Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Pop creole

Italo grooves + early '80s American pop R&B singers = my wheelhouse. Producer Pete Bellotte is technically British, but as half of Munich Machine (the other being Giorgio Moroder), he gets honorary citizenship.

I've had enough failed evangelical situations to know that if you don't like this stuff right off the bat, I probably can't convince you. I can only appeal to an inside-out exoticism. Which is to say, you know all about machines making pop and you know all about lite R&B of this era, but this mixture has the strange pull of a strange dream that you know isn't real, but easily could be. Or like realizing that you speak a creole that you never learned.

Sue Ann - My Baby My

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