Resident Advisor 118: Heartbreak

Heartbreak turn in an hour-plus mix of Italo, electro and more on this week's RA podcast.We'd call it cheesy, but then Ali Renault and Sebastian Muravchik, the duo behind Heartbreak, might just come and beat us up. Nonetheless, Heartbreak's debut album is a compendium of Italo disco and disco disco sounds and vocals that celebrates a style of music still all too often derided for its vapidity. Like much of the music that appears on their RA podcast, though, Hearbreak's album is unrelentingly sincere, full of the same sorts of emotions that any pop music tries to get across: Love, regret, why robots have feelings too. However you feel about the perceived cheesiness is your problem: These guys certainly don't have time for your issues with synthetic horns and less-than-perfect vocalists. Instead, they're moving on to showcase tracks from their solo projects on Dissident ("Lacrimal," "Tropical Warrior") or old school techno and house. As Muravchik writes in the answers below, this is one group that thinks "music has a strong impact on our society, and if we manage to encourage people to go deeper and try to understand the true power of music, then a lot of other positive things will ensue." Amen.

Heartbreak - We're Back - Lex Records
(Extract from Dario Argento's Tenebre overlayed)
The Why Not - Comet 059 - Max Music
X-Ray Connection - Get Ready - Break Records
Blind Date - Your Heart Keeps Burning - Ariola
Harold Faltermeyer - Shoot Out - MCA Records
Bochum Welt - Saint (Heinrich Mueller - Z Version) - Rephlex
(Extract from John Carpenter's The Fog)
Ali Renault - Lacrimal - Dissident
Xenon - Xenon Galaxy - Radius
Muravchix - Tropical Warrior - Dissident
Junior Rafael Presents Darkroom Trax - Drug Me - Mighty Robot
Steve Pointdexter - Whiplash - Muzique Records
Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - Jack the Bass - Trax / Heartbreak - Give Me Action - Lex
Japanese Telecom - Kubi - Intuit-Solar
Drexciya - Aquatic Beta Particles - Rephlex / Heartbreak - Robot's Got the Feeling - Lex
Rude 66 - As (Nicolas Courtin Remix) - Cr?me Organization
Queen Samantha - Take a Chance - T.K. Disco / Heartbreak - Akin to Dancing - Lex
Alex Valentini - Beautiful Life (Flemming Dalum Edit) - Moustache
Vicio Latino - Que Me Pasa, Que Me Pasa? - Epic
(Extract from John Carpenter's Dark Star)

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