The
Disco Tech of...Alexander Robotnick
Y
label : Yellow Productions YPCD170
|
My selection wishes to highlight the continuity of feelings and intentions that links up artists from the 80s with artists from today’s electronic music scene rather than demonstrating how this latter originated twenty years ago (which is only partly true).
To make this sense of continuity smoother and more fit for dancing, I didn’t hesitate to intervene on the rhythms of some tracks - adjusting their speed (but not their pitch) and adding some drum loops in the background - and sometimes I also modified their structure.
Yet they are not “remixed” as neither the music nor the feel of such tracks (or samples) have been altered.
As a matter of fact, I prefer original versions than remixed ones , as in the latter the composer’s and performer’s intentions and feelings are almost invariably lost.
Only in the case of “Untitled” by Dopplereffect, the addition of drums – totally absent in the original – changes the spirit of the track into a danceable one: the temptation of linking up the triumphalist and to me somewhat folk theme of “Penguin Invasion” with the rather disquieting and obscure one of “Untitled” was too strong to be resisted.
It is no chance that “Les grands voyages de l’amour” , the most romantic track of mine, closes the compilation. A streak of Romanticism is always present both in the music I make and the music I play as a DJ and can be found in most tracks of this compilation , also in Miss Kittin’s tender crudity and in New York City Survivors’ apocalyptic vocals.
The compilation obviously pays a tribute to the so-called Italo-Disco, romantic music par excellence, including its negative aspects. I intentionally chose to combine such classics as Lectric Workers and Charlie with the Bangkok Impact , that somehow recall that music.
In my DJ-set as well as in this compilation , which is a short extract of it, I use a few samples (which are: “I love You” by Yello and J.Foxx “Underpass” theme) as leit-motifs for their originality and my special fondness for them.
|
.
