ANUMBEROFNAMES SHAREVARI

[Nerph19]

ding dong ding doooooooooooooooong

[Hoody321]

this was so ahead of its time

[nickernosher]

techno goes back furter than detroit!!! period.. it just made its name there thats all..and props for that too

[PaddyButton]

Some bread and cheese and fine white wine ...

[atlantichouse]

The proof if proof be needed that Detroits 'techno' origins lie somewhere east of the river rhine.

[NuToobz]

beppy!!

[MrVinyl09]

sick electro beat!! go 1980s!!

[noidddd]

hmmm this is supposedly from the 60's...

even sounds more like techno than this song.

crazy!

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[guillermofeto12983]

sound like kraftwerk 

[wwediva22334]

i love the 80s sogs now suck

[eleesmith]

good info about the name sharevari.i do remember the club promoters charivari.i thought this record was affiliated with them.those were the days.charivari,ciabottino.snob­bs.marche.bid ups to the 80's

[eleesmith]

this shit sound so phuckin good

[djmusicjac]

awesome, 1980's chicago techno house, music was at its best in this era of time, the music producers and artists were more creative then, there was more style, uniqueness to music then, nowadays all music sounds same, rock da house, 5 stars

[BenWuthe]

its a MASTERPIECE!

[1988acid]

God and i thought Juan Aitkins Alleys Of Your Mind was the first Detroit Electro Techno track.

[Nouthje]

Love it

[panthervoodoo]

I remember dancing to this in the 9th grade at Lutheran High West Icebreaker dance in Detroit, then running home to watch it on the Scene and hearing The Electrifying Mojo playing it at night. Gone are the days......

[AmAxOReload]

Yeah, this is great.

[spacecakematt]

too bad i was too young to know what this master piece is when it came out. for me, its one of the best classics ever.

[homePicShow]

love the wonky arpeggio !

[statelybird3]

I'm listening and jamming to this since the Movement fest is kicking things up down at Hart Plaza this Memorial Day weekend, for those who want to know. The only 3-day technofest in the country---come one, come all! I'm sure somebody pulled this old-school classic out at some point!

[wayjac67]

The Sound Of Detroit, always will be home to me.

[TheMysticAudio]

tune!

[wayjac67]

How can i get this music on my i pod?

[vmontgomery84]

@wayjac67 they actually have sharevari on itunes. I just purchased the song for .99 cent

[trevormail]

Heard that this one Detroit dude recently dug thru the invoices at the pressing plant where they did both Shari Vari and Alleys of Your Mind -- It was still ambiguous which was recorded and/or released first.

[str8zilla]

@trevormail.....alleys of your mind summer of 81......sharivari came late summer early fall of the same year.....remember L'umo's 7 mile & john r.....

[every1luvzangie]

Detroit techno at its best!

[vmontgomery84]

@every1luvzangie DJ Assault still uses that in some of his mixes

[sonick808]

pure Detroit !!

[piccanninni]

Help!!! My heads started bopping up and down!!! Now my feet Wont Stop Movin'!!! Whooooah, sideways... sideways!!!! Helppppp!!! Even the dog is dancin'!!!

Wow, this takes me waaay back; Electrotabulous post Chicagowax.

[lesscunning]

hott !!!

[dasroofless]

Really appreciate the back story. Thanks

[jbreezy103]

skitso skitso skitso i know some of my youtube detroiters got this one somewhere in the archives i need this one posted

[djimpelr]

I need to get that Techno Rebels book! I also need to put this on a Cd for my "Cosmic Car". this song is pure BOSS.

[singitback8]

YES PLEASE SOMEONE POST " SKITSO " ~~~ THAT WAS THE BIG TRACK in DETROIT when i was a kid ....it was THE BOMB !!!!!!!!!!!!

[gohan32]

It just furthers my argument that the f**kin yuppy hipsters need only to go research the old stuff instead of looking for the "newest hippest techno beat." It's all been done before, and you are not some alternative individual you little s**ts with mommy and daddy's credit card.

[jbreezy103]

chicagowax in your info file u mentioned skitso that is the one that i cant find if u got it please post

[jbreezy103]

im in las vegas now but if any of my detroiters remember a number of names record "skitso" i need someone to please post i know somebody up there in the "D" is remembering that one holla back

[esoterror]

At the time when these records were made there was no such thing as "Techno", if anything the first time these were put on compilations for a wider audience it was as "Electro" on the Streetsound series.

I believe they later called it Techno because of a Model 500 track on the 10 Records compilation "Techno The New Dance Sound Of Detroit" which is nearly 10 years after this...

[DjDrakeBloufeld]

@esoterror the name "techno" comes from a german artist called talla 2xlc, he worked i a recordstore. to make it easier for his costumers he placed all music of this kind together under the name "techno"

greetings from germany ;)

[ShariVari78]

Duh!! It was the first Detroit techno song and it is fuckin awesome!!!!!!!

[ReginesRegime123]

no! this is not techno! techno contains quantized sequenzer-beats. here the different tracks are running out of synchronisation and creates a kind of "shuffle". juan atkins made the first techno-record (no ufos): it contains future-sounds and and a hard quantized machine-beat: the definition of techno! ;-)

[mekanopsis1]

It has the feel that makes techno techno.......

[crazywomancreek]

no. i think they meant the first "Detroit" techno track or something I read. . . .

[mgrant50]

I don't get how folks call this the first techno record. If you ask them what they were making the day they made this they would not tell you techno. Back then it would have been considered new wave as it was a tune of the day like what you'd hear on WLBS. Don't go backwards and say everything electronic all of a sudden is techno. Marcus Belgrave once said some of his experimental stuff from the 70s would be considered techno (if you use this as a standard).

