All good music is from Portland. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] MP3: “Videotapes” – Blouse Video: “Into Black” – Blouse xx, Baron von Luxxury is My Fake Name @luxxury Share

Probably the most Sophie’s Choice-iest ever version of the age old question: “which is better, the original or the cover”? I must confess that I slightly prefer the Robert Palmer

So this post is more of a call to arms, as I’ve now been looking for this track on vinyl with meticulous obsession for a while now, and to no

Its not that often that I find myself going back to the same song, let alone the same album, time and time again. So when it does happen, over

If I close my eyes I imagine that Ford & Lopatin’s fantastic new album Channel Pressure is really just a long-delayed follow up to Scritti Politti’s 1985 masterpiece “Cupid &

My friend Damien from France just hipped me to this great mini-documentary deconstructing the multitracks behind Blondie’s iconic, Moroder-influenced track “Heart of Glass“. I especially love the story behind the

Kind of a lazy post here, no appologies though, as you get the visual and the audio (although you can’t take it with you, unless your Iphone is now a

I’m excited to give you, dearest Disco Workout readers, my official remix for one of my favorite discoveries of 2011, Canadian synth-pop-Opera-stress Austra. I think this is my best production

As you can clearly see from the photo above I am hanging out with some very close friends in Berlin. Here are some things I am enjoying listening to with

All-time boogie alert (this jam has been on repeat in the Hobo household since I got hold of it)! Extreeeeeeeemly tough to find the original on Shakin’ Records, and

So, I’m at it again, after a long hiatus from bloggin’ (due to the working through of weekends, and vacationing in NYC where I ended up working the entire time

What a bummer to wake up and learn that French-Tunisian Ed Banger star Dj Mehdi died on a Paris rooftop last night, celebrating his birthday with his friends. Just horrible.

I’ve been loving this gorgeous new, epic 9 minute balearic cathedral disco song “Valley of Paradise” by UK’s aptly named Psychemagik. While based on (and totally encompassing) David Crosby’s “Orleans”,

Did you know you can trademark common phrases? Here is the cover art (photographed amazingly by Patrick Fraser and gorgeously designed by Larimie Garcia) to my forthcoming release on Manimal

Meet Benedek: L.A.’s latest crusader of all things boogie and modern funk (and not to mention a personal homie of your’s truly). Last week the budding Proximal Records released Benedek’s