Joy Division - Shadow Play live on Granada Reports 1978

They left just a small bit of music and an echo that still rings

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Troutman Vs Wonder ‘Talk Off’

As you may have already guessed Cosmic Disco are huge fans of both Roger Troutman (Check out those outfits!) and Stevie Wonder and whilst scouring the net we came across some fantastic examples of both artists rocking the Talk Box.
Not to be confused with the Vocoder a talk box is a musical sound effects device [...]

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Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles - Living for the city video

Connect your headphones to your laptop, computer or media centre of choice and turn this up loud! Damn that bumps.

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Al Kent and Rahaan pictures from Urbis in Manchester

There’s some pictures from the Northern Disco night available over in the pictures section. Get yourself over there now!
Here’s a small video clip from the night. Sorry about the distortion, I couldn’t seem to get in a good spec where I could record.

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Karen Young - Hot Shot live on the Soap Factory Disco

The Soap Factory Disco in New Jersey was the location of a Saturday night television show of the same name in the mid and late 1970s.
Here’s Karen Young performing Hot Shot live.
How good. Makes you want to be there.

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Jack to the sound of the underground


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Vintage Sankeys Soap

I love the new Sankeys more than ever, how ever I did have some great times playing there before the refurbishment.
The “resident” nights were always musically ace, I played right across the board on some occassions and it worked, other nights it just wasn’t happening.
Here’s some video from the end of the night filmed at [...]

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Michael Jackson’s Thriller made with Lego

Straight up.
It’s all about the 2 minute mark.

You can watch the full version on Youtube if really want to.

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Liaisons Dangereuses - Los ninos del parque

Liaisons Dangereuses was founded by Beate Bartel and Chris Haas together with vocalist Krishna Goineau in 1981. As a part of the Neue Deutsche Welle scene in Germany they pioneered Electronic body music. After recording four ten minutes cassettes they released their sole album in 1981. The self-titled album was mixed at Conny Plank’s studio [...]

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Cabaret Voltaire live at the Hacienda 1986

Sheffield’s finest perfoming Kino from their Drinking Gasoline EP at the Hacienda in Manchester.

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