Transvolta - Disco Computer

[Bluelikevelvet]

10 souls aren't the future.

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

Out in 1979 but would have fitted in so perfectly in that period in 1977 when amazingly modern electronic stuff took over the pop charts - Donna Summer 'I Feel Love', Jean Michel Jarre, Space, Cerrone, Giorgio Moroder (as a solo artist)...

[Scone54]

and if you look to the top of the mountain, you will see where the screwdriver..and the woman in the showercap..live their life.

[slyboyhanne]

got this 12

[FlashFace]

What a fantastic track. Way ahead of its time. Elements of Kraftwerk and Daft Punk. Love it.

[fuel8555]

i want more of this good song :) where can i get more of this?please

[TrainmasterCurt]

Great tune! Funky

[Euro3urger]

wow i never heard this before bloody awsome haha i want a disco computer !!!

[freq32]

pure future classic here. this bitch slaps hard.

[Arwinspeceis123]

Heard this on Komputer Kast vol.4, loved it. Check it out for a lot more 70-80's style disco

[ministeredj]

Dan Lacksman is truly a god.

[karitony]

i'm awake of 08h30 , it's now 18h00 , this sound got me just goin insane, this is what i've been lookin for, i feel this track the more and more i listen to. Cheers !

[tigerwoman]

Timeless.

[scrumsie]

Id rather buy a BJ computer .

[praetorianus65]

And it STILL sounds futuristic in 2011!

Vocoder fans also check:

- Jonzun Crew

- Neil Young: Sample and Hold

[djmusicjac]

heard it again, totally love it, i can imagine all robotic dances to this tune

[TrainmasterCurt]

@djmusicjac And i could do just that!

[ronny0ragtroll]

my father has this vinyl i grew up with this sound !

[djmusicjac]

this is robot pop

[adamski177]

THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING. THIS IS SUCH AN AMAZING TRACK....LOVE IT!

[espiriguidiberto]

great sound and inspiration...first time I listen to it

[jamieolmstead]

is this mixmaster josh druckman of the forest in the american north?

[bujjub]

dope!!!

[maadlus]

Found this information on the web about this great track: Transvolta actually is Dan Lacksman of Belgium band Telex. Cool!

Thanks for the posting, I myself try to post some obscure disco/new wave tunes :)

[alexanderj1987]

@maadlus that'd be awesome.

[MrTanglewood100]

My father owns this sigle! It's been at least 20 years since i heard this!

[djwavmaster]

I know that vocoder from anywhere! It's the ultra-rare Sennheiser VSM-201!

[franciscotandy]

I totally agree@druckman

[nursemelody]

This is so cool it is hard to believe that it exist!

[PULSEWAVERECORDS]

This is great! Since I am old enough to have experienced the 70`s I really remember the disco era!!!!

[VoiceEncoder]

Sennheiser Vocoder VSM201 (Mk1 or Mk2?)!!!

[tbitsu27]

Where can I find more of Transvolta? this shit is dope

[vidz4free]

was one of my favourite in 1979 - I AM THE DISCO COMPUTER, WOULD U LIKE 2 DANCE WIT ME?

[faecophagist]

bliss

[Admos2000]

It's from 1979??!! Me too :-)

[ArtBladeOWG]

Whoaaaa! Hehehe, THAT'S IT! :D Nice one, great vocoder sound.. coming from 1979 makes this even more interesting. thanks!

[spikolo]

qualcuno sa cosa dice il testo?

almeno le prime tre parole..volevo rifarle col vocoder.

[BeatSiren]

Powerfully sublime 

[stemontu]

brilliant!

[REXER1977]

french or german ?

[ronhilhorst]

ha ha i become also an elite druckman i have the singele to .

[BIGSA714]

i guess i just cant understand techno... im too FUNKed up in the head... n too DISCOed out... and im 18yrs old...

[BIGSA714]

Siccness... I must have this shit!!!

[TrainmasterCurt]

I could dance to this all night long!

[blahdavid]

Can anybody say AIR?

[TrainmasterCurt]

This song must've inspired Rational Youth like Kraftwerk did!

[onedeafear]

Totally addictive - thanks to alanalan for playing me this at 5am on the way to Holland.

[popspie]

only just looking into this genre.. and i'm liking it a lot already! could be paid tribute to by mixing it into the newer housey stuff

[Baueresque]

@popspie Leave it alone! Please!

[TheGreatMozeek]

Amazing.

[scrumsie]

Omg once i danced to this.

[vidz4free]

OMG, I've heard this song the last time 30 years ago, thanks for posting mate!

[zwarteraaf]

member of telex

[djixtapu]

pull your member out of my hockey box @259....

[dancingwithnacos]

Love space disco from 70's!! listen to cerrone!

