#quality records

[generationclash]

Retronaut Selects: Riot - Born In America (1984)

2013  was the year that Riot took over my life.

It all started one day when my day played “Narita” on our home stereo, and I needed to know who this band was.

I got into all the albums one after another, and something happened after I heard “Born In America”, and I knew it was something special.

It’s an album that I love hearing in full, because it has a great flow to it, and it feels like the album is telling a story and each song is another piece of the puzzle.

Essential Tracks: You Burn In Me, Running From The Law, Devil Woman

Listen Here: Born In America

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October, 1992

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[nightschoolpdx]

Soccio Post-Disco

Everything about this cut oozes the stuff that got me interested in this era to begin with. Here we have a track that allows for a spacious armchair listen as well as an undeniable dancefloor groove. With a very minimal production aesthetic weaving a stair-step bassline, repetitive guitar chucking, occasional LFO-laden synths and a straightforward 4-on-the-floor beat "Nobody Else" showcases a sensibility that many beat producers would begin to harness in the wake of disco's demise. 

Karen Silver - Nobody Else

I should also note there are many parallels between this jam and Chic's "Good Times" (1979). I recommend listening to both tracks in sequence, observing the shift in production techniques utilized between '79 and '81 (i.e. during and after disco). The absence of strings in 'Nobody Else' certainly stands out as do the vocal overdub experiments and periodic synth swells. 

Also noteworthy is the production credit to Gino Soccio! For more info on this particular French-Canadian disco auteur, please read Wax Poetics' excellent overview of the man here.

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