D. I. Go Pop (studio album) by Disco Inferno

From Repo 04/05/2025 00:50

Peanut Butter & Banana

My Apple Music player has a mind of its own. It thinks it reigns predominant over the music apps on my Apple iBook. So sometimes, when I’m listening to an album on spotify AND also downloading some mp3s in the background, it will just start playing too. And there’s this blending of the two sounds. The two tracks bleeding into each other as they pour forth my speakers in my living room. Most of the time it sounds like utter crap. Total noise. And I quickly notice & rectify it by pausing Apple player. BUT every now & then, it just sounds like the coolest thing I’ve heard. Like the aural equivalent of peanut butter and banana. All those different tastes in my mouth. Different yet compatible. Like I know it’s two sources, but it just works.

And that’s Disco Inferno’s DI Goes Pop. It’s hard for me to believe that these tracks weren’t conjured together by some AI computer in which you give it TWO different band prompts.

Anyways, I hear a lot of stuff in these tracks. A lot of different bands. But the three that really stand out for me the most are Joy Division, The Duritti Column and The Swell Maps. And I guess some English electronica band. Either The Orb or Orbital. Not sure which. Yet, D.I. Goes Pop sounds nothing like those bands really.

One of those few albums that sounds like nothing else either before or since.