Disco

Ships’ Simon Cullen returns to his Lasertom disco project with a new EP next week; hear ‘Super Saor’

An EP drops next week; hear a track now.

After his recent success with winning the Choice Music Prize as Ships with his partner Sorca McGrath, Simon Cullen has turned his attention back to his solo project Lasertom, of previously-described elongated gilded space-disco. A three-track EP called Super Saor is due out next week on March 28th and you can bow near the title… Read more »

Posted on March 22nd, 2018

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Premiere: Irish disco duo Deadbots drop first track from their debut album Love Unlimited

The album is set for release later this year.

Dublin-based Nina Knezevik and Paul Kelly or Deadbots have released the first single from their forthcoming debut album Love Unlimited. You may already be familiar with their tracks like ‘Heartbreaker’ from 2012 and last year’s release ‘UFRST’. ‘Love Unlimited’ represents a slightly more melodic and disco-driven sound for the duo, a robust introduction to the… Read more »

Posted on March 5th, 2018

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The new Orange Tree Edits 12″ is lighting up the dance charts

Dublin label turns up with heat with tracks from Jimmy Rouge and Mix & Fairbanks.

I’ve covered Orange Tree’s first two releases here earlier this year but the success of the just-released third 12″ in the series from the Dublin label is worth noting because a) it’s currently top of the Juno chart in all genres and b) it has two grade A dancefloor bangers that people are really responding… Read more »

Posted on July 25th, 2017

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Mix & Fairbanks release second collection of DJ edits

Check out the edits of Womack And Womack, Logg and Karriem.

The Newbridge, Kildare duo of Rob Smyth and Gary O’Reilly aka Mix & Fairbanks are following up their first collection of DJ edits, their whopper original debut and their extended Le Boom remix with another collection of Made & Played edits that they’ve been playing out of late in their DJ sets. Check out the… Read more »

Posted on May 22nd, 2017

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The new Amadou & Miriam song is an Afro disco banger

The Malian couple's released a video for the track today.

This Afro disco dancefloor track comes from a surprising source – the blind Malian couple known as Amadou & Mariam. The pair always had a capacity for soaring transformative melodies so it’s nice to hear them bring that with extra heat on their first track in five years ‘Bofou Safou’. The title takes its name… Read more »

Posted on May 2nd, 2017

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A new Dublin edits label Orange Tree is dropping its first release

Afro funk and house vibes for the dancefloor.

Underneath The Orange Tree present a new Dublin label focusing on edits drops its first release on February 17th. The Orange Tree Edits white label’s first release is from Jimmy Rouge and both tracks are Afrobeat edits. ‘Pembe’ is muscular bass house-tinged Afro funk while ‘Fo Ya’ is brushed up funk and afro disco. Underneath… Read more »

Posted on January 19th, 2017

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Premiere: Toofools deliver glittering disco-funk & soul on ‘Touch’

The new Dublin band recall Jungle on new single.

In a short time, TooFools, a band brought to us by Lorcan O’Dwyer, Steven McCann and their big gang of friends have made a splash on the Dublin music landscape. They introduced themselves with a live video by Christian Tierney of Insanity. Now, nearly a year later and with much live experience under their belts,… Read more »

Posted on November 3rd, 2016

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The true story of the club classic ‘“Stand On The Word”’

Did you know Larry Levan had nothing to do with the well-known version?

‘“Stand On The Word”’ is a song that is steeped in club culture history. The original recording was made in 1982 by Phyliss McKoy Joubert and the children of the Celstial Choir at the First Baptist Church in Crown Heights, New York. A gospel album called Somebody Prayed For This was recorded and ‘Stand On… Read more »

Posted on September 8th, 2016

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Album of the week: Roosevelt – Roosevelt

An escapist electronic disco tonic.

Summer weather can’t be relied on, one day it can be scorching, one day torrential. I’m a big believer in surrounding yourself with things to encourage your mood and music to soundtrack the season. Just because the weather isn’t playing ball doesn’t mean your tunes can’t lift you. Which is where Marius Lauber’s escapist debut… Read more »

Posted on August 19th, 2016

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Download Mix & Fairbanks’ edit of Indeep’s ‘Last Nite A DJ Saved My Life’

Mix & Fairbanks have been knocking it out of the park in Ireland lately, from their DJ sets all over (they played our Lumo night last month and are in the Sugar Club tonight) to their DJ sets (check their Linndrum special). They’re still young in the game but they have the smarts and skills… Read more »

Posted on August 12th, 2016

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Plutonic Dust – ‘Kill For Gold’

The nu-disco synth electronic band Plutonic Dust (Veronica Moran, Patrick McAdam, Kevin McKnight, Ciaran O’Shea and John Tyrrell) and have been hovering around the Irish music scene for the last few years. Without a huge buildup, they released their debut album a while back. Grand Delusions shares a similar sonic space by the likes of… Read more »

Posted on July 14th, 2016

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Todd Terje & The Olsens announce disco covers EP

Ahead of some live dates this summer, Todd Terje and his dance troupe/band The Olsens have announced a double vinyl EP of remakes/covers of tracks by Yellow Magic Orchestra, Boney M, Vangelis and remixes of the tracks. The Big Cover-Up is released on June 17th on Terje’s own Olsen records. The tracklist is velow and… Read more »

Posted on April 28th, 2016

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