a glam electro stomp-y kind of thing :
'look at you, are you awake yetyou need your beauty sleep,your lines on your face tell a storyso now it's time for laser beamslook at you flying high above the groundyou're not coming down...'
any guesses ? it's new i think.
― piscesboy, Monday, 1 September 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Friday, 26 December 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)
hi - this is clearly a re-edit of an 80s euro electro-pop track released under the radar to avoid copyright but can anyone ID the track for me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyyGNcCxzVA
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 8 December 2019 13:33 (five years ago)
bump
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:26 (five years ago)
Kano "China Star"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Y3V_KhoAw
― dubmill, Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:51 (five years ago)
Thanks, dubmill! Much appreciated.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:30 (five years ago)
I was googling what I could decipher of the lyrics to try to get it but was googling "my little child is now" for "china star".
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:35 (five years ago)
I wasn't familiar with the track at all but was able to find it by searching for a couple of snatches of lyrics that I could decipher ("lights of the city" and "shine around you"). That brought up a Discogs page where someone had transcribed the entire lyric.
― dubmill, Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:40 (five years ago)
excellent, your ears are better than mine.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 8 December 2019 23:41 (five years ago)
anyway, that turns out to be a better edit than I thought. I could do without the clappy intro for home listening but it is useful if you are playing it out (which I have not done yet).
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Monday, 9 December 2019 00:00 (five years ago)
As I said I wasn't familiar with the original but I liked the chords and watery synth lines. I preferred the disco-ish beat of the edit. I'm not sure how widespread that trick of making the vocals muffled was back then, but that effect, combined with the type of chords used, and even the lyrical phrases I mentioned, reminded me of a fairly recent Russian band called Tesla Boy. I remember buying their first album about 10 years ago and I could swear one of the tracks contains the vocal line "lights of the city" and with the voice processed in a very similar manner. But perhaps these things are fairly generic.
― dubmill, Monday, 9 December 2019 00:13 (five years ago)
I've no idea either but Tesla Boy is a good band or project name.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Monday, 9 December 2019 00:24 (five years ago)
I thought their first album was very good -- good enough for me to buy it, but I didn't like what they did after that. I'm going to dig out that first album and see if I'm right that they may have got the vocal sound and the line "lights of the city" from that Kano track.
― dubmill, Monday, 9 December 2019 00:34 (five years ago)