It's no surprise that space disco producers like Norway's Todd Terje or UK duo Idjut Boys are concocting "re-edits" of some of the same disco staples the original DJs played way back when. Of course, eclecticism was one of the founding principles of disco: DJs like Francis Grasso and Larry Levan didn't just play one kind of music, but created wildly diverse sets that took club patrons on more fantastic trips than any single record could. In one sense, it's very retro, but in another, it's perfectly contemporary, like listening to the record collection of your favorite hipster, the one who isn't afraid to show she loves old Mike Oldfield records just as much as Giorgio Moroder or Neu!. Certainly, synthesizers are huge here, playing not only melodies and perpetually motive bass lines, but shimmering arpeggios and layers of silky, ambient noise. In fact, all of it does share a love of electronics, so perhaps the DJs and producers making new, galactic tracks are homing in on something electronic. Electro, fusion, prog, krautrock: Somehow, all of this exists in the same continuum of space music. This is dance music informed not only by 30 years of disco records, but by every other record out there as well: There is no agenda to fit them all in, but at the same time, there is no rule that says you can only play one kind of music. Space disco!.or cosmic house, or the way out, eclectic sounds of DJs who don't mind throwing in the odd Can track or jazz-funk remix in the middle of their set.
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