CD Review: Disco Undead

Various – Disco Undead

Label: Device – IRQ08CD

Format: CD, Compilation

Country: UK

Released: 2004

Genre: Electronic

Style: Electro

Picked this little gem up on the now defunct moviegrooves, I bought it based on the cover art alone. What we have here is an awesome compilation of covers of zombie movie and John Carpenter Scores done up electropop style. Forget the fact that you haven’t heard of these bands and Dj’s before, they are all really good.

When each track played I had the warm feel of familiarity but then was quickly turned on head as the tracks were all given the electro treatment.

Although released in 2004, it’s not that hard to find a copy on ebay. I wouldn’t pay more than $25 but they occasionally pop up for more.

Check it out, recommended.

Track list:
Orgue Electronique - Le notti del terrore (04:59)
Gique - Fulci's rotting children (06:03)
It & My Computer - Le droit de tuer (04:38)
Bangkok Impact - The pianist and the reporter (06:49)
Solenoid - Suspiriorum (04:07)
Tobe Hooker - Haddonfield fear factory (04:16)
Legowelt - Season of samhain (04:05)
Johhny Cortex - 7 gates (Disco in room 36) (06:02)
Negative - Cannibal sluts (05:00)
Fictional Character - From another world (06:23)
Le Syndicat Electronique - The anderson alamo (05:12)
Porn Darsteller - Holocaust (08:52)

This is... Son of Cult Fiction 3

Look how awesome this cover is! I know better than anyone you can't judge a book (or CD) by its cover. I have to admit though, I bought this for it's cover.

So cover aside is it any good? Well just about all the "Cult Fiction" series is pretty hit or miss. There might be a couple of good songs and the rest duds, or it could go the other way.

I liked about half the songs on this disc, which for the most parts are theme songs from movies and TV.  It's an eclectic mix to say the least, where else does Urge Overkill share space with the Monkeys?

I'm usually doing good if I can get into at least three songs on any given CD, so this one fairs pretty well and gets my recommendation for a buy, now I have a clean copy of the A-Team theme song to jam out to in my van.

CD Artwork is equally awesome

Media Storage

What would you take with you, if you were going to be away from all your stuff for at least a year? I was faced with that questions when it was decided I would be spending some time with my parents three states away from my old house. I took a couple of books I was in the middle of reading, and some I planned to read. Same thing with DVDs and Blu Rays. When I got to my new place my mom surprised me with an empty bookcase.

I filled the bottom shelf about halfway with my stuff, but over the course of the last six months it's been getting pretty filled. I don't have a "before" picture but this is its current state.

I have taken (blurry) pictures of each shelf click each one for a description of what's stored on each one.

Shelf 1

Shelf 2

Shelf 3

Shelf 4

Shelf 5

Recent Downloads

I review a lot of stuff I download, I don't always link to where I downloaded it. The main reason is the fact that most of the download links I originally got the stuff from has expired and no longer works. Below is some stuff I've downloaded lately and really enjoyed, this time I've added the links to the websites where you can download this stuff.

Alley Cat 1-6 (Comic Book .cbr zipped)
Link: Axon Cozy Smut
Info: Great sharity site focusing on super heroine smut
[warning] site NSFW















Rouge Force (DVD 5, R1 Untouched)

Link: Cosmogeddon

Info: Supplying the people really rare out of print DVDs

Rockem, Sockem Werewolves (fan made compilation of songs featured in films)

Link: The Manchester Morgue
Info: The go to site for hard to find and o.o.p. Sound Tracks and Movie Scores

Review: This is Skateboard Music

Skateboarding Music, what comes to mind, Punk, Hardcore Metal, Dub and Ska? That my be what ultimately came to be known as "skate music", but there was a time when skateboarding was a popular new fad and the skaters themselves had yet to identify themselves with one type of music.

Just like today when a fad burst on the scene that's as big as skateboarding there are industry people ready to make a buck off of it. As an interesting footnote in the story of modern skateboarding there was a time when skateboarding didn't have a defined sound, and the music industry tried (and failed) to make it's own brand of skateboard music.

Released by the German label Diggler "This is Skateboard Music" collects all the sad failed attempts to cash in on the new craze of skateboarding.

With most the music sounding like bad renditions of Beach Boys songs it was obvious that the record companies thought that surf style music would translate over good to the skateboard scene. Other examples are typical pop tunes of the 70's with skateboarding as a central theme.

This is a really cool collection, and something of an oddity. It would be fun to let a modern day "skate punk" sit down and listen to this all the way through and ask their opinion on the very first examples of skateboarding music.

Order it here, listen here.