Two spacious tracks that I've listened to again and again and again:
Timerider's track is the more jolly one, really upbeat and positive, and the track you listen to when you're out picking space-nuts, or whatever you do in a unitard on a super-super happy day.
The songwriter had some success with a bunch of remixes of Italo Disco and synthpop, for example Scotch, Koto's 'Visitors', some Pet Shop Boys singles, and also did a megamix for ZYX back in the day. He also released records as Fancy and was a member of The Hurricanes, both of who did really, really well done and well sounding stuff, but rather, er, basic. (Sorry!)
This, however, is exactly what we like.
Timerider - Cocoon
Listen / Buy: GEMM / eBay / Music Stack
(Don't expect to find it with that fancy cover above, because it's homemade. It expresses my feelings.)
Donna Laser Orchestra created the much more serious and worldly big brother. Almost complicating your ears by being so melancholic, but slowly it builds up and becomes nothin' but royal. If the other track is prince Harry, this is prince William. Respect.
Donna Laser Orchestra - Vega Synthauri
The producers behind this one did a lot of weird stuff: pop, chanson, Engelbert Humperdinck, some Italo-Disco, a Star Wars cover record, and...Ivana Spagna's 'Lion King' album. Yes my friend, that Ivana Spagna, and the Lion King. It's a musical buffet!
p.s. it's a little hard to find, but you can find copies on Discogs...
Comments(4)
I'm a big fan of these too. I believe Vega Synthauri is based on Jean Michel Jarre's Equinoxe Pt 4... they either replay or sample it. It would be interesting if they sampled it, maybe the first (and only!) sample in Italo disco.
Nice cover Halli!
Written 31.03.08 14:17
Hmm, interrrresting. Perhaps they used a Fairlight?
Written 31.03.08 16:48
Nice stuff, Halli. So upbeat and fun - the snow melts....
Written 02.04.08 19:33
Yeah, Defcon 4 doesn't stand a chance against this stuff.
Written 14.04.08 10:23