Moonlight is the solo project of Santa Cruz synth pop producer Franklin Wong. Wong describes his sound as "Night Drive Disco". A fitting description since his soft, whispered singing and moody melodies inspire the memory of the introspective feeling I'd have as a teenager on the long drive home from a glamourous show in the city. [...]
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In my previous post I reviewed the new MyMy EP which features Emika as a vocalist. She must be a busy girl because just a couple of minutes ago a track from her new and debut release, an EP titled Drop the Other showed up in my inbox. Emika's unique blend of soulful and [...]
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My My’s new EP Price Tag released on Aus Music includes four new dubby techno tracks featuring guest vocalist Emika . Emika’s voice adds an enchanting element of female sensuality and after-dark mystery to these warm and sensual songs. Price Tag is a romantic four to the floor breathy song about desire and attraction. I expect romance to ensue when [...]
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The Skinnerbox ”King of Spades and Marmalades” submission has to be one of the more interesting things to come through the Disco Workout mailbag in a while. Skinnerbox is Berlin based techno duo Olaf Hilgenfeld from Berlin and Iftah Gabbai from Jerusalem. Meeting in 2004 and at that time making music by piano, accordion, and [...]
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FLAIRS - TRUCKERS DELIGHT from 3rd Side Records on Vimeo.Parisian nu-disco group Flairs like to shock and offend just a little to grab your attention. Take for instance their new 8 bit pixel animated music video for “Trucker’s Delight” directed by Jérémie Perin. Perin expands the song’s title into a mini video game [...]
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I saw Kap Bambino at South By Southwest earlier this year and was mesmerized by their supercharged performance. They sound a bit like Crystal Castles + Adult. + Salem, but French. I ‘m sure they’re incredibly tired of hearing that sort of comparison but dammit its true, and a very winning formula. I actually DJ’d [...]
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I recently spoke to Vincent “V4″ Vendetta, the lead singer for Midnight Juggernauts, about the band’s as-yet-still-untitled upcoming new album. It sounded almost exactly like this, except that I cleaned up the language tics such as “ums”, “erms”, ellipses and half-completed sentences that would otherwise result from overly literally transcribing human speech, because I’m not [...]
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I discovered LA’s Tearist on Myspace last night and fell in love with their goth disco freak scene. Equal parts Salem, Siouxsie and Suicide, William and Yasmine make some beautiful, loud synthpunk.mp3: “1963 (Rough)” - TearistTearist have a bunch of DiscoWorkout approved shows in LA this week including Wednesday night at the Smell with HEALTH [...]
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By day, 20-year old multi instrumentalist/producer Zach Robinson is a music composition student at Northwestern University in Chicago. By night, he shapeshifts into a fusion of Jan Hammer, Eddie Van Halen and Kavinsky and, as D/A/D, becomes the human embodiment of the year 1985: equal parts synth funk and shred metal, Herbie Hancock and Loose [...]
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Telonius‘ new music video cuts up amazing footage from the afrofuturistic Sun Ra videos. Check out this color saturated, psychedelic vision!Sun Ra’s “Space is the Place” video from 1974 is a 5:00 minute psychedelic time-traveling vacation.Watch Sun Ra - Space Is the Place - 1974.avi in Entertainment | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
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Bot’Ox is the french electronic pop of Julien Biffaz and Benjamin Boguet (AKA Cosmo Vitelli and one half of Tekel). Bot’Ox have accomplished world admiration with their acclaimed releases on DFA, DC recordings, Grand Central and I’m A Cliché.”Blue Steel” is a mellow French pop song filtered through quirky Pong video game sounds, digital delay, [...]
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I recently decided that we should start posting more mixes by ridiculously good looking people. Happily, I recently heard Casual Touch DJing a set of outrageously dope vintage non-electronic disco on the rooftop of the Standard Hotel. He generously agreed to put an exclusive mix together for DiscoWorkout and then I, like a big dumb [...]
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Fan Death is the Vancouver, BC based music and video project of Marta Jaciubek-McKeever and Dandilion Wind Opaine aka punk-art music performer, Dandi Wind. Fan Death are inspired by gloomy and pensive early 1980s electronic artists such as Depeche Mode, OMD, New Order, The Human League, and Soft Cell. They hope to [...]
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Whats up y’all? Pozi back in the house with a very special mixed to get you amped up for the Halloween weekend.Dj Dials is one of my favs in San Francisco, straight killing dancefloors one at a time. At the moment, he’s rolling through Europe with Lazer Sword, so if your’re over that way, check [...]
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≈ Hey! What’s up? Pozi’s back….with some bad news Unfortunately, Ghosthustler is dead and will never release an actual album. Boo on that because amidst all this noise, they were able to penetrate my dark side and cut through my heart with thier synth knifes. They are so freakin’ good, hands down. And upon [...]
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DiscoWorkout.com faves Dragonette are finally hitting the U.S. in support of their new album Fixin to Thrill this week…indeed, they’re probably going onstage in Portland RIGHT NOW AS I BLOG! Here’s the Richard X remix and video for their second single “Pick Up The Phone”:mp3: “Pick Up The Phone (Richard X Remix - Radio Edit)” [...]
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DJ Maxx Bass DJ Maxx Bass getting his hair cut by his best friend Luke. Notice his awesome record collection in the background?Portland, Oregon DJ and local hero Jared White also known as Maxx Bass sent us his Halloween mix titled “Fear The Night” to get us in the spooky disco spirit! His massive [...]
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Digits is the indie electronic pop music of Alt Altman from Toronto. He's just released his first album titled Hold It Close for free high quality mp3 download at Bandcamp. Digits sound like Junior Boys if Erlend Oye were singing for them. This is good introspective electronic pop perfect for this moody time of year. If you're finding yourself alone and melancholy on [...]
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Ghostly International are sharing a new EP from Danish duo Syntaks in preparation for the group’s full album release on Nov 3rd. Syntaks is comprised of the speechless, hushed singing of Anna Cecilia and the thoughtfully placed oceanic melodies, stuttering beats, and distortions of producer Jakob Skott. Mistral Moon (Illuminated Version) is a triumphant love song that would be [...]
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I was just thinking today how I wish a really cool band would submit something to the vip@discoworkout.com for us to post. We get a lot of submissions every day and I spend a lot of time listening to what comes in, but lately there has been nothing quite what I’m looking for. I am [...]
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