alphaville

I have been really enjoying the bits of the new Bryan Ferry stuff that have been popping up here and there over the last few years. Bryan is the former lead singer and main songwriter for Roxy Music, a band that lived from 1971 - 1983. I hadn't heard of them before Greg Wilson put out an edit of 'Love is the Drug', then i discovered that alot of artists are remixing Roxy Music. There are 4 official Roxy Music remix EP's - the fourth one came out in February with some very nice space disco remixes.
Brian Eno was even a band member of and central contributor for Roxy Music in its first two albums, so I think i should go back and do a proper survey of their catalog. Or maybe i will start with their greatest hits.




Anyway, Bryan Ferry always had a solo career alongside the rise and fall of Roxy Music. He is quite well known for doing excellent covers. In 2007 he put out an album of only Bob Dylan covers called 'Dylanesque'. Recently he has been very suscessful contributing his voice, lyrics and songwriting to popular artists. For example, he co-wrote and sang on arguably the deepest cut of the impressive new Groove Armada album 'Black Light'. The Groove Armada track is called 'Shameless', but on his upcoming solo album he does a version of it as 'Shameless (Rock 'n Roll Desire'




Last year, his track 'U Can Dance' with DJ Hell, was huge and made it onto many top ten lists. "It was the mambo talking, it got a lot to say"



There were many remixes of this track - Carl Craig's remix was the biggest I'd say, but I prefer the Tim Goldsworthy remix.




Tim Goldsworthy founded and ran DFA Records alongside James Murphy up until February when RA reported that he left the labels' base in New York and kind of split from the DFA music and sub-culture machine. Regardless, Tim Goldsworthy is and will continue to be a major player in the nu disco scene. Check for his edits and releases with Tim Sweeney (T & T), and his remixes under the Loving Hand and Mustang aliases. Discogs can help you with this.


So the track that inspired this post is the Leo Zero remix of 'Alphaville', maybe the first single off the upcoming album. Very nice!

Bryan Ferry - 'Alphaville' (Leo Zero Remix) by Leo Zero


Eventually I will do an in-depth feature on Leo Zero, as he is someone that has over the past 3 years been steadily and quietly killing it in the growing world of nu disco remixes and edits.

Check out Bryan Ferry's website and myspace for the release date of his new album and for up coming remix packages.