Disco Nasty

My weekly collaboration with Spencer (he sends me a song, I write about it) has been all about whimsical/ fragile/ fried/ odd psychedelia thus far in 2023, from the very English suburban psychedelics of Woo to John Stout's early 80s proto- electronica, the oddball 50s cool jazz/ spoken word of Ken Nordine to Eden Ahbez's pre- hippy Beatnik exotica and the blues chill of Brian Eno's The Moon's Lament. But now we're turning a corner and heading elsewhere, a change of pace and vibe to match the change in the seasons- today's song from Spencer is a Luke Vibert tune

Disco Nasty

We're still in tripped out territory, but rather than the introspection of the recent songs, this is dance floor funk, science fiction funk maybe but booty shaking funk all the same. The bass is a mind twisting, distorted, bouncing line. Bleeps fly in and out. The hi- hat tsk tsk tsks. The sounds begin to layer up, shape shifting and morphing, synth notes bent and modulated.  Eventually a super- distorted voice interjects, something unintelligible. Wah wah synth toplines ride in and out. Distorted disco funk for the outer reaches of the galaxy. 

Disco Nasty of from Kerrier Disstrict, Luke recording under the same name. He's is closely connected to Aphex Twin and Aphex's Rephlex label and his releases in the 90s were in the techno, drum and bass and then trip hop arenas, diving headlong into drill 'n' bass along the way as Wagon Christ (one of my favourite 90s artist pseudonyms). Kerrier District came out in 2004 on Rephlex. It feels much more recent than that and it's with a bit of a shock I realise this album is now nearly twenty years old. You can buy it digitally here.