Disco Inferno: please help me out

Oh, Cozen, and if you've got a spare copy of that laying around, ya know, we can probably arrange something...

I cannot understand why this band hasn't been canonized. Is it just a case of wrong place/wrong time? Are people really that cloth-eared? Their records gush genius, almost flauntingly.

Well also keep in mind they were barely PUBLICIZED. The only reason I heard about them at all was strictly the UK press, specifically Melody Maker thanks to Simon Price, Simon Reynolds and David Stubbs (and Neil Kulkarni now that I think about it -- gave "Second Language" single of the week). In Debt fell out of print in the UK after Che collapsed and only half emerged in the States on the Coctails' label of all things, DI Go Pop did get a near simultaneous release sorta on Bar-None in 1994 here and that's how I ended up interviewing Crause (and WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I FIND THE TAPE DAMMIT but that's another story), but that was about it, they never toured and didn't make much of a splash. You really had to know who they were by digging, and they just missed out of a potential net buzz by a few years when the technology to share music got suitably entrenched.

Are you SURE that's not the wrong way around?

Vinita at Rocket Girl told me she was able to secure the rights to the Che stuff, including "Summer's Last Sound/Love Stepping Out," but that Rough Trade still has all the rights to the other EPs. Hrm.

interesting, because i like them both the best out of all his stuff. but then it is pretty much as indiepop as you're going to get.

It is glorious. :-)

can anyone do a CD80 list?

Er um uh. That would require me looking up exact times and I'm lazy right now. But let's assume this:

Emigre
Waking Up
Fallen Down the Wire
Summer's Last Sound
Love Stepping Out
From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sea (or whichever one on that single is the one starting with that sudden abrupt beginning)
The Last Dance
DI Go Pop
In Sharky Water
New Clothes for the New World
Starbound: All Burnt Out and Nowhere to Go
Even the Sea Sides Against Us
Second Language
At the End of the Line
It's a Kid's World
Lost in Fog

...for now.

Oh right, forgot to respond to this. Yes, drop me a line.

1. From The Devil To The Deep Blue Sea
2. The Last Dance
3. D.I. Go Pop
4. Love Stepping Out
5. It’s A Kid’s World
6. The Atheist’s Burden
7. At The End Of The Line
8. Summer’s Last Sound
9. A Little Something
10. Lost In Fog
11. A Night On The Tiles
12. The Long Dance
13. A Rock To Cling To
14. Second Language
15. Scattered Showers

It has a lovely flow to it. Or something. I even made my own cover with a picture I'd taken of some red&blue fireworks. Rar!

When I saw them live just before they split up they were doing a song called "Karate" - I wonder if this ever surfaced under another name? I can't remember anything about it other than it being fantastic - nothing they were playing that night sounded remotely like anything on either DI Go Pop or Technicolor. (It sounded better actually.)

Tom you shouldn't be allowed to say things like that.

I mean, could you send an extra one to cozen that he could pass on, to me, ned?

thanks a lot!!

Yeah that's a neat way to acknowledge the past while doing something different. Same sleeve designer as well.

more of a collector's item

tho emigre is in my top 10 disco songs

yeah looking forward to this even though I have it on cd and everything else.

yes but you don't have "in the cold" because it's an unreleased track! unless it's on youtube or something. I haven't checked.

In Debt is their best album.

https://www.mixcloud.com/neilkulkarni5/a-new-nineties-1994-uk-edition-volume-1/

^ A nice mix. Slight shame all the jungle tracks are from the same compilation I believe, rather than a bit more varied. https://www.discogs.com/Various-Drum-Bass-Selection-2/release/97952

I'll stop my DJ snarking now ;)

I did enjoy that mix ... I have to confess it inspired me to make my own compilation from the same era (Insides, Disco Inferno, Spoonfed Hybrid, Acacia etc).

Snarking is okay.

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else already. I just came across pre-orders on Amazon for vinyl reissues of DI Goes Pop (out on Jan 26) and Technicolor (out on Feb 23). Looking on the One Little Indian, they seem to have slightly different release dates but they are confirmed as coming soon. Amazing news!

dope

Excellent news!

Ordered DI Goes Pop it from One Little Indian as soon as I saw the post, and it has just arrived.

Wow! It still says the vinyl will be dispatched in February on the site. I wish I could get a copy here in America that quickly.

Have you played it yet? Interested to know how it sounds. Hope they've done a good job with these.

I saw this post Ned shared on FB about OLI fucking over A.R. Kane, and that the vinyl re-issue of '69' is ripped from a CD. Does anyone know about D.I's relationship with OLI, or the provenance of the vinyl re-ish?

https://www.facebook.com/arkaneuk/posts/1575310215879208

@olirecords claim to have purchased our entire catalog from @RoughTradeRecs for a few pennies, in perpetuity, w'out our consent knowledge - they refuse to let the rights revert to the band - not so much #MeToo more #MyArtToo #ArtisticSlavery U ever had a powerful label rip u off?

— A.R.Kane (@InfoKane) January 2, 2018

Ugh about A.R.Kane and OLI.

I've not had the time to listen to the LP yet, on the weekend perhaps.

OLI seemingly bought up the rights to a job lot of rough trade stuff some years back