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Zodiac - Disco Alliance

Melodiya, USSR, 1980

Tracklist :

A1 - Zodiaks - 5:12 (snippet)
A2 - Pacific - 3:52
A3 - Provincials disko - 4:18

B1 - Polo - 3:17 (snippet)
B2 - Miraza - 4:02
B3 - Rokz uz leduz - 2:42
B4 - Alianse - 3:41

(play all tracks)

Janis Lusens (ARP Omni, ARP Odissey, Celesta), Zane Griva (piano, ARP Omni, vocals), Andris Silis (guitar), Ainars Asmanis (bassguitar), Andris Reinis (drums)

Cover of Zodiac - Disco AllianceBackside of Zodiac - Disco Alliance
Label Side A of Zodiac - Disco AllianceLabel Side B of Zodiac - Disco Alliance

“Zodiac” (or “Zodiak” or “Zodiaks”) was one of the big russian bands with a huge following, quite understandable because the music is definately great. You can read up on them on the very informative Wiki-Page about the band.

This record is the most known one, “Zodiac - Instrumental Rock Group” it says on the sleeve, but actually its very 80s disco with alot of synth-sounds aswell as real drums (thank god, I hate the real 80s disco stuff with those electronic drumsounds. 80s in general are a no-go area for me.)
For my personal taste most tracks are abit too slow, but there is atleast this one track that works great to be an opener or late-night filler in a DJ set. It’s A2 - “Pacific”.

But there is a fantastic video of a livegig by Zodiac in Moscow 2006 avaiable on Youtube, gosh I wish I had been there …

The good thing is that this record is actually avaiable as CD-ReIssue all over the world (mostly in a “2 Vinyl on one CD”-Set together with “Music in the Universe”, their other great LP). Go have a look (but be aware that you need to browse abit atleast for the term “Zodiac” because of the movie from Fincher):

Amazon.de : Zodiac Disco | Zodiaks Disco | Zodiac | Zodiaks
Amazon.co.uk : Zodiac Disco | Zodiaks Disco | Zodiac | Zodiaks
Amazon.com : Zodiac Disco | Zodiaks Disco | Zodiac | Zodiaks

Or try your luck to get the original vinyl on www.gemm.com. Or search on google.

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Posted by Looza on Donnerstag, Juni 1, 2006, at 08:26, and filed under 80s, Disco, Melodiya, USSR. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. Kirsten | 1. Juni 2006 at 14:58 | Permalink

    boah, wie GROSSARTIG!!!! wie unglaublich schlecht und gut gleichzeitig! ich habe zwar auch einige leichen im plattenschrank, aber nichts, was das hier übertrifft. ich glaube, ich muß mal zum 1 euro plattenmann auf dem hiesigen campus gehen und nachlegen.
    sehr schön, das! ich freue mich auf mehr

  2. Looza | 1. Juni 2006 at 17:21 | Permalink

    auf jeden fall, da gibts die dollsten dinger. und ich hab einige davon und die kommen alle nach und nach hier rein …

  3. stonesaw | 1. Juni 2006 at 18:07 | Permalink

    yeah, this is the stuff that makes a great opening on a night. uber moogish and wonderful. if you have more disco obscure stuff i would like to hear it :D reminds me of prins thomas mix set. What a opening on this blog!

  4. Looza | 1. Juni 2006 at 18:23 | Permalink

    I have to look but I think thats my only eastern disco-record. Honestly, they didnt made much disco in the eastern countries, more popish-disco stuff, but not real disco. I will try to get another great one for tomorrow :) I think I will kick it off with some good records before I really go to the “random” part.

  5. Vadim | 7. Juli 2007 at 13:25 | Permalink

    ZODIAC had another next cool record - ‘Music In The Universe’, which is better, methinks… Less naive and more rocky and with better sound…
    ZODIAC was a Soviet SPACE.
    In a heyday in USSR, ZODIAC LP was cool beyond belief…

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