Including a fine example of the disco call. The Groove Line by Heatwave. Read the rest
Heatwave helps leave your worries behind
Disco Beethoven, in honor of his birthday!
In honor of Ludwig van Beethoven's 245th birthday today, here is Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven" (1976). Can you dig it? I knew that you could.
Photos of Studio 54 (1978-1980)
Photographer Tod Papageorge's new book Studio 54 documents the infamous 1970s New York City disco during its coke and boogie-fueled heyday. See a sampling of the photos over at Paper and buy a copy from publisher Stanley/Barker here.
Papageorge writes:
“The 66 photographs in this book were made between 1978-80 in Studio 54, a New York discothèque that, for a handful of years, was the place where celebrities, partygoers, and those crazy for dancing most wanted to be and be seen. Because of this, it was difficult to get into: the imperturbable doormen who doled out access according to rules that only they seemed to know made sure of it. The most evident way of winning them over was to be beautiful, but only the famous or socially connected could assume that they’d be shooed around the flock of hopefuls milling on the street side of the entrance rope and through the door. Once inside, though, everyone there seemed thrilled by the fact, no matter how they managed to accomplish it, a feeling fed by the throbbing music and the brilliantly designed interior, which, from night to night, could suggest anything from Caliban’s cave to a harem.”
The Disco Dungeon of Skyrim
Tiff Chow reports a particularly strange glitch in the PS3 version of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Anyone remember Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall? It had the best bugs. I had a levitating horse in Daggerfall, but my one in Skyrim can't even step over a damned log.
Here is a mandatory soundtrack to be played simultaneously with the above YouTube:
Schoolkids vs. disco Illuminati
In this performance from 1982, schoolchildren face off against the disco Illuminati of Pink Project, their dueling renditions of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (part 2) and Alan Parsons Project's Mammagamma merging into a groovy mashup a fair few years ahead of its time. An extended mix is also available. If you like it, the next stop is Pink Project's mix of Jean Michele Jarre's Oxygene and APP's Hyper Gamma Spaces. The next stop after that is paying too much for a tatty vinyl at eBay Italy. Read the rest
