tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898281047850506707.post6520996489980387282..comments2023-09-09T18:25:17.910+03:00Comments on melodija: Gājēju Motīvsmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13045001292179929148noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898281047850506707.post-817975367449120042015-08-27T22:03:10.199+03:002015-08-27T22:03:10.199+03:00Such a shame that you have stopped posting (though...Such a shame that you have stopped posting (though I understand that it takes a lot of work and you get hardly any thanks except repost requests) as I am a huge fan of Soviet/Eastern Bloc disco/electronic/experimental music, but coming from England, I rely on blogs like yours for information.<br /><br />Luckily, after seeing your post, I managed to find rips of the three Instrumentālais Ansamblis Vjačeslava Mitrohina tracks and they are just all incredible, they remind me of the 1985 Meteo album - this wonderful mix of disco with jazz/funk/progressive/electronic elements - it is such a shame that these seem to be the only tracks they did as I can't stop listening to them!<br /><br />According to Discogs, Melodiya had a series called 'Mūzika Diskoklubos' and released three albums in total with this name - this LP in 1983 and the other two in 1987 as you mention in the post. There are a few YouTube tracks on the Discogs page for one of the 1987 albums and you are right, the few posted sound more like bland generic eighties western pop songs - though often there are one or two good tracks at least on these Soviet era disco compilations (I am guessing this series was aimed at the Latvian market, though I would have thought they would have been distributed throughout the Soviet Union - perhaps some kind Russian person can tell me if this is the case).<br /><br />http://www.discogs.com/label/594413-M%C5%ABzika-Diskoklubos<br /><br />Above link for info on the series, though there's only 3 on Discogs, I imagine there could be other compilations released in this series - who knows!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248709047947170392noreply@blogger.com