1. Dust / 2. Brumaire / 3. Material / 4. Manifesto / 5. 1905 / 6. Hues of Red / 7. Hide and Seek / 8. Engineers
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
1. Dust / 2. Brumaire / 3. Material / 4. Manifesto / 5. 1905 / 6. Hues of Red / 7. Hide and Seek / 8. Engineers
Limited Edition Red Vinyl LP.
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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£21GBP
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
1. Dust / 2. Brumaire / 3. Material / 4. Manifesto / 5. 1905 / 6. Hues of Red / 7. Hide and Seek / 8. Engineers
Includes unlimited streaming of MLDE
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about
'1905', is the third single to be taken from ‘MLDE’, the debut album from the Marxist Love Disco Ensemble. Merging disco, 80s pop, and boogie into the fold, the group seeks to eradicate both the trite from disco and the sobriety from political music. Half poetic, half tongue-in-cheek, this stunning album is influenced by Eastern European and Mediterranean '70s disco records.
Marxist Love Disco Ensemble was formed by percussionist Paolo Volkov in Bologna with a number of Italian, Slovenian and Croatian jazz musicians. It was recorded at a makeshift studio in Ljubljana with the group spending a two-week period living together, improvising and transcribing the jams into something more coherent.
‘1905' was written about the failed 1905 Russian Revolution, and it finds the Marxists Love Disco Ensemble at their poppiest. Sounding like a cassette freshly discovered in a time capsule, ‘1905' has an early 80's cross-over pop-new wave sound. The song is influenced greatly by Boban Petrović and other ex-Yugoslav disco songs. It features the pianist on vocals, and they are reminiscent of Orange Juice and Chas Jankel. They play a glorious accompaniment to the dreamy, female backing vocals underpinning the song. At its backbone, the production edges towards Italo disco, with a driving synth bass, bubbling keys, crispy punchy beats, with many instruments put through the Roland Space Echo. This one is designed for the club as much as the radio.
The album from which the single was taken was mastered by Joker aka Liam McLean who sprinkled his magic dust on the productions.
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
This album features five previously unreleased songs from Brazilian disco artists, Robson Jorge and Lincoln Olivetti. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 1, 2023
