Great cover of the ending theme from John Carpenter’s “Assault on Precinct 13” by the German “disco” band The Splash Band. Released in 1984, this stuff is more 80’s electro than disco. The Music of John Carpenter features some pretty impressive covers of themes from Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, The Fog, and the extremely impressive covers of Halloween 2 (the other standout track from this release), and Halloween. If you can find this, pick it up. It’s hard to come by.
Synthy French disco from 1978. A great vocoder-heavy cover of the classic Canned Heat track of the same name.
Philadelphia’s Robert Hazard was probably best known as the guy who originally wrote “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” which was later made popular by
Degada Saf was an Italian new wave duo who were active in the 80s. “La Rhumba De Shanghai” is from their 1984 release No Inzro, which
Obscure Italo-disco style track from 1983 courtesy of Canada’s Radar. Unfortunately, I don’t have any additional info about them. If you know anything about them,
Mississippi-born singer Fern Kinney was best known for her disco music in the ’70s, including this song and the even better-known “Together We Are Beautiful,”
Teai Benet (I’m not quite sure how to pronounce her first name) was a scenester during Houston’s early 80s punk/new wave days. This song is