[jaylyrikal]

my brother is judson powell

[hype1tube]

Now this is one hard-to-find record! Thanks for posting. Got remixed by Ectomorph and Vitalic & The Hacker in 2001. Great tunes, but I like this original one the most.

[10brink]

great track! thanks for posting :)

[UptownYardy]

Love dis choon.

Anyone got a download link?

[secondchapter]

I remember this being played on "The Scene" - around 1982. I was a dancer on the show. GREAT jam.

[JustinGrunwald]

@secondchapter I loved "The Scene" and I've only seen seen it re-broadcast VIA youtube.

[xerfes]

@secondchapter Which one of them?!

[tonyvalente]

classic.

[evansamanda]

thisi was on a wax trax comp i think mixed by juan atkins love this song and the version of dj assault sex on the beach

[scutte2000]

The lead vocalist is my brother-in law Paul Lesley , the group sends many thanks for all the support shown for this song.

[berlinsneakerz]

HOT!

[sleestack808]

who was ANUMBEROFNAMES? One guy? A group?

[donnywal]

Group. very rare 12"

[dcreatorx]

The bassline on this track has nothing to do with Telex and Kraftwerk. You are wrong. Tune your ears !!!

[SassyLass924]

@dcreatorx

Not true---if you listen to Moscow Discow by Telex, both songs share a similar bassline---interestingly enough, Detroit DJ Carl Craig got the chance to remix and reintroduce Moscow Discow a decade ago to a new audience--it's a cool-ass song all by itself. (I danced to a set of his 3 years ago at the Detroit Tastefest---in fact, he played "Sharivari" and other techno classics which had me and everybody throwing down in front of the Fisher Building!)

[BenFiesta]

Such a lousy kraftwerk ripoff really.. Coz I like it anyway

[mlino69]

phat.

[internetmachine]

This REALLY reminds me of Moscow Disco by Telex. Go ahead and listen to it, you'll know what i'm talking about.

[jbreezy103]

why have none of my detroit brothers posted the record skitso by this same group

[THE1DJJONES]

This was a party starter at the basement parties on the eastside. Thanks

[Motownbrother]

Oh yeah, I remember that, wow you've got a good memory mallymal68, Ah yes, back he was the WGPR, I think one of his lines was, "we're now about to go warp 1 0 7 point 5..." The Scene was definately a piece of Motown culture from the 70's, 80's, and early 90's the way Motown records was in the 60's. But big conglomerate TV has a way of squashing the culture out of local programming doesn't it?

[dmoedman]

I knew it. Just checking and settling arguments over here. The Electrifying MOJO was the man! I grew up listening to that guy as a kid. I think he the reason I love Prince and all things FUNKY!

[dmoedman]

These guys from Detroit?

[mallymal68]

of course! Original shit from the D! Circa 1982. I was there!

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What a waste!! sjarrie, sjarrie, sjarrie sjarrie varrie, harry, marry, warry darry, varry karrie !! A 3 YEAR OLD WROTE THESE LYRICS!!!!!

[jbreezy103]

what about skitso can anyone post

[Tambian88]

Taking into account as with regards to the *ELECTRIFYING MOJO* allegedly played this on tape in the 80's well before CYBOTRON, I'd have no qualms in claiming this to be the 1st ever Detroit Techno press!

In addition to contrary belief, this was one of the 1st tracks that the B-BOYS were dancing to in the 80's...

Incidentally, the name SHAREVARI was taken from New York clothes store *CHARIVARI* selling items from Prada to Versace, well b4 they had there own established shops!

Tam:)

[Motownbrother]

Aha, Tambian88, I take then you remember MFA, if you're in car honk your horn, or flash your headlights. If you're at home flick your porch light off, and on to let people know you're down with M.F.A. And now its time for Star Wars 45, Rick James vs Prince.

[mallymal68]

"Tie a knot and just keep hangin on, cuz ain't nobody bad like you!" "don't say woe, say whammy woe" The Electrifying Mojo had to be sparking the cheebah during his broadcasts (lol).

[Motownbrother]

Makes you glad you were there doesn't it?

[scutte2000]

Thank you I always tell people this came out before Cybotron 81 ALWAYS comes before 83, the lead vocalist is my brother-in law. I introduced them at the 2001 DEMF ,with Mago Mike and stated this first as such.

[rog809]

i was looking for this song for so long .... i heard a remix vercion in svent vaht dj set coocoon sound of the last season 2004.

[Motownbrother]

Yes really, it has a steady enough tempo to jump rope to. Well Chicagowax, you just made my day. They love stuff like this in Japan.

[Motownbrother]

Thanks Chitown, I taught some of my kids in Takashino to jump rope to this song. They love it once they got over the initial giggling and laughter.

[Chicagowax]

Ha Ha...i'll have to try that one with my 2 daughters when they get older. Techno Skipping!!!

[Motownbrother]

Say, Chicagowax, quick question about this song. Is it on a CD somewhere? If it is so please tell me where. We're having a sports festival in another few months. I'd like to train my kids to skip this song.

[Storm90211]

This was the theme song for the group of guys who formed a club in the 80's called Charivari. That is when fun was for real.

[sheepdish]

thanks for the great insight to the history of the record. one of the greatest songs in EDM history, in my opinion.

[rattler067]

thanks bro :)

[rattler067]

oh yeah bring back memories especially watching the scence and listening to mojo but i like the instrumental version  hopefully u can post that up for me lol

[Chicagowax]

I do that one next time...no probs.