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betamaxed - 2017-02-05

This is definitely a top jam for this saturday night


Old_Zircon - 2017-02-05

You should definitely dig in to Hi-NRG in general then. I'm not expert on it, but there's a lot of stuff as good as this, it's pretty much the English speaking counrties' version of Italo Disco.


A quick glance at Wikipedia suggests that it's actually a bit older than Italo Disco and was the predecessor.


Old_Zircon - 2017-02-05

I assume it was when the whole "one guy in a studio apartment with an 8 track and a bunch of instruments pumping out disco singles" school of music, which is where a lot of the best and worst stuff since 1980 or so has come from.


I couldn't name any tracks or producers but I back in college I heard from a couple people who lived through that period as producers and engineers (not of disco though, these were usually 80s demo studio guys who were criticizing it for being lifeless and mechanical - which is what makes it sound interesting) that, since this was before the wide availability of programmable drum machines, much less digital drum machines, it was common practice for the producer to record each drum in a separate take to make sure it stayed really repetitive and metronomic, so they' record, say, an entire track worth of just kick along with a metronome, then overdub just snare or snare and hi-hat together, and often just leave it at that.


Old_Zircon - 2017-02-05

Anyhow, I fell in love with this stuff in the mid 2000s when I was living with my girlfriend and we were both really in to the whole weird, 80s aerobicsploitation genre of movies, but that was after the electroclash thing had died out but before the 80s revival of the 2010s had started, when people would still make fun of you for appearing on stage with rack gear and everyone just wanted to play stoner metal (which is cool too) so I never really could find anyone else who wanted to make anything like this at the time, and i didn't think I had the equipment to do it alone, although in retrospect I should have tried, since I had a guitar, a Korg Poly61, and a commodore 64, and that would have actually been plenty to do something interesting.


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