Space Project – Conquest Of The Stars
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.
score! thanks for posting.
Laughing Out Loud!
I heard this LP first time back in 1979. I was 15 when my father played it. Since then I’ve wanted it so much. He played it on his 33 1/3, 45 & 78 r.p.m. record player. I think he had it ’til 2002-3 when it just gave up.
The music is just hillarious. Not amazing at all as you said but for me this is history, an early music memory. I remember the room, I even remember where I sat when I heard it the first time.
I guess I have to make a visit to his house and say something like “Daddy, pleeease… Can I have this record…?”