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About Me

Rick O'Disko was born in 1998- the bastard love child of Donna Summer and Kris Needs. After noodling around with some in-home mixing and track creation, Mr. O'Disko got completely unserious about his tunes and DJ-ing. He is known to mix occasionally for anyone who asks. He usually mixes for free, and does not take requests. Sorry, kids, he's not that kind of DJ.Mr. O'Disko has an albums worth of demo tracks that he will probably never try to sell to a label. He continues to mess around in his den with soundscapes and tracks for the sheer enjoyment of it.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/1/2006
Band Members: Rick O’Disko.
Influences: Secret Knowledge. One Dove. Saint Etienne. Billie Ray Martin. Electribe 101. Peaches. Tiga. Jacques Lu Cont. Guerilla Records. Monkey Mafia. Milan Kundera. Massive Attack. Neneh Cherry. Portishead. Moloko. Roberta Flack. Karen Finley. Orb. GTO. Malcolm McLaren. Elastica. Echobelly. Armand Van Helden. Sandra Bernhard. Joyce Carol Oates. Underworld. Love Corporation. Mark Moore. S’Express. More Protein Records. Dot Allison. Amanda Ghost. Pizzicato Five. Dusty Springfield. Carpenters. Power Bar. Mama & the Papas. Kodo. Fatboy Slim. Beats International. Faithless. EBTG. Gus Gus. Xpress2. David Sedaris. Lords of Acid. Belgian New Beat. Brooks Beast 9. Josh Wink. Ruby/Lesley Rankine. Chris & Cosey. Simian Mobile Disco. The Opiates. Robyn. Eurythmics. Giorgio Moroder. Kraftwerk. JFK. ITS Troupe 1019. Acid House. Deep House. Early House. Any House.
Sounds Like: Stripped-down techno-house-electro-acid-hip hop-whatever.
Record Label: Disko Systems (aka my DVD-ROM burner)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Download The Opiates NOW.

If you know what’s good for you - and you know that I know what’s good for you - you will go right now to iTunes or somewhere else and download The Opiates’ Anatomy of a Plastic Girl...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:02:00 PST

Hybrid Shmybrid

Last week Tom and I were driving through the city behind someone in a Toyota Prius. I was thinking, Hmmm... I guess I could see myself in one of those... I'd consider buying a hybrid - it's probably w...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:09:00 PST

In honor of Ms. Billie Ray Martin

I offer to you my latest- "Redisko Me." It's to celebrate the fabulous frigid sound of electronic disco... back when drum machines and analogue synths took over... when Donna Summer and Giorgio Morode...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:46:00 PST

More doctors than you can shake a stick at....

OK, so I've been spending too much time in waiting rooms lately. Lots of medical professionals poking and prodding me. I had my tonsils out a few weeks ago (not as bad as everyone told me it woul...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:07:00 PST

26.2

Thank you to everyone who helped me make it across the finish line on October 7:Tom for support and for humoring me through the entire processThe world's greatest pit crew: Mom, Karolyn, Alicia, Camry...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:36:00 PST

24

24 miles on Sunday- my longest run ever and I felt really strong throughout. Basically, it was three 8-mile sections along the Niskayuna/Colonie bike path where a good chunk of the marathon takes plac...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:47:00 PST

Never in my life...

Holy Hannah.... So I ran a 12-mile race in Mayfield yesterday. It was the holy trinity of hateful running conditions: hills, heat and humidity. Rolling hills the entire way. Temperatures that hovered ...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:15:00 PST

Updates

Happy to report that training continues to go well- thanks + good energy to the universe for looking out for me. Had a terrific run in Rhode Island over the weekend, and a truly inspiring track workou...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:27:00 PST

Updating Everybody

I have been so out-of-touch with everyone lately. I haven't spoken with Carrie in forever.... I've ignored my family.... I've just fallen off the face of the earth.By way of explanation, I should say ...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:52:00 PST

So close...

Ain't it always the way: you're having the race of your life and you feel great and you're confident and feeling strong.... and then you start hyperventilating and it's all over.Well, that was my race...
Posted by Rick O'Disko on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:14:00 PST