Disco Horror

So first off, welcome to the new site!!! Max has been diligently working on the transition from blogger to the clearly radder wordpress format and we are in the midst of a redesign to make Disco Horror the best disco music/horror movie blog in the world!

I’ve been lax about posting lately and while I have some new vinyl waiting on deck I thought I’d share some rad italo videos I’ve come upon recently and not so recently because they are, as described above, rad.  Particularly, these stick to a cosmic/robot theme, with one straying example that falls merely under the “bizarrely awesome” category.

First up is this amazing video of Dee D. Jackson’s ”Automatic Lover” from 1978.  The days were simpler then, Daft Punk had yet to set the benchmark for robot fashion, and there’s something endearing about a woman in a purple space suit, wrapped in a silver dracula cape lamenting to her foil-rapped robot lover how the romanticism of love has been programmed away.  See me feel me hear love me… I am the automatic lover.

Dee D. Jackson “Automatic Lover” (1978)

Fast forward thirty years to this incredible video to Johan Agebjorn’s “Spacer Woman From Mars” featuring Swedish nu-italo queen Sally Shapiro. Chopped and screwed, Jane Fonda has never looked hotter than when Agebjorn’s synths are unwinding behind her as she floats through the brilliant space odyssey Barbarella, battling all the disco maniacs.

Johan Agebjorn “Spacer Woman From Mars (feat. Sally Shapiro)” (2008)

Now let’s move into the animated realm. I hope most of you have heard/seen this, but I felt it necessary to share just in case you havent. This was one of the first italo songs I ever heard and it’s still one of my favorites. La Bionda’s “I Wanna Be Your Lover” puts Rondo Veneziano’s “La Serinissima” to shame, cuz really how can you compete with two Italian dudes battling space monsters as they are drawn into trap after trap by the siren like calls of a beautiful space she-ghost. Fuck robots in baroque fashion getting beamed up amidst a flooded planet, this is the real robot space animated video.

La Bionda “I Wanna Be Your Lover” (1980)

Lastly, we have the outsider in the group but we’ve come full circle in space and time, back to 1978. There are no robots in this one. Just a lot of awesome still shots spliced together, weird masks, colorful drums in the desert, and a Rolls Royce. Bizarrre characters amidst the deserts and wild jungles after a nuclear holocaust or maybe just medical experiments gone wrong, freed from their sterile prison by Jean-Marc Cerrone’s brilliant production.

Cerrone “Supernature” (1978)

Tags: italo, music videos

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