Like stars shining

Disco videos are seldom dull. Most of them were made in the glitzy late 70's when everyone went disco, with very little self-criticism, so the results are usually pretty hilarious from today's stand point of view. Here's three video takes whose glamour time has ripped apart, loosely lumped together by the theme of flying and stars.



I just had to include this one in. Wade Nichols aka Dennis Parker was an adult entertainment performer and a regular actor who went disco with Casablanca Records. The song is actually quite good (and has been recycled numerous times), but the video is even better. There's so much feeling in his mustached performance, look at him wave around and claim the skies!



Dee D. Jackson's Automatic Lover videos usually have a soft focus lens Barbara Walters would be proud of. This video is all dreamy fantasy, even if some suggest it's a song about vibrators... Anyways, look at the pants of that robot, he's packing a hefty personal robot tool in there. The main vocal melody works really well. BTW, the Finnish cover of this is in demand, so be very happy if you happen to have a copy.



This is rather bizarre. Apparently it's a disco choreographed version of the main Star Wars theme and the Mos Eisley canteen tune. Not one but four Darth Vader's doing spins to a disco beat - win.

Have a good weekend,
- P-Funk

Radio show tomorrow + few MUST-listen mixes

I'm busybusybusy again. Anyways, tomorrow I'm starting my Diskonservatorio radio show which is concentrating on dj's around Turku, my hometown. So tune in at 21 to Zoom FM (93.4). It's every other Thursday, and I'll start taping the interviews the next time - not tomorrow.

Tomorrow's guest is Ripatti, which probably wrong in so many levels of journalistic ethics. And my mind is saying no, but my body, my body... The guest I had asked firstly is sick, so I decided to take the easy option. This gives me chance to do my radio mistakes now and save the good stuff for later, when I get the proper equipment to tape the interviews - my microphone/tape recorder is still on it's way somewhere between Finland and Germany.

Jumping on subjects, here's a few nice mixes I've discovered lately. The first one is a mix of mostly edits from Schmami, I've already hyped about earlier. The second one is nasty roboerotic techno mix from Pepeto, who is also Finnish and gets my bigups from his many other mixes too.

Schmami - Eurolax

The Fog (Schmami edit)
Meeren (Schmami edit)
The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
Max Berlin's - She And I
Ariel (Schmami edit)
Bagarre - For Your Pleasure
Rockets - Astral World
Karusel (Schmami edit)
Täysikuu (Schmami edit)
Mandixxx (Schmami edit)

Pepeto - Pimp Robot

01. Dynamik Bass System - Arabian Dreams
02. Computor Rockers - Computor Interface (USB 2.0)
03. Ozone Layer - Planetary Deterioration (Anthony Rother 1999 Remix)
04. Bijou - Robodisco
05. X-Men - The X-men
06. Luke Eargoggle - Motivated Nation
07. Lizard - This Is Sound
08. Sync 24 - It's A Soft Slip
09. UR - Electronic Warfare
10. Exzakt - Citi Of Bass
11. Anthony Rother - Die Macht
12. Imatran Voima - Techno Slut (Exzakt vs. DBS Mix)
13. Blastromen - Blasteroids
14. Matt Whitehead - Conveyor
15. Alexis Tyrel - Have A Plan, Stick To It

Take care and put the 27th to your calendars. We have some amazing guests lined up.

- P-Funk