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Mike Simonetti of Troubleman Unlimited has been keeping busy with his new disco-inspired Italians Do It Better label, releasing that Glass Candy EP I posted about a ways back, and this downtempo disco for the Jazzercise-set LP by Portland’s Chromatics. A nice slab of mellow, Moroder/Mancuso inspired dance music that’s perfect for long drives. Ian Svenonius put up a good argument for disco being one of America’s only true D.I.Y. movements, with the whole “Disco Sucks” rhetoric from the dying days of punk as nothing more than racist backlash to its success and historical revisionism in music, so don’t dodge these records on the account of punk-points.

Chromatics – Night Drive
Chromatics – Running Up That Hill

This entry was posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 6:49 am by Mark and is filed under Covers, Downtempo, Electronic, Pop. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.