Monday, February 25, 2008

Love in C Minor

I found my DeLorean again, and this year in the relaunched whiteboydancefloor it is going to get a fair workout as I aim to do some serious crate digging and time traveling. Sure the car might be a little dusty, rust may be setting in inside the passenger door hinge and I don't own any 8-track tapes to play in that bizarre contraption in the dash. I got in, and here is where it went to.




The blueprint for house was created by Disco, which when you listen to music such as Cerrone's, you get a strange sense of deja vu, as it sounds like so much of the house music released over the past decade. All the music you hear in wanky bars today is heavily inflenced by this amazing period in music history.

C minor is the best key for love, apparently. And this sleazy and debaucherous disco sound is the best backing track for making some of that love. The sleaze is only heightened by Cerrone's disgraceful moustache and that incredibly filthy bass line.

MP3: Cerrone - Love in C Minor





MP3: Kebekelektrik - War Dance

Computer and music were in the early days of their courtship at this stage, and by the sound of Kebekelektrik's 'War Dance', they were keen to consumate the relationship. This is disco's equivalent of tantric, lengthy opuses of seductive and synthentic disco grooves that keep the enjoyment for around 9 minutes. Not quite how long it takes to get from wherever in the universe this music was made back to Earth, but long enough for me.


More recounts of my adventures from the 1970's discotheques to come..... And yes there will be some Moroder.

3 comments:

Javid van der Piepers said...

"Computer and music were in the early days of their courtship at this stage, and by the sound of Kebekelektrik's 'War Dance', they were keen to consumate the relationship."

already up for quote of the year. then i WENT to the song. sounded fun and kraftwerkish to begin with, got repetetive about 40 seconds in, then i see it goes for EIGHT MINUTES. christ.

Anonymous said...

it is quite lengthy but i still think it is dynamic enough over that length to keep the interest, especially through the middle of the track


what amazes me the most is how ahead of its time this song sounds, it was made in 1977 and it could have easily been released today and would still sound fresh

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