[The096757]

if i could hear something obscure like this in satellite radio i'd be willing to pay for it.

they need a 70s station dedicated to dance/disco/electronica only.

[TrainmasterCurt]

Let the funky analogue do it's thang!

[TrainmasterCurt]

Sounds like a Linn drum machine used on this track

[MARANTZamp]

@TrainmasterCurt

NOPE! Real drums here.

btw: the linn wasn't out until 1980

[TrainmasterCurt]

@MARANTZamp Did'nt they have Syn-Drums?

[ronhilhorst]

who have the answer is this giorgio moroder or gino soccio or kraftwerk please tell me !!!

[avsifk]

@ronhilhorst

I'ts neither of those.

Go to Discogs site and you'll find it all...

:)

[prettybionic]

yeah..kool track ,but more electro than disco,if ya talkin about the beats!

[MrYuppie]

Excellent.

[Zathauntie]

Holy shi... I hadn't heard this since i was a preteen. I would remember this song and NEVER was able to find it. Thank you!!!

[gticat1]

love that boom box sharp gf 777

[ourvinylcollection]

This is wonderful !!!

[realscoopex]

rocks!

[kitschetc]

picked this up for 10p in a junk shop a few months back !

Ace track, kraftwerk meets moroder meets peter jacques band!

[eleven38]

10p? wow BARGAIN!

[klausen12]

Dan Fucking !!!! Lacksman

[elektrobi]

classic

[edgertor]

dan lacksman! telex!

[PCchongor]

.24-.28

.53-.57

[strucel]

This song is totally cheese.

[eleven38]

u are clueless mate. what u doin viewing this if u think its cheese

THIS IS CLASS

[lemmidos]

aye, totally, but it's silken cheese

[Basseck]

30 years ago - a time when computers were mysterious and unknown machines to most of the ordinary people and a computerized future seemed to be threatening and frightening. HAL, where are you?

[BOX5]

this type of shit can come bacc now haha yell

[MarcoMinghelli]

lame

[Atlantikonrad]

il futuro,i daft punk hanno decisamente copiato anche l'idea

[heshter]

Just DJed this one out in Tokyo last weekend, the natives felt the funk.

[gadhaffi]

den er så heftig! this is choice music .. it goes directly into my neural system, and i'm dancing the robot dance

[DannyRind]

Found the 12" today for 50p at a car boot sale!

[shingo2302]

lucky you!!

[RegenBogenBlick]

High grade quality.

[eleven38]

This is the phatest vocoder iv heard, ever! BLISS!

:) :) :)

[cooldogface]

roger troutman dude. he was the MASTER!!!

[AnalogVocoder1]

Roger Troutman dealt strictly in talk-boxes, NOT vocoders!!  This is a VOCODER!!!

[AnalogVocoder1]

Bode 7702 or Moog, imho!!

[cooldogface]

i was just going off of wikipedia, which, i know isn't always the most reliable. they did say, however, that he had a custom built vocoder from electro harmonix (the "golden throat") and a yamaha dx100 and was known for his use of the talkbox AND vocoder.... but that's wikipedia.

[VoiceEncoder]

The "Golden Throat" is a talk-box...this is a vocoder.

[AnalogVocoder1]

I wish you'd correct your description!! This is NOT the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder, BUT either the Bode 7702 Vocoder OR the Moog 16-Channel MBVO 327A Vocoder!! I think it's the Bode 7702 Vocoder!!! The Arp Idka some1 else will have to say.

[frankeenstein]

Very much ...inspired by Giorgio Moroder's "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone". Nice track nonetheless.

[reinco]

This is great! I'm very happy with the 7" I have, still looking for the 12" though.

[AnalogVocoder1]

NOT the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder (IT wasn't around back then), BUT either the Bode 7702 Vocoder OR it's twin the Moog 16-Channel MBVO Vocoder!!!

[djmrbrown00]

cockcoders.. huh???

[chumashfalcon]

this is a gem, I dont know why this song hasnt had a resurrection like so many other robot songs.

[AnalogVocoder1]

Bode 7702 Vocoder

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[AnalogVocoder1]

COOL VOCODING, BTW!!!!

[AnalogVocoder1]

This is NOT the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder, NOR either of the two Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus models!!! This MOST LIKELY is the Bode 7702 Vocoder. I own an SVC-350 and it sounds NOTHING like this. On the other hand Arp may be correct, Idk since I don't have 1.

[AnalogVocoder1]

Plus the SVC-350 wasn't out in 1979 only the infosheet which was released in Sept.'79. The vocoder came-out in Japan sometime in '80, and the rest of the world in '81. So therefore farther PROOF this ISN'T the SVC-350!!!!  As I said imho it's MOST LIKELY the Bode 7702 Vocoder.

