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various - elaste vol. 4 - meta-disco & proto-house - compost - vinyl

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Genre: Disco

1. Charanjit Singh- Raga: Madhuvanti
2. C Cat Trance - Shake The Mind
3. Disco D - Beat It
4. Cybotron - Mumbo Jumbo
5. Rinder & Lewis - Gluttony (Dompteur Mooner Edit)
6. Barbara Norris - Heavy Hitter (Dompteur Mooner Edit)
7. Tambien - Quedarte (Vinyl Only Bonus Track)
8. Equip - XXXO
9. NAD - Distant Drums
10. Dopplereffekt - Infophysix

The fourth chapter in the Elaste series, compiled by Dompteur Mooner!

The best metaphor for this genre is Charanjit Singh's 1982 album Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat in which he created a sound which mirrors, but more importantly pre-dates, the first acid house record by five years. It is no novelty record, but truly capturing the hypnotic potential of acid/house music. It became my key track for Elaste Volume 4.

Previous incarnations of Elaste have aimed to catch the spirit of the late 70's Italian Cosmic Discotheque, a place where the history of DJing was rewritten within this microcosm. For this latest instalment I was most intrigued by weird of-the-time (or 'out-of' as the case turned out to be) electronic disco, a vast genre!

Bringing together those progressive avant-garde tracks that were expanding the genres of house, disco, acid, new wave, and ultimately use Elaste as a vehicle to highlight those tracks that were ahead of their time. These legendary works ranges from 1978 to 1996, a wide spectrum of musical history, in which some of the older tracks may sound modern, and newer ones sound may sound vintage.

Many of these authentic back-to-the-aural-future moments were initial sparks for whole genres - Larry Heard´s Disco-D alias happened just before house music. Greg Wilson's 1984 project Equip was produced for a UK Electro compilation, but never made the LP, because it sounded simply too futuristic. Michael Rinder´s Gluttony can't be called Disco any more, not even Post-Disco. For Elaste Vol. 4 we have built Vintage Futurism as a home for these ultramodern mavericks. - Dompteur Mooner