NO-one here would admit it. But last night after coming home frim a gig, I was listening in the car to some DJ mixes, and sure there were a little innaresting, but it occurred to me whats the really *COOL* pervasive sound : THE STARS ON 45 !!!
Now I know most of you fellas out there prolly weren't even born when this MASSIVE EURO PHENOMENA was number 1 everywhere, but it was basically the sginifier of the END OF DISCO around late 1980-81. It was basically putting a disco beat to 60s hits like the Beatles, Beach Boys etc... and it was terrible, blech 'orrible'..
SO now the DJ mixes do 'Stars on 45' to tracks by Gwen Stefani, Franz Ferdinand, shiot I even heard a SHOCKING remix of possibly of the the BEST dance trax of the 80s Blancmange's one-off masterstroke 'Living on the Ceiling'!! (yeah those Morrocan/Arabic inflections would be oh-so trendy with the urban-agit-prop set, it amazes no-ones capitalised on it!)
For all the appaerent advances of post-modernism (really has it ever done ANYTHING good since early hiphop, get honest here), it seems where we are now in 2005 the genre, sound whatever it is, is completely redundant.
But I do know there are Dissensus out there that can prove me wrong - I'm all ears - enlighten otherwise!
Now I know most of you fellas out there prolly weren't even born when this MASSIVE EURO PHENOMENA was number 1 everywhere, but it was basically the sginifier of the END OF DISCO around late 1980-81. It was basically putting a disco beat to 60s hits like the Beatles, Beach Boys etc... and it was terrible, blech 'orrible'..
SO now the DJ mixes do 'Stars on 45' to tracks by Gwen Stefani, Franz Ferdinand, shiot I even heard a SHOCKING remix of possibly of the the BEST dance trax of the 80s Blancmange's one-off masterstroke 'Living on the Ceiling'!! (yeah those Morrocan/Arabic inflections would be oh-so trendy with the urban-agit-prop set, it amazes no-ones capitalised on it!)
For all the appaerent advances of post-modernism (really has it ever done ANYTHING good since early hiphop, get honest here), it seems where we are now in 2005 the genre, sound whatever it is, is completely redundant.
But I do know there are Dissensus out there that can prove me wrong - I'm all ears - enlighten otherwise!