Penguins Invasion (Hot Version)

byScotch

16.End Title (Theme From Blade Runner)

byHypnosis

17.Droid

byMito

18.Not Love

byTrilogy

19.The Ultimate Warlord

byThe Immortals

20.Catch

bySun La Shan

21.Dirty Talk (Original & Dub)

byKlein & M.B.O.

22.Robot Is Systematic (Frico Edit)

by`lectric Workers

MOSKOW DISCOW TELEX

Telex was formed as an all-electronic disco pop band in 1978 by radio DJ/jazz musician Marc Moulin, programmer/sound engineer Dan Lacksman and vocalist Michel Moers.  I became acquainted with them with their 3rd single.  The seminal new wavey, italo, disco bomb Moskow Diskow.

Sire had such a knack for signing artists and they found their home on the seminal label in the U.S.  In Europe they actually had a few hit singles.  On the U.S. dance charts Moskow Diskow made it up to #36 but managed to stay on the charts an impressive 16 weeks while the follow-up Euro Vision/Dance to the Music/Twist to St. Tropez only got up to #45.  They managed to hit the U.S. dance charts one more time with Peanuts which made it to #45 in 1988.

Since I loved Kraftwerk RAZORMAID REMIX OF THE TELEPHONE CALL so much this seemed like a tune that was greatly influenced by them.  Funny that the name of the band Telex seemed so cool and cutting edge in the seventies but now it represents something that is practically obsolete.
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Just above is the cover for their 2006 release.  I had no idea they were still around.  They probably re-grouped because EDM is so popular.

Someone told me that Sylvia Striplin works as a nurse now

You Can't Turn me Away and Give Me Your Love got the most attention on the phenomenal Roy Ayers produced Sylvia Striplin l.p. released on Uno Melodic Records in 1981.

Searchin' ONUR ENGIN EDIT

But my favorite was Searchin'. It's simply sultry lush disco. I was still pretty new to Ebay when I posted my white label Promo and I was pleased to see it fly up to near $200.00. I've noticed that it's one of those 12" which continues to attract the high bids. Seems like on Ebay certain records fall out of favor and other ones get hot. But Sylvia Striplin seems to be a consistent hot bid.

I don't usually post edits but this one rocks so hard that I felt it should be exposed.


Whatever happened to her anyway? She did have a follow-up 12" release on Rissa Chrissa entitled, Keep Pushing and Going Home in 1982. These too are also rather rare but I don't have them. I would love to get them eventually though.

here's the wikipedia on her:

Sylvia Striplin (born March,1954) is a New York based jazz, soul and R&B vocalist. Sylvia was the youngest of five children. After a fire destroyed their home on Sugarhill in Harlem, the family moved to the North Bronx in New York—there Sylvia honed her craft. Sylvia loved singing. She made up songs on the family piano and sang them around the house. She took piano lessons during her grade school years and performed in recitals. She began singing professionally with neighborhood friends, Gus Falcon and Malcolm Ballinger as a teenager. After high school, Sylvia attended City College in Harlem where she was praised for her performance in the College's production of Anything Goes. During the 1970s, Sylvia found work as a backup singer. In the late 70s she auditioned for the role of Dorothy inThe Wiz and was selected as the second understudy with the New York Company. She was eventually selected to play Dorothy in the road company production, traveling to Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities, receiving excellent reviews along the way.

During the late 1970s, Sylvia became a member of Aquarian Dream and worked with funk, jazz, R&Band soul, vibraphonist Roy Ayers, in his group Ladies of the Eighties, recording one album with each group. Ayers signed Sylvia to his Uno Melodic record label. where she recorded an album with him, an extended single of her own - Give Me Your Love, then her first solo album of the same name Give Me Your Love

Her song, "You Can't Turn Me Away" the flip side of her single and a track on her solo album was featured on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, playing on quiet storm station VCFL. It was also in the romantic comedy film Prime and the mini-film Ecology of Love with Pharrell Williams. This song also serves as the basis for the Notorious B.I.G/Junior M.A.F.I.A.hit, "Get Money" on BigBeat Records, subsidiary of Atlantic. BigBeat label chief Craig Kallman is the judge in the video for this song which then received numerous awards. Erykah Badu also covered this song for her 2010 track "Turn Me Away (Get MuNNY)" on the album New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh). "Give Me Your Love" was sampled by Armand Van Helden in "Full Moon" (ft. Common).

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