Asian Dan

This is new Justice album is quite promising. All I keep hearing is Queen “Flash Gordon”, later ELO mixed with Dire Straits produced by Yellow Magic Orchestra which is something I totally am fine with. I am glad that someone like Justice are being the ambassadors of this classic sound. Now I am off to listen to Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing”.

Download: Justice “Audio, Video, Disco” Medley

JUSTICE “Audio, Video, Disco.” medley by edbangerrecords

Justice is still on their pursuit of becoming ELO circa “Time” and The Buggles circa “The Age of Plastic” with the title single “Audio, Video Disco”. At first listen the track did not do anything for me but paired with the visual of music video via So-Me their vision they are trying to get across becomes clearer as they are just trying to be a 70s Prog Rock band. Love they use a CP-80 and a Mellotron in the music video, attention to detail is everything. I will always be a sucker for behind the scenes Powerpop montage videos and Rock and Roll cliches.

Download: JUSTICE “AUDIO VIDEO DISCO” (video edit)
[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/Sept%202011/Justice-Audio-Video-Disco.mp3]

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Breakbot crafts this slick disco mini mix, packing it full of all the classic French dance tracks as well the smoothest disco around. I love Breakbot.

[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/March%202009/breakbot%20minidiscomix.mp3]
Breakbot – Disco Mini Mix – Dance on Glass Mix 03

Music Go Music is a LA based group signed to Secretly Canadian Records that sound like they are trapped in the late 70s, in every good way possible. They channel the likes of ABBA, ELO, Olivia Newton John, Giorgio Moroder, Sparks and other elements of disco and Italo (all music I am loving right now). It is amazing how they nailed the production/songwriting style. They take the best elements of this stylized and dated era of music and inject it with a new energy. This epic/power pop sound is what music needs right now.

“Warm in The Shadows” has a slinky/badass Italo vibe with a very ABBA-esque/Donna Summers’ whispery vocal sound. Reminds me of Italians Do It Better’s Chromatics.
[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/Jan%202009/warmintheshadows.mp3]
Music Go Music – Warm In The Shadows

Totally ABBA meets ELO.
[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/Jan%202009/lightoflove.mp3]
Music Go Music – Light Of Love

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Secretly Canadian Records

Lime – You’re My MagicianThis might be the best song to come out of the year 1981. Lime, a husband and wife duo from Montreal produced this track. This is the most infectious synthline I have ever heard in my life. This is begging to be sampled.
Lime – Discogs.com