Another highly under-rated band, Disco Inferno struggled on for five years or so in the early nineties on a series of labels. They eventually settled at Rough Trade to unleash a string of mind-busting EPs and a couple of albums.
The band fused regular instruments with triggered samples and a mix of rhythm and melody. 'It's A Kid's World' is a gloriously melodic cacophony that fuses hi-life-ish guitars with the drum break from Iggy Pop's 'Lust For Life' before throwing in samples of a tuba, cartoon soundtrack, a stop-start chorus, what sounds like a recorder, another glorious melody on the outro.
You're literally bombarded with ideas and energy but it's a highly addictive mix. I'd reference some other bands but I really think there's no-one else doing what they did.
Hopefully the release of a newly remastered collection of their five EPs on Cheree and Rough Trade might give them a little overdue recognition. Here's hoping.
Download Disco Inferno 'It's A Kid's World' (alternative, indie, mp3) (Mediafire)
Another band that we seem to share a deep love and fanaticism for!! :-) Like Moonshake, Disco Inferno just entranced me with their incredible sample-driven WASH of SOUND. DI Go Pop was the first thing I ever got from them, and it was like NOTHING ELSE ON EARTH. It was, in some ways, a companion piece to Eva Luna, both records are so addictive and compulsive, but completely different entities. Both bands were also unique and completely amazing, and both disappeared all too quickly due to the indifference of the record buying public.
ReplyDeleteA Rock To Cling To remains one of my fave Disco Inferno singles ever - a forlorn lament built around a seesawing sampled guitar coda and unsettling screeches that appear sporadically here and there, and its flip From The Devil To The Deep Blue Sky is 9 minutes of sheer OUT-THERE-ness that features only the bass as the main melody instrument, the rest being jarring samples flying around like shrapnel falling in slow motion.
Technicolour was released long after the band split up (it was supposed to be originally issued after It's a Kid's World but for some reason ended up being shelved), but it's no less an incredible recording than what came before. It actually sounds in part like New Order or Wire let loose in a sample-strewn fantasy playground, where all manner of sonic craziness is going on - overloading one's senses in a similar but nevertheless different way to the sheer all-out aural assault that DI Go Pop presented us with.