Wheeee!
The end of another week is nigh...
...and we need to get this party started! How about a nostalgic trip back down memory lane to the summer of 1992, and the absolute #1 club hit of that season, courtesy of "Our Man in Chelmsford"?
Thank Disco Hardbag(?) It's Friday!
Thirty-two years ago?!!!!
Sob.
Well after the Thanksgiving holiday thank heavens I'm off today. There was copious amounts of wine pouring free yesterday at the casa, hence why I will be going back to bed.
ReplyDeleteBefore or after blasting your eardrums with Felix?! Jx
DeleteAfter. I used to dance to this back in the day!!!!! I wasn't passing up that listen.
DeleteGood to know you're still shaking a tail-feather after copious quantities of booze! Jx
DeleteHardbag? I was expecting Ena Sharples, but Felix will do.
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend! x
I meant Elsie Tanner, but Ena will do, too.
DeleteIf either of them belted you with their bag, it would be hard!
DeleteI have to admit, until I looked it up I had never even heard of "hardbag" [DJs and music geeks really do have too much time on their hands, don't they? Labelling this that and the other genre so that it all becomes totally incomprehensible].
Who cares about labels, let's dance!!
Jx
I immediately thought of Human League more than 10 years earlier.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning there was Wendy Carlos, and she begat Kraftwerk and Brian Eno. From their seed arose Jean-Michelle Jarre, Holger Czukay, Rick Wakeman and Mike Oldfield, who in turn begat Giorgio Moroder. His seed scattered, and myriad tribes arose. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Martin Ware/Human League, Cerrone, John Foxx/Ultravox, Gary Numan, Vince Clarke, Andy McCluskey, Trevor Horn, Yello, the "New Romantics"; prophets of a new age, one and all. Thus electronic dance music was born; everything from Hi-NRG to House to Techno to Europop and Rave owes a debt. To which we say "amen". Jx
DeleteAs fab now as it was then ! It would be interesting to to how many times it has been sampled.
ReplyDeleteIt's been used for advertising (inevitably), and remixed dozens of times! You can't keep a good choon down. Jx
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