Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture
Love is the Message podcast
Love is the Message: Music, Dance & Counterculture is a new show from Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert, both of them authors, academics, DJs and dance party orga...
Tim and Jeremy conclude our look at Eurodisco with a series of cuts from the mighty Giorgio Moroder. We hear the silky vocals of Donna Summer, the relentlessness of the 4-to-the-floor, the aesthetics of whiteness and what can only be called Prog Disco.Also in the episode Tim recounts a recent visit to the Philharmonie de Paris, Jeremy revels in a Star Wars rework, and we board the Trans Europe Express once again to spend some time with Kraftwerk.Remember, we have a rolling playlist of all the tracks discussed over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ZpKyqhvhOXfTuPMHCBkFsAnd you can hear plenty of bonus episodes by becoming a patron at patreon.com/LoveMessagePod.Produced by Matt Huxley.Tracklist:Giorgio - From Here to Eternity Munich Machine - Get on the Funk Train Donna Summer - Once Upon a Time Donna Summer - Back in Love Again Meco - Star Wars Theme Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
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1:28:16
LITM Extra - Dylanology pt.1 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the full thing and a hell of a lot more, visit Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod.Timothée Chalamet is currently lighting up the silver screen as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. Have you seen in? We haven’t, but we still thought it high time to dig into some Dylanology. In this episode Tim and Jeremy discuss Bob’s early albums up to 1966, interrogating his intentions, his seriousness, his self-mythology, and whether he invented rock music.Tracklist:Bob Dylan - Song to Woody Bob Dylan - Blowin’ in the Wind Bob Dylan - Chimes of Freedom Bob Dylan - Mr Tambourine Man
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8:47
Eurodisco pt.2
Tim and Jeremy are back on European soil for our second episode on Eurodisco. Examining their record boxes with a post-colonial lens they discuss the aesthetics and politics of race within the genre. We also here about homoeroticism, history-themed tracks, ‘the honky box’, and the life and times of two of the key players in the scene: Jacques Morali and Richie Rome.And of course… Village People.Next time – Moroder!Tracklist:The Ritchie Family - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)The Ritchie Family - African QueensVillage People - San FranciscoBoney M - Ma BakerBoney M - New York City
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1:07:36
LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, Jan '25 [excerpt]
This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the full show and lots more like it, visit Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod.
For the first time in a while Tim and Jeremy dig into their record bags for a selection of tracks they’ve been enjoying recently. We hear the strange deep tones of the Rudra Veena, contemporary virtuosic New Age noodling out of California and some Antipodean sitar funk. Elsewhere in the episode Jeremy buys his first D’n’B white label in a long while, we get a few tributes to some big names of the UK scene, and revisit the mighty WAR.
Tracklist:
Madhuvanti Pal - Bhairavi (Part 1)Turn On the Sunlight - Floating SunsetGlass Beams - Black SandWar - War is Coming! War is Coming!Yannis & The Yaw - Walk Through FireVibration Black Finger - New Wave (The Hustle Bustle Song)Ariwo - El AlacránSami Galbi - Dakchi HaniBig Bud - CloudsurfingCalabra - Mazzara ReturnThe Mighty Zaf & Linkwood - Thinking About Phlash
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9:01
Eurodisco pt.1
In the first episode of 2025 Jeremy and Tim attempted to understand a somewhat maligned genre: Eurodisco. What is it and where did it come from? We hear about the cross-continental currents that gave rise to the form, unpack its aesthetics and spend time with some of its key proponents like the French composer and drummer Cerrone. Tim and Jeremy also take time to unpack the Switched On Classics, play us an infamous Beethoven reinvention, ask what the Enlightenment has to answer for, and compare Eurodisco and another genre that riles people up, prog rock.
Tracklist:
The SalSoul Orchestra - Magic Bird of Fire
The Walter Murphy Band - A Fifth of Beethoven
Kongas - Jungle
Cerrone - Love in C Minor
Love and Kisses - I’ve Found Love (Now That I’ve Found You)
About Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture
Love is the Message: Music, Dance & Counterculture is a new show from Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert, both of them authors, academics, DJs and dance party organisers.
Tune in, Turn on and Get Down to in-depth discussion of the sonic, social and political legacies of radical movements from the 1960s to today. Starting with David Mancuso's NYC Loft parties, we’ll explore the countercultural sounds, scenes and ideas of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
”There’s one big party going on all the time. Sometimes we get to tune into it.” The rest of the time there’s Love Is The Message.
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