With the new Star Wars The Force Awakens film a few weeks away, I thought about completing a mix that had been at the back of my mind for a while now. INTERGALACTIC DISCO SUPERNOVA is a tribute to that odd period between 77 and 81 when disco went interstellar. It also marks the retreat of disco from the US and the UK, but also the grounding of the HI-NRG sound in places like Italy where Italo Disco was born.
The scene is born out of several different sources: the cosmic P-funk pioneered by George Clinton and his expanded family of musicians, European electronic experimenters: predominately Kraftwerk, but then dozens of imitators and of course the success of a little movie called ' Star Wars' whose shiny robots and neon laser blasts reflected the disco aesthetic.
Here's some of the most famous 'space disco' records mixed together. I've also included 'I Feel Space' by Lindstrom. The best 'space disco' record from outside the key era.
