Video - Somebody

There are a lot of weird italo disco playback clips from old European TV shows on YouTube, but this one, from Dutch TV 1984, is almost surrealistic. The track itself is probably most known for having appeared on Italo Boot Mix Vol. 2.



Rock the italo grandmas!

Leo Garcia - Electricistas

Leo Garcia hails from Argentine and is apparently most known for his track "Morrissey" which was played by Morrissey himself as pause music during his concerts. The lead track to Leo's new EP is more disco, produced by Mario Pak, and has a chorus that I can't stop listening to. One of my favourite tracks from the latest few months.

Lip-synching to the sa-sa-sampler

One thing that surprised me when I started to watch old 80s disco videos on YouTube was that the singers during the playback performances on TV shows often lip-synched to sampled voices or their own voice "megamixed". Like in this TV appearance of Fun Fun "Happy Station" (watch the part at 2:20)



It looks ridiculous but somehow it goes pretty well along with the cheap italo disco aesthetic. So I was more surprised when I saw the same thing happening in this 1984 playback perfomance of Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" (the original version produced by Bobby O). I mean Neil Tennant is a British intellectual. (Watch the part at 3:36 onwards.) But then it seems to have been their first TV performance.