Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. There’s a certain type of music that I’ve taken to referring to as “story music”—stuff that lends itself to […]
Fossil Records: Theme from Radius: An Italo Spacedance Compilation
If My Mine’s Stone, discussed in this column two weeks back, is the type of ‘80s dance music which befits a party in a teen movie, the tracks found on Theme From Radius: An Italo Spacedance Compilation are more in tune with the cocaine-and-strippers aesthetic of the era, the type of music you might expect […]
Video of the Week: “Days of Glory” by SODA lite
“Days of Glory” by Melbourne-based DJ/Producer SODA lite is a dazzling ray of sunshine emanating from one of Soundcloud’s more shadowy recesses. Released on the semi-parodic, online label Pedicure Records (the object of their parody, Manicure Records, releases whacked-out hyperpop in a similar vein to it-kids PC Music), the song sounds how a Toni Braxton […]
Video of the Week: Weeknight’s “Dark Light”
Weeknight function like a New York synth scene take on the Raveonettes, but where that other duo has made a career out of black leather and black & white noir tones, the two piece’s “Dark Light” video shows they’re not afraid of a little color, particularly of the Dia de los Muertos variety. Filled with […]