It had to be something special to drag me back. Past couple of months I lost heart. I heard nothing to match Castro Boy or Shari Vari. I got worried.
I returned to my CDs and tapes. In the back of my mind was the half-remembered fact I read somewhere that states that your music tastes are set by 24. I turned 25 a few weeks back.
But it was through CDs that brought me back here, got me back trawling blogs, got me loving music again.
There it was buried on disc three of an EMI compilation of "New Romantics". The inverted commas are there for a reason. Devo are many things but New Romantics is not one of them.
For the past couple of days I've wondered how I've gone so long without hearing this.
Moskow Diskow is a stupendous piece of dead-pan futuristic electronic disco music... from Belgium. It's the four-four handclap/fingersnap sound. It's the vocoder. It's the French (or Flemish, whatevs). It's the synths. It's the train motifs (the sister of Kraftwerk's bicycles?). It's the everything.
The mp3 is a remastered version from 2004, but I don't think it's been altered too much.
