From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V10 #100 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, December 26 2005 Volume 10 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Merry Christmas [Elaine ] Re: Re: Alloy: Dolby did disco??!?!? ;^) [not!] ["Paulo" Subject: Alloy: Merry Christmas Glad tidings to you all! Hope today finds you well, and in the company of those you love. This year marked the passing of our fearless leader's compatriot Bob Moog, so it's fitting to offer this rendition of Silent Night, in memory. http://www.falalalala.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=1 (I love that, Falalalala dot com.) I got my tickets in the mail today. :-) Nervous excitement awaits the new year! There are twenty-two souls coming to my house tomorrow. 'Nite. E ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:54:44 -0200 From: "Paulo" Subject: Re: Re: Alloy: Dolby did disco??!?!? ;^) [not!] mizmusic wrote: > For heaven's sake, is that ever interesting!!! Gawd do I wish I had been old enough then to hear Dolby's stuff played in discos and clubs, but oh well. :^) Maybe Dolby's music was sort of considered "disco" because nobody had ever heard anything quite like it before, so it had to be forced into an existing category because of the tendency of the human mind to only be able to relate to what it already knows...? Hello mizmusic. When someone says DISCO, the type of music that comes to mind is Village People's Macho Man or Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive. Of course, SBMWS has no common point with those maily because its alien-all-electronic sound (for the early 80's). Here in Brazil the term for that type of music was TECHNO-POP, but the DISCO MIXES of technopop songs were SYNTH POP DISCO, to make is sure it was a diffrent thing from 70's DISCO. I am not afraid to say that I love disco music, but the type I like is not the pop crap I mentioned above (Village People, Bee Gees). At the time, there was an underground type of disco (these days called DEEP DISCO) with songs around 10 to 15 minutes long, which were mainly intrumental with complex arrangements blending keyboards, lush strings plus brass, horns, trumpet solos, sax sologs, over tons of percussion. The main artists recorded for clubs and as the songs were long, they generally never made it to the radio. The main artists were EL COCO, GREG DIAMOND, LE PAMPLEMOUSSE, SAINT TROPEZ, MIKE THEODORE ORCHESTRA, SALSOUL ORCHESTRA, THP ORCHESTRA, RINDER AND LEWIS, TUXEDO JUNCTION, CERRONE, etc... As far as I know, the term DEEP DISCO was created this decade... so a sophisticated instrumental 10 minute plus track would not be thrown in the same bandwagon as crappy commercial disco like the Village People's YMCA. The term may have its origins as an analogy to the DEEP HOUSE movement, whose songs are more complex and mainly instrumental if compared to the avarege commercial HOUSE music. > > > > There was another Dolby DISCO track called BUILD ME A BRIDGE, although I > > don't remember hearing it at a club. I just know it because I am a Dolby > > collector. > > Now THERE's a song I haven't heard...again, oh well. :^) It is a twelve inch single recorded by ADELE BERTEI. Thomas played and produced the song, but doesn't sing on it. Kara, if you get the chance, grab the record. The song is really beautiful. > And *another* song I'm not really familiar with--I've heard a bit of it on and it sounds like an awesome track, though!!! The video looks interesting, one-inch-square that it is... ;^) You have to have FIELD WORK Kara. There is a RYUISHI SAKAMOTO CD released only in Japan wich has 4 versions of it: the radio edit, the London Mix, The Tokyo Mix and Tokyo Radio Edit. That song is really beautiful with an ultra high tech approach to it. It sounds very futuristic even today. There was another Sakamoto CD, in which he plays FIELD WORK with a band (no electronics). It is very diffrent from the Dolby version. It has a live band feel to it. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V10 #100 ****************************