Saturday 3 October 2009

look what happened when the bee gees weren't looking



Early 80's disco is one of the best kept secrets in music, until now. Fake Blood, a name synonymous with dance-floor filling electro, has dropped one of the greatest disco tunes since circa 1984. "I Think I Like It" has .blown.my.mind. it sounds more like a remix of some ancient Italian disco than a new track from the guy who brought you "Mars" and "The Paddle". This all new tune with it's cut and pasted vocals, slap bassline and splashed hi-hat retains Fake Blood's jerky, epic style while having it's roots firmly buried in the early 80's underground disco scene. Italo disco has recently seen a small resurgence in popularity thanks to DJ's and producers such as Erol Alkan, DJ Shadow, Black Devil Disco- and now Fake Blood can be added to the list of music makers championing a genre of music which has, for inexplicable reasons, dropped off the radar for 25 years. I think there's an argument that John Travolta and The Bee Gees killed disco, luckily now the Bee Gees are half dead and John Travolta is too wrapped up in Scientology to ruin it for the rest of us so with any luck we will be hearing more of the same from Fake Blood and the others who, like myself, love the drama of a synthesised bassline and string section strung together like lift music on the Death Star.

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