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After the brilliant critical reaction to the "What I Did On My Summer Holidays" EP on Radius Records (**** Mixmag), and high praise from some of the biggest movers and shakers on the new disco scene, here comes "Robot Strut", another vocoder-driven excursion into analogue electro-disco, coming soon on Little Rock Records !The first Trippy Disco release "What I Did on My Summer Holidays EP" featuring "Miami Playa", "Miami Dub", "Mote I Verdensrommet" and "Frankfurt in Fifteen" is still available through Radius Records , without a doubt the world's premiere Italo re-issue label with artists such as Casco, Blackway, Sun La Shan, Barry Mason and Camaro's Gang. Here's some reactions to "What I Did on My Summer Holidays": "I wish my own early productions were as good as this!" Daniel Wang"Excellent stuff!" Lindstrom"I like it!" Justus Kohncke" "Fashion in Space"?! WTF??" Prins ThomasYeah Man!!!

WHAT IS TRIPPY DISCO?

"Trippy Disco" is the combination of deep space and movement: the beats drive you forward, and out the window you hear the whooshing of passing galaxies. The mirrorball Moon casts a thousand points of light into the night sky, and we dance to the rushing of time.Originally Trippy Disco started off as a club night, an excuse to play wigged out disco, funk and house records, at Glasgow's 13th Note club (now Barfly). After a short run on the city's number 1 studio radio station Subcity Radio, The Trippy Disco Show graduated to Radio Magnetic, where it freaked out the aquares form 2002-2007.

DISCOPIA

Always an enterprising geezer, in 2001 Niall started a small fanzine called Discopia to cover the burgeoning new disco scene and the thriving deep house sound of Glasgow. In 2005, with support from the likes of international players Daniel Wang, Greg Wilson, JD Twitch, DJ Apollo and local scene stalwarts Andrew Back, Stuart Hardie, James Pole, Andy Piagentini and Billy Woods, Discopia made the transtitoin form paper fanzine to website.Check it out here: DISCOPIA with articles, features, interviews and charts from people like:

David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Morgan Geist/Metro Area, Daniele Baldelli (Cosmic Disco), DJ I-F (Cybernetic Broadcasting System), DJ Beppe Loda (Typhoon), Laurin Rinder (Rinder & Lewis), Liquid Liquid, Tim Sweeney (Beats in Space), JD Twitch (Optimo) and loads more...

and the radio show:
The DISCOPIA Show , with sets from the likes of

Daniel Wang, Cosmo, Prins Thomas, Greg Wilson, Maurice Fulton, Darshan (Metro Area), Alexander Robotnick, Bangkok Impact, Balearic Mike, Soul Mekanik, Voices Collective

and more...

BEARDISM!

Trippy Disco also has a spin off re-edit project called "Disco Beard". On Christmas Eve's eve 2007 we gave away an LP's worth of free music via Myspace and Little Rock Records, featuring music by the likes of Giorgio Moroder, Siouxsie & the Banshees, LCD Soundsystem, JJ Cale, and more. After acclaim from the likes of Prins Thomas ("Clifton Dyson, Musique and Donald Byrd edits - I'm lovin them!"). The Nearest Faraway Place ("Cracking! These guys have great taste, funk in bucketloads and a sense of humour too!"), Kaminsky ("Great choice of songs!") and the DJs at the legendary festival of realness that is Horse Meat Disco, the LP link has been taken down, but if you know where to look you may still find it...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/29/2006
Band Website: discopia.com
Band Members: All music produced and performed by N. O'Conghaile.
Influences: Disco Disco Disco!

