Baby's Gang - Challenger

The space shuttle Challenger blew the fuck up in 1986. One of the cosmonauts on board was from my neighborhood and had gone to college with my teacher. Our entire second grade class watched on the television as the Challenger went ka-blooey. All of the teachers cried.

Before all that business the Challenger was the inspiration for one of my favorite Italo Disco records. This is it. The title track and the legendary party banger Happy Song are without a doubt classics. Justice had clearly been listening to this shit on repeat when they wrote DANCE and who could blame them? Check out the whole LP below. By the way the above video is priceless.

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Pluton and Humanoids

I don't really know anything about this crucial italo-disco jammer except that it rules and gives me glorious party flashbacks to my time in Berlin and that it needs to be on any vocoder themed mixtape you might consider making. Ok, I know a little more than that. It came out in 1981 and the song is called "World Invaders."

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