I’ve picked up a lot of great suff over the last month or so.  Here’s one I got this past Friday.  It’s the LP Body Shine by Munich Machine.  Released in 1979 on Casablanca.

Munich Machine was a disco group featuring Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte that released 3 full length albums from 1977-1979.

Aside from Munich Machine, Pete Bellotte worked closely with Moroder as co-writer and co-producer on some of the disco era’s most successful tracks including all of the huge Donna Summer hits.  He was also in a group called Trax with another famous producer of the era, Keith Forsey.

Pete Bellotte was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

Download Munich Machine – Space Warrior

Sorry for the long wait – I took some time off to concentrate on job hunting.  To make up for lost time, I’ll be posting a bunch of updates this week!

The French had definitely cornered the market on space themed disco in the late 1970s.  From Didier Marouani & Space, Droids, Rockets, Saveur Mallia/Arpadys, and many many more, you couldn’t swing a dead cat in 1979 France without hitting a French musician in a silver Buck Rogers outfit.

Here’s a neat little record I found today while digging through crate after crate of generic post 2000 hip hop singles in glossy red jackets.  I don’t really know anything about the group MILKWAYS other than presumably there are three members, they have glowing eyes, and they are always naked.  Oh, and they released this single, and one full length album both in 1978.  Both with the same cover.  Have they no shame? After that they must have disappeared in a cloud of hubris and starstuff.

I always wonder how exactly a record like this made the journey from France in 1978 to the basement of a New England comic book store over the span of 31 years.  I guess that’s a mystery that only Milkways can answer, and they’re not talking.

Download Milkways - Astroport

This week we have a record I found while digging through some crates in the basement of a nearby record store/comic book shop.  When I saw the cover I just knew I had to buy it.  It has all the elements:  cheezy “future retro” typeface, starfield background, over the top title, blue vinyl, and the ever important “special disco mix”.

Although it’s not nearly as amazing as i’d hoped, it is a fun song to play in a set of lasergun space disco.  I can’t really picture anyone taking part in a “conquest” of anything while listening to this other than maybe a light-up dancefloor.

Released in 1977 this is part Star Trek, part Battlestar Galactica, part Moroder and all amazingly ridiculous!  The masterminds behind this record are Canadian producers/musicians Dominic Sciscente and Michel Daigle from Black Light Orchestra, who, when not hustling their way through space, had a hit song with Touch Me, Take Me.

Space Project – Conquest Of The Stars (Long Disco Mix)