[AnalogVocoder1]

The Bode is a BETTER vocoder than the Roland's. It's up there with the Moog (it's twin), the Synton Syntovox's, the Sennheiser, the Musicoder, and the EMS Vocoders!!!

[druckman]

Thanks for helping to ID this vocoder and with the info on the Rolands. It does have a better sound than I'm used to. Question: As far as all these vocoders you mentioned go, is not the sound they produce mostly dependent on the carrier signal and the number of filter bands? The rolands have 10 bands and the bode has 16... other than that I don't know how they could sound 'nothing alike' if an ARP was used on both of them. What's your take on it? Comments?

[AnalogVocoder1]

The output sound depends on both the synth and the vocoder. The synth is the primary and the vocoder is secondary. But both will sound different with different partners. A Roland Vocoder will not sound the same as a Bode EVEN if you use the same synth!! And changing synths on a vocoder WILL make it sound different, but it will still sound like whatever brand it is. Just like synths all vocoders have their own unique sound which has nothing to do with the carrier sound. I have a Korg...

[AnalogVocoder1]

Poly-800 and if I use another synth than YES it will sound different (I used to have a Roland JX-8P, and it DID sound different with that). But it STILL sounds like an SVC-350!! So to reiterate all synths and vocoders have their own unique sound which remains the same (underlining), but changes with different partners.

[AnalogVocoder1]

And changing synths on a vocoder WILL make it sound different, but it will still sound like whatever MODEL it is.

[AnalogVocoder1]

I forgot to mention that YES the sound is MOSTLY due to the carrier, BUT NOT totally. And YES more bands are better up to about 24 or so, after that it starts to lose it's coolness (robotic-like sound). Once you get into over 32 bands instead of a robotic sound you get more and more of an angelic sound the more you add. That's why those software, plugin, and other vocoders made for computers sound more like angels than robots, such as the Vokator which has 1024? I think and angelic.

[AnalogVocoder1]

Listen to the song "Resemblance" by Aphelion Run  using the Vokator for that angelic (instead of robotic) sounding vocoder sound.

[klaskatt]

lol, you are so wrong haha, kraftwerk used cocoders isn 1975 album: radio acticity, you moron lol

[AnalogVocoder1]

Hey you illiterate FUCKTARD, I NEVER even mentioned Kraftwerk!! The above statement is about Aphelion Run and their song "Resemblance" which used the computer plugin Vokator for it's vocoder. NONE of my comments up until this one says anything about Kraftwerk. LEARN HOW TO READ!!! BUT YES Kraftwerk had used a vocoder for their 1975 album "Radioactivity" which would either be the one (this is a one-off vocoder) built by Sennheiser...

[AnalogVocoder1]

(but NOT the VSM-201, which they used later for songs like "Robots", "The Man-Machine", "Spacelab", etc.) or the one built for them by R. Barth KG makers of the Musicoder.

[AnalogVocoder1]

YOU MORON, LOL!!!!

[intromix]

Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Giorgio Moroder, Here are some pioneers of early EMS and Sennheiser Vocoder useage...What AnalogVocoder1 is trying to say is that these plugins nowadays aren't as full of character as the earlier vocoders from the mid to late 1970's which sounded warmer and better in electronic and dance music. Some still prefer to use the vintage analog vocoders today in music BECAUSE of that, the sound NEVER dies, these new vocoders are "overnighters" and "die out" rather quickly

[AnalogVocoder1]

intromix - mid 1970's to early-mid 1980's!!! Giorgio Moroder mostly (or totally?) used the Moog 16-Channel MBVO Vocoder!!! The rest is correct.

[intromix]

Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Giorgio Moroder, Here are some pioneers of early EMS and Sennheiser Vocoder useage...What AnalogVocoder1 is trying to say is that these plugins nowadays aren't as full of character as the earlier vocoders from the mid to late 1970's which sounded warmer and better in electronic and dance music. Some still prefer to use the vintage analog vocoders today in music BECAUSE of that, the sound NEVER dies, these new vocoders are "overnighters" and "die out" rather quickly

[TrainmasterCurt]

@intromix So true, you cant beat the old vocoder's, Casco used them and Rational Youth used them too

[JoshGellis]

that is not spam...

[druckman]

How could somebody give this 1 star!?!? That is ridiculous! This is a top disco tune.

[AnalogVocoder1]

I gave it *****

[TrainmasterCurt]

@druckman Yeah, this song is great, so funky and electro!

[amamuffin]

@druckman it must have been be a Lady Gaga fan....

[CoffieshopBergen]

Vo to the coder!!

[PtypeNType]

Woah you were right. This is rad!!!!!!