I’ll be busy with festival business for the next week and doubt I’ll be able to post much of anything. Before I go I’ll leave you with one of this summer’s definitive records over here in Helsinki, as promised last week… Sommartid (1981) Uggla’s Swedish-sung disco pop jam was revived by Stockholm legend Mika Snickars a few summers back and finally arrived upon these shores this year… and now you can’t escape it. It’s pretty damn good still, definitely worth grabbing even for the non-Swedish speakers. Enjoy.
Back in 1979 Kraftwerk’s record label commissioned Roger Mainwood to do an animated film based on Autobahn, which was subsequently released on one of the first ever laser discs. The film went to win various prizes at animation festivals and was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival.
I have this on a US 12″, but I kinda wish i had the UK one as well because the cover (above) is so dope. From what I’ve gathered the song was huge there. Originally it hails from New York (kind of obvious isn’t it?) and was produced by Lonnie Johnson of Shades Of Love and Marta Acuna fame.
Shout outs to my partner DJ Fiskars who put this on a mix way back and had me rewind it for days.
There was a legit reissue 12″ with all the relevant versions of Problèmes sometime last year, it’s still out there so go get it. Also, dude is still putting out quality electronic music so check him out. Visit Discogs for more info.
I’m not a big italo head by any means, but I know a cool synthesizer groove when I hear one. Recently I stumbled on a stack of italo 12″s and for my money this was the best of the bunch. Panorama: War In Love (Instrumental)(1985)
There’s not much I can say about this track that hasn’t been said before so I’ll just say it sounds as fresh today as the day I first heard it. The link below is the 12″ version, which as far as I can tell is identical to the album version but with better sound quality. Was Dog A Doughnut (Disco Version) (1977)
