I need more music that fits in with this style (early-mid 80s offbeat / mutant / italo, catchy synths, nonsense lyrics etc)

Just making a little compilation for myself. I intend to put it onto cassette tape for my friend's little car as I think this is a style he'd like. I'm not too fussed about time / context, just creating an overall feel.

Flash & the Pan - Midnight Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdkxhVyd7bU

Gichy Dan - Cowboys & Gangsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ76k12Jg20

Plustwo - Melody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LwpylizD1I

Methusaleh - Zombie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBXh0_rLXQI

Yellow Magic Orchestra - La Femme Chinoise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTcAtMX0v4A

Disco Dancer Soundtrack - Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VGCfifgpDs

The Scarface soundtrack is full of stuff like this.

Vamos a la Playa counts too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9w1tM-46yM&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRiB8zoMKjg

I love this genre by the way (ZE Records, new wave gone disco, weird synthpop etc...) Hhere's another that has made several of my mixtapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw3URS9MAVE

Thanks Dan, this is exactly the vibe I'm looking for - somewhere between ZE and Italo.

I had never heard that Plus Two track, that's great! Something kind of Kate Bush-like about the vocal line in one part. I really don't know a ton of Italo.

Another alltime favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84llhoEbRI

I really want to organize a dj night so I can spin this stuff again.

how about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlSlXFD5b6g

Maybe this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLbhcw2VlKY

or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ij1bVHslw

Do you have this record? It's canada's best Italo group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jd9bj882pk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBSnV4kN2aM

More Canadians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAgC2NjgrAg

I had never heard Moev before thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjNrLurMpQ

Their biggest club hit was "Crucify Me" from 1989.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ValOTKZ2y64&feature=related

Radiorama - "Vampires"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhSJ1KLd3k

Shake the MInd!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd5VHCqr6Fw!

Lime - "Your Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5QbB3-p4pw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9dRlALElK4

Not sure if this fits, but it's worth watching for a laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeH2Um-yOrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCA8cFCL9_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCXTiIJI11s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxXRC4oDdFk

Possibly too goth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UgGUMEo-3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=110k5hsSTjo

And that's just Italo, if slightly offbeat.

Take three Yello albums and see me in the morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmdFelUWeuw

this always makes me think of someone trying to transpose cock rock onto italo or something but maybe that's just me

ah didn't see someone posted a Lime vid already cos this is loading hella slow - I prefer this one but ymmv

Why was tarzan such a popular subject back in the day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0c28sFBE_A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWz5CdPzhr0

<3

So much good stuff in this vein.

Virginia David - Am I Normal? (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1Uu3USGn8

Isn't that Sarah McLachlan singing on the Manufacture track?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vHSBD4s6fE

X-post Yes it is, she sang on a Skinny Puppy track too. Apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wguF9N0x9do&feature=fvst

Are bands like Was (Not Was) and Material too obvious?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J4mCkIy3bs

I've got to thank this thread for making check out later Flash and the Pan and for alerting me to that Phill and Friends song. C Cat Trance is cool too.

i am now obsessed with that plustwo track.

Another version of Midnight Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgEerseU9Y

The Plustwo is one of my all time favourite tunes. Midnight Man is a new discovery, but absolutely fantastic. I'd love to mix it into a straight-up house set next to some Todd Terje or something.

^ i feel like there are probably a lot of mixes from the 2006-7 disco revival pd that do exactly that. not that it's ever a bad idea to play this stuff or that it doesn't pair well with house or w/e, but you might be able to steal some good tracks from those mixes (dj harvey, james murphy's fabriclive mix, rub n tug, etc). also a ton of comps from the mid '00s mine or overlap w/ this territory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZBHnSRwk9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FSWdQIJUlk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEvn4oYjeQ0&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1DHm7p1sm4

(apologies if some of these are obvious or too straight ahead italo)

I love "Put Your Pants On" - such a slow burner. I think I included it in my disco-reggae mix from a few years back.

yea ilm dance crew was obsessed with this stuff for a while, peaking with the whole beardo/cosmic thing. never thought of "put your pants on" as disco-reggae before tho

btw, i'm really digging "slang teacher". looked into it and it turns out i recognize it from ilxor dan selzer's mix on rvng - which is yet another example of a great mix with a ton of this type of stuff in it

Super-obvious:

Double - Rangoon Moon
Zazu - Captain Starlight
Holger Czukay - Cool in the Pool
Sky - Desperate For Your Love

Cool In The Pool is amazing. Haven't heard the others you mentioned Tim.

yea ilm dance crew was obsessed with this stuff for a while, peaking with the whole beardo/cosmic thing. never thought of "put your pants on" as disco-reggae before tho

― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 11:11 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, that doesn't make sense... I definitely had it on a mix of some sort.

maybe these
Witness The Change (dub) - Pete Shelley
Big Man Restless - Kissing The Pink
Fire Island (Extended Mix) - Session
Help The Man (Dub) - Georgie Red
Telepatia! - Lavvi Ebbel
Kites - The Associates

Maybe too slow but in mutant disconotdisco camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF_SxvpS8-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCGhDg2WUFY

btw, i'm really digging "slang teacher". looked into it and it turns out i recognize it from ilxor dan selzer's mix

Yes! I was trying to remember if I knew this song back in the day, but I'm sure I first heard it on this mix.

Yeah it was Dan's mix that got me hip to 'Slang Teacher'

Good thing I occasionally search for my name or I'd never have spotted this thread.

Awesome to see the Vels posted above. The woman singing is Alice Cohen, who's been a NYC mainstay for years now. I think she even dated a certain ex-ILXor. She's still playing hip gigs around Brooklyn, and does really cool animation. http://alicecohen.bandcamp.com/

in other news...best song and video of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6FVlfOgTo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_VDs2ZzXxQ

one of the most expensive records I've ever bought (had to have it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfEIEUELyDs

This is my jam. More of a new wave disco thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j45KjCLdiMo

and thanks for the kind words re: the RVNG mix. There's more mixes on my soundcloud page, but none have been downloaded nearly as many times:

http://soundcloud.com/newyorkendless

the polish Klaus Schulze:

Marek Biliński - dom w dolinie mgieł, po drugiej stronie świata

Dan, thanks to the link to Alice Cohen's new stuff. She's not a name I would be actively searching at all, and I honestly don't listen to many 2012 versions of 80s synthpop these days, but I'm halfway through her Pink Keys album this morning, and it's really hitting the spot. Very nice.

Yeah, well it's not like she's doing retro/revival synthpop...she's doing her own thing and the songs have always been good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6w-YY-OoqU

Hey all - I made a little mix of tunes from this thread. It's stream only I'm afraid, cos Soundcloud wouldn't allow it:

http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/heroes-villains-mutant-italo-sounds/

Oh man that Bagarre track posted upthread is so good

yup

does this count?

my mom reminded me of the existence of this, she was living in italy and was a little kid who thought this was actual english. the artist made this song with the intention of making it sound like it's in english to prove that italians will listen to anything that sounds american pic.twitter.com/X4IMoZM4nN

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