Stock Aitken Waterman were arguably the biggest hitmaking production team of the 80s, producing and co-writing smashes such as Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Right Round”, Kylie Minogue’s I Should Be So Lucky” and both Rick Astley and Bananarama’s biggest hits. Their first ever production as a team was a one-off 12″ in 1984 [...]
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Electronically infused post punk outfit, Reporter from Portland, Oregon released their second album, a luxurious gate fold double LP titled, “Time Incredible” on Holocene Music yesterday. This album is dedicated to dancing, but not for the sake of wild abandon alone. There is an interesting dynamic between the ethereal and earthly at play. [...]
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DJ Harrison is a resident DJ at Brooklyn’s weekly dark dance party PENDU DISCO. PENDU DISCO has had guests such as Black Devil Disco Club, S4LEM, Light Asylum, Gatekeeper, White Ring, Excepter, Medio Mutante, Tearist, Led Er Est, White Car, Mirror Mirror, Blondes, NO BRA, Omega Jarden, Hounds of Hate, Laurel Halo, Slava, and [...]
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Nostalgia tastes like cupcakes.MP3: “Star Wars” – Mecoxx,Baron von Luxxury is My Fake Name@luxxury
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Pacific Housing Authority is a collective of friends from the west coast of the U.S. who make house music predominantly with hardware. This summer the collective hit the road to assure that bodies will be a jackin’ on the west coast. Pacific Housing Authority is currently comprised of Global Warning, Solenoid, The Miracles [...]
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Violet Tremors is the darkwave synthesizer music of long time friends, Jessica White and Lorene Simpson. Their moody, atmospheric, electronic music paired with assertive monotone female vocals captures the essence of my fantasies of Los Angeles at night. This is music for dancing in a red wine or absinthe delirium surrounded by colored [...]
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Bestial Mouths from Los Angeles make the music for that feeling of existential dread that suddenly haunts your life, reminding you of the death and rot your body advances towards with each passing second. However, don’t let that sort of thing get you down. What value would life and youth have without mortality and [...]
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Yard is the atmospheric techno of Portlander Chris Jones. With synths droning like a tambura, John Carpenter style arpeggios and stabs, Drexciya-esque oscillator modulation, and a 4/4 techno beat, this spacey track from Yard sounds like the next futuristic sci-fi film I wanna see. Yard-Waves of Love
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Portland’s sexiest electro funk band,Starlight & Magic made a music video recently for their Vanity 6 cover “Drive Me Wild”. Mirror images of Starlight’s lovely visage, her dances atop massive boom boxes, and 80s kitsch make for a fun and humorous glimpse into this band’s aesthetic and performance style. Check out Starlight & Magic’s [...]
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I’ve been in love with //TENSE// ever since the first time I heard them via the Tommyboy video for “Turn It Off”. //TENSE// – Turn It Off from tommy boy on Vimeo.//TENSE// is the amplified echos of the screaming souls anchored to the almost forgotten WaxTrax! realm. Prophecies channeled through the [...]
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Jewels of the Nile is the electro-dark-dance project by the ladies of Magick Daggers. Aquarians born in the year of the Tiger, the two came together to perform a Solstice rite conjuring the Marquesa Casati, which lit the fire for the music frenzy that followed.Jessy Montaigne, of the deceased-but-not-forgotten all femme SF group Subtonix, singer, [...]
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Cosmetics // Soft Skin from Portland moving images group, Wooden Lens like to dress their favorite songs in the found footage treasures they find. In this video, they pair Cosmetics‘ “Soft Skin” with a video collage of stunning high society women of the 50s, maggots, cosmetic worship, and creepy insects.Cosmetics have a new 7? [...]
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As an exceptional musician, visual artist, DJ, party promoter, and label owner Eric Mast aka E*Rock has contributed massively to the thriving Portland arts and music culture for over a decade. His positivity, open-mindedness, and love for the community he lives in has helped build the warm, creative environment that artists in [...]
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This is the best prog pop rock song in 3/2 about an alien abduction ever:MP3: “Keep it Dark” – Genesisxx,Baron von Luxxury is My Fake Name@luxxury
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Here is Justin Faust’s new mixtape. He got the exclusive of my song “Minotaur”, which can be heard about halfway through the mix starting at about 24:05.I’ve been jamming on this mixtape a while but this is the first chance I got to to finally put it up! Justin Faust Flutschfinger Mixtape 2010DELS – ShapeshiftMr. [...]
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Disco Workout favorites Midnight Juggernauts are in the USA on a short tour supporting the release of a limited edition double 12? of their new album The Crystal Axis on Acephale. The tour starts tonight in NYC and heads Westward, ho, for a coupla LA dates next week:7/22/10 Santos – New York, NY7/23/10 Voyeur – [...]
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When I first wandered upon the Animal Bodies MySpace, I thought after reading their name and seeing the dark imagery on their page, that the music they make would be an auditory interpretation of meat and death and nihilism. I guessed wrong, it is pretty much the opposite. It is [...]
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Innergaze is the minimal synth pop project of Aurora Halal and Jason Letkiewicz of Brooklyn, NY. Their sound is dark like bedroom lighting: sexy and mood setting. Their analog synths buzz noisily, yet happily like machines in ecstasy over their purpose. Delicate melodies play through the songs like a lover’s gentle caress. [...]
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I got a special treat in my inbox yesterday from my friend and fellow Portlander DJ Rainbow Pudding. He made an all vinyl mix just for Disco Workout which I am really proud and excited to share with all of you lovely Disco Workout readers out in the vast universe. DJ Rainbow Pudding’s [...]
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