So all the kids are, apparently, going crazy over any and everything that Strut Records has thrown onto their upcoming Disco Not Disco compilation.
Among the highlights: A Number Of Names’ beyond-classic “Shari Vari”, a Detroit slab of hotness that, inevitably, found an Electrocla$$$$$h-in resurrection (not undeserved, mind you); with its over-stoic, European-esque vocal delivery and the dark, slicing synth undercurrent, “Shari Vari” has long been a gem just laying in wait for generations of various phases of electronic music to find it.
Now, though, with folks like JUSTICE having not just removed the dance music prejudice but pushed the whole genre into the fore-front of popular music, it’s about time the phenomenal no-wave of Detroit, New York and Berlin found its way back to the top.
A Number Of Names vaguely-gothic, vaguely-disco, kinda-tech all-in-all confusing, befuddling and entrancing original.
A Number Of Names: Shari Vari (ADULT. fembot mix)
The amount which I adore the freakish, electronic massacre that is Adam and Nicola of ADULT. is belabored. The greatness with which they handled this, a re-take of the original “Shari Vari”, isn’t. In fact, I daresay it’s my favorite version out of the billions done in appreciation of the song, but it oft gets passed over (in the same way ADULT. themselves too often get passed over). If you need colder, more frozen, more removed-this is it.
Educate yourself-check the full Shari Vari remix 12′ at Boomkat.
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