Speaking in Code … the techno movie that’s not about techno.Director Amy Grill put together a chronological behind-the-scenes vidshow that’s worth peeping again:

In the meantime

sQuare DJs Baltimoroder and Daviday are playing a roller rink February 8th with production guru PTVN and disco collector/godhead Joseph Colbourne:

And of course, the Techno party remains at the Middlesex Lounge each week. Our upcoming guests include Worcester rave gods, Mancunian madmen, Germanic disco-funk experts and Spanish technoids.

All along, disco keeps pushing its influence onto the techno masses, as well it should. The Disco Sucks riot illustrated America’s revolt against dance music. It was gay, it was black, it was feminine, it was &c., &c.

But dance tunes remain. There’s nothing quite like submitting to a 4-4 beat and it its many incarnations; indigenous, synthetic or otherwise.

Consider this track from Pantha Du Prince, techno producers from Germany who happen to subscribe to a particular Marxist philosophy while they make glitteringly brilliant tracks. The sound is conflicted in American ears: four-four, symphonic and trancey. Yet despite their dedication to simple life (a picture of their friend’s production space is here), the music is lush and resplendant:

Pantha Du Prince - “Saturn Strobe”

And ultimately, that is what disco is all about: jubilance in the face of the inevitable.

Like this:

Chic - “Everybody Dance (12″ Mix)”

or this:

Isolee - “Beau Mot Plage (Freeform Reform)”

or this:

Kanye West - “Addition (Terry Hunter and K-Dope Remix)”

or this:

Seabstian Tellier - “La Ritournelle”

Robag Wruhme - “Wuzzelbud ‘KK’”

Robag is in the movie.

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