2008/04/16 - Allow Me

Recently I am drawing more guys as well.

I have been a great fan of disco since I was very young. In the past few years I have been listening to more Italodisco and Club music. Today I wanted to introduce these two clips. One is Savage's Only You, a great Italodisco song. The theme played by the electronic keyboard is memorable. Next is a song from Ural 13 Diktators called Name of the Game that samples from Only You except they seem to speed up the beat. Ural 13 Diktators is a duo from Germany, I believe. I have their two albums and both contain excellent tracks. If there is request I will consider to put up one or two tracks from the albums since they seem to be out of print.

Savage - Only You


Ural 13 Diktators - Name of the Game


Please let me know your impressions!

2006/10/11 Renato Zero

Do you all know Renato Zero?  Because I like Hong Kong Counterfeit I came to know many Italodisco artists including Wish Key and Amanda Lear.  I don't know if Renato Zero is considered Italodisco or not, but he became popular in the 1970s for his disco-esque songs in Italy.  Today he is still singing, and I think he is a very famous personality over there!

Rather than being a 'fanart' of the singer, this sketch is more inspired by Renato Zero's stage custom and performance in the 1970s. If you can't tell, it is a man in the sketch. He seems entrance by his own reflection in the mirror.

You can see many of Renato Zero's clips on Youtube.  Here are some from the 1970s that I liked:
Renato Zero - Depresso:
A riveting song! Even in black and white he is fabulous! I think he started his more 'glam' stage in 1977, and this seems before he seriously got all glammed out.
Renato Zero - Mi Vendo and Sospetto:
He was so thin! If I sat in the audience in the first row I would had been worried that he might step on me. At the end of the clip is a short snippet of Sospetto in which our dear friend Renato attempts to become a porcupine.
 Renato Zero - Il Triangolo:
His costume...  This song is awesome!  Very epic!  I'm not quite sure what he is doing wearing those triangles....  But, don't worry kids, it was only the late 1970s so everyone else was doing it too, and Renato doesn't dress like this anymore.  This here is an example of "ultimate fabulous."

I suggest checking out Amanda Lear's New York and Wish Key's Orient Express as well if you enjoyed this (or even if you didn't; Wish Key is excellent).