October 14, 2002

Army of disco dancers

Alcazar's Casino is currently in my CD player, by way of Sweden (music), Germany (pressing), and the UK (export). "Crying At the Discoteque" is the single that swept the European dance scene (or so I'm told) and the entire album takes me back to a decade for which I was barely even alive. Conoisseurs of the Jackson family's musical oeuvre will note that Alcazar's "Paris In the Rain" uses the same Quincy Jones sample as the title track on Janet's All For You.

Next up: Steve just loaned me his copy of The Clash's eponymously named album, plus I should probably get around to my as-of-yet unopened copies of ATB's Movin' Melodies and Adam Freeland's Tectonics, but The New Yorker's 14-21 October 2002 issue has a review of Beck's Sea Change and I might end up listening to some more of that after reading about it.

Posted by ned at October 14, 2002 04:29 PM