Milky Disco 2: Let's Go Freak Out!

Two years ago, Lo Recordings released a compilation of what was then being called "Nu Disco" or "Cosmic Disco" music. Excited by the wide spectrum of styles in this new hybrid of electronic music, the label collected many of the leading artists including Lindstrom, Studio, Padded Cell, Black Devil, and Emperor Machine in a single quintessential cosmic compendium.

Now it's time for another collection of beats, textures, and melodies that mixes Detroit techno, German experimentalism, '80s West Coast vibes, Italo disco, soul, industrial, ambient, and avant garde - what could loosely be called exploratory space dance music. Of course, there have been other times when music has cross-pollinated - when punk met dub, free jazz collided with rock, freaks got hairy, synthesizers exploded, disco dancers took acid... when the lion laid down with the lamb and UFOs landed in the garden.

Milky Disco 2 reflects the diversity and energy of what's been going on over the last couple of years. This compilation is packed with exclusive tracks as well as a few new underground classics like the rolling Throbbing Gristle-meets-Snatch slo-mo groove of Pollyester's "You Are Amen," the deep-bush kalimba vibes of "Pissed and Passed Out" by Ghost Note, the Arthur Russell-ish narco-disco of Nite Jewel's "What Did He Say," Canyon's deep-space blues "Big City Lights," and Gatto Fritto's kraut-meets-disco epic "Hungry Ghosts."

There are also brand new tracks by West Coast surf head Hatchback, LA dude Eddie Ruscha (Secret Circuit), New York's Soft Circle (a.k.a Hisham Bharoocha, ex-Black Dice drummer), Cornwall's Kerrier District, and Brighton's Soft Rocks. Add to this unreleased remixes of Black Devil Disco Club, Glass Candy, and Georges Vert by Richard Sen (Padded Cell), Brain Machine, Johan Agebjorn, and Rune Lindbaek. New discoveries like Pink Stallone from New York, Norwegian disco viking Lukas Nystrand, Italo fiend CFCF, and East-Coast-meets-West-Coast duo Expanding Head Band (actually Tussle producers Quinn Luke and Alexis Georgopoulos a.k.a Bing Ji Ling and Arp).

Oh, and there's an exclusive track from Sorcerer in league with Milky Globe (possibly his best since the classic "Surfing at Midnight"), a new track from Soul Jazz's Subway, and Pete Lawrence of The Big Chill's Chilled by Nature outfit remixed by Windsurf with vocals by the legendary Swingle Singers.

Phew! So there we have it: a disco compilation strong enough to stun an ox. Just like the last Milky Disco compilation: "If the gods are into music, I suspect they listen to this. The sound of the cosmos." - Jean-Robert Saintil