If I had a time machine I know where I'd go - The Garage, The Sanctuary, the Warehouse, the Loft... but man cannot yet bend the rules of space, so this is the closest I can get to time travel!As a child I was into chart music that I now realise is pretty house and disco influenced - Pet Shop Boys, Prince. S'Express, M/A/R/R/S, "Deep In Vogue".After seeing "Saturday Night Fever" in 1995 I was bitten by the Disco bug - in 1997 I heard "Is It All Over My Face (Female Vocal)" and the love affair was cemented.Living in Glasgow from 1997 onwards I was heavily into the deep house scene - Sub Club, Glasgow Underground, Sole Music, Fresh'n'Low, DJ Q, etc., though I also had exposure back home in Ireland form the likes of Sweat, Radio Friendly and the sweet soul mixes of Stevie G. In Glasgow I learned how to DJ, heavily influenced by Derrick Carter and DJ Sneak for their smooth, layered, but nerver boring Chicago styles.Running the Discopia webzine, I have been lucky to talk disco with the likes of Daniel Wang, David Mancuso, I-F, Nicky Siano, Greg Wilson, Lindstrom and more, who have all pointed me to fantastic music from obsure corners of the disco universe.You want more?! Ok, here's a list for you:Idjut Boys/Noid/U-Star Records, Lindstrom/Todd Terje/Feedelity Records, Daniel Wang/Brennan Green/Balihu Records, LCD/DFA/Hercules & Love Affair, Maurice Fulton/Syclops/Mu, I-F/Alden Tyrell/Viewlexx Records/Clone Records, Metro Area/Kelley Polar/Environ Records, Rune Lindbaek/Bjorn Torske/Norwegian House, Salt City Orchestra/Pagan/Paper Recordings, Legowelt/Bangkok Impact/Creme Organisation Records, Chicken Lips/Greg Wilson/Tirk Records/Nuphonic Records, Dimitri From Paris/Daft Poonk/French House, Patrick Cowley's Synths, Arthur Russell's Brain, Larry Levan's Remixes, August Darnell's Songwriting & Andy Hernandez's Arranging, Cybernetic Broadcasting System, I-F DJ sets in unusual locations, Prins Thomas DJ sets pretty much anywhere, Greg Wilson mixes from back in the day, Greg Wilson mixes from today, Giorgio Moroder's "From Here To Eternity" LP, the "Glow Worms" 12" by Chroma Oscura and the fact that some crazy Norwegians make better disco than anything coming out of New York or London.
Sounds Like: Listen to some mixes! Just click on an image to listen..."SUPER MACHO Mix"

An aerobisized mix of Hi-NRG, Eurobeat and Italo. Recorded May 2007.
ft. Taffy, Lime, Pet Shop Boys, X-Ray Connection, Man Two Man, Fancy, Roni Griffiths, Gino Soccio, Disco Connection and more..."MUTANT DANCE Mix"

A blend of electro, disco-dub and rock. Recorded January 2007.
ft Franz Ferdinand, Fashion, Fern Kinney, The Kills, Morgan Geist, Bell X1, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sylvester, Infant Two and more..."NIGHT FLIGHT Mix"

A disco-techno mix for travelling. Recorded Dec 2006.
ft Giorgio Moroder, Bangkok Impact, Equip, Zombi, Betty Botox, LCD, Depeche Mode, Kelley Polar and more..."6AM ETERNAL Mix"

A journey into Balearic & Cosmic Disco inspired deep house, recorded Dec 2006.
ft Visage, Six Cups of Rebel, Tangerine Dream, Cloud One, Moodymann, Fabio Frizzi, Daniel Wang, Level 42, Herb Alpert and more...

"SKOOL OF ROCK! Mix"

All your favourite power-chord Disco-Rock hits! Recorded Jan 2006.
ft Kiss, ZZ Top, Wings, ELO, David Bowie, Queen, Chilly, Tantra, Giorgio Moroder, the Skatt Bros and more...

"TRIPPY DISCO 2000 Mix"

The first ever "Trippy Disco" Mix (with DR-202 & MC-303)! From June 2000.
ft Pierre Henry, H-Foundation, Loose Joints, Buffalo Club, Kenlou, Lionrock, Walter Murphy, Jimi Hendrix and more...
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