Due to time constraints, this week’s Monday Magick is going to be a bit of a drive-by installment. Our featured track is called “Disco Wizard” and it comes from an artist I know little to nothing about, Francisco, a purveyor of retro-sounding but totally modern Italo-Disco. Why am I posting[…]
It feels like Róisín Murphy just put out a record. But she’s back with a new album, ‘Take Her Up to Monto’, and a kaleidoscopic new video for its first single “Ten Miles High”. ‘Take Her Up to Monto’ is out July 8th on Play It Again Sam. Róisín Murphy
Metronomy show you how to party like a responsible adult in the video for their new single “Old Skool”, which sounds like Giorgio Moroder made a record for the Paradise Garage and released it on Enjoy Records. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…”Old Skool” is from the British synthpop group’s forthcoming fifth[…]
Robots are brought to life, with sexy results, in the new clip for Disco-Pop groover “My Toy” from French Electro act Breakbot. “My Toy” is from Breakbot’s sophomore LP ‘Still Waters’, which is out now on Ed Banger Records. Breakbot
Drawing inspiration from stylish ’80s drug/crime dramas, schlocky Golan-Globus-style cinema, video games, and the like, Texas-based Electro outfit Neon Indian rush the discotheque in their mini-movie “Slumlord Rising”. Somehow I missed out on this video as well as ‘Vega Intl. Night School’, the album “Slumlord” was taken from, when they[…]
This week Monday Magick wants you to take it easy. Just sway and step to the sounds of “Haunted House” from ‘Before the Rain’ a 1978 LP from Danish harmonica player Lee Oskar. Oskar may be best known as a founding member of Funk outfit War and has also earned[…]
I’m feeling a little off this week and really just needed to spend some time after work relaxing and vibing out. So when it came time to pick this week’s Monday Magick entry I went looking for something that sounded smooth over something with in-your-face occult qualities. Ultimately I chose[…]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra take the bass for a walk and freak your brain right the fuck out with their new single and video “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone”. The Disco-inspired booty-shaker is from Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s newest album ‘Multi-Love’, which is out now on Jagjaguwar Records. The video for the[…]
Funky, fashion-forward, femme fatale Ebony Bones revisits the old school, orchestral Disco sound of her breakout hit “We Know All About You” on her newest single “Oh Promised Land”. “Oh Promised Land” is from Ebony Bones’ forthcoming EP ‘Milk and Honey, Part 1’, due out October 10th on the 1984[…]
“Dim the Lights” from Porland, Oregon’s Wild Ones is the type of song I used to listen to on my headphones in the dark back when I used to stay up all night writing and coding. The video for the Indie-Disco-Synth Pop jam, which was directed by Montana Wildhack, is[…]
Monday Magick goes back to the vinyl archives this week to unearth a rare jam that mixes The Devil with funky Disco music. It’s a lengthy dancefloor stomper from Chicago-bred percussionist, singer, and producer Peter Brown’s 1977 TK Records debut ‘A Fantasy Love Affair’ titled “Do You Wanna Get Funky[…]
It’s been a while since Dutch Soul/Pop crooner Benny Sings has appeared in these pages, but he’s back and lending guest vocals to “Don’t Sing”, an anthemic, piano-driven Electro-Disco jam by French musician DatA. The humorous, but decidedly macabre, video clip features a wide array of disturbingly violent and sexual[…]
