Music

Blame it on the numa numa, but after decades of nutritious ascetic denial, techno/electron-ica/Venutian rave/whatever-it’s-calling-itself-this- week finally seems to have deigned to embrace its inner Boney M. Unless it already did, back when Derrick May was scouring backstreet Ferndale bins for obscure Alexander Robotnik Italodisco fuzzdance imports; sometimes it’s hard to keep track. By summer, at this rate, Ish and Bobby O and Yello should be acknowledged as more important than Moby for sure.

DROP THE LIME

This Means Forever

(Tigerbeat6 techno-glitch breakbeat album)

Stream “Shaken” (MP3)

Stream “Rocker Party” (MP3)

Stream “Rad Girl Killy” (MP3)

FOXY/OXO/COMPANY B

Ishology

(Re disco/funk/new wave/Latin freestyle/Latin pop reissue-disc-plus-new-stuff-disc album)

Stream Foxy’s “Get Off” (Real)

Stream Oxo’s “Whirly Girl” (Real)

Stream Company B’s “Fascinated” (Real)

KAOS

Hello Stranger

(!K7 import post-Italodisco electronica album)

Stream “Lessons In Love” (Real)

Stream “Feel Like I Feel (Sing Along)” (Real)

Stream “Now And Forver” (Real)

Stream “Boogie Boy” (Real)

LEMON JELLY

‘64-’95

(XL historically minded electronica album)

Stream Album (Quicktime)

MARTIKA

Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika

(Columbia/Legacy ’90s dance-pop reissue)

Stream “Cross My Heart” (Real)

Stream “Toy Soldiers” (Real)

BOBBY O

Outside the Inside

(Radikal flimsy Hi-NRG new wave disco singer-songwriter album)

O-ZONE

Dragostea Din Tei

(sloppily burned no-label Romanian shout-along numa numa deesco-cheese CD-R album available in quality Central European neighborhood grocery stores)

View Numa Numa Dance Video

UNITED STATE OF ELECTRONICA

U.S.E.

(Sonic Boom fake-French house album)

Download “Climb the Walls (Umbrella of Love)” (MP3)

Download “There’s Always Music ” (MP3)

YELLO

The Eye

Stream “Planet Dada” (Real)

Stream “Hipster’s Delay” (Real)

Stream “Don Turbulento” (Real)

CAMPING

(Bpitch Control Joe C-sampling microhouse/schaffel/glitchpop compilation)

Preview Album

CROSSTOWN REBELS PRESENT REBELFUTURISM MIXES BY DAMIAN LAZARUS SESSION TWO

(Crosstown Rebels post-acid-house/post-Italodisco electro-dance compilation)

Download Simon Says’ “Deliverance” (MP3)

Download Superpitcher’s “Happiness (Michael Mayer Remix)” (MP3)

Download DJ Koze’s “Brutalgar Square” (MP3)

JOEY & NORMAN JAY MBE PRESENT GOOD TIMES 4

(Resist ’60s-’00s uplifting-and-jazzy-dance-music-of-many-stripes DJ mix compilation)