I'm not sure why this chugging upbeat disco song is called Palace Palace. I'll admit that the lyrics are profoundly vacuous and the congas verge on irksome but as I was recording this track into my compu-tron my ears assured my brain it was a worthy selection. The vocoder here, which is a sound that wasn't overused in the disco years, works almost as well as it does in Easy Going's Baby I Love You (a future post of mine).

At first, outside of Who's Who, who had just a handful of disco tunes culled into an album at the end end of the 70's, I only found the producer's name connected to a Moog hits comp in '72 called Music For Pleasure on a track entitled Listening To Mozart (which I'm guessing was a Moog version of Mozart W. Carlos style). That find in fact added some credibility to Daniel Bangalter...I'd love a blog of cheeky Moog covers. Then, upon further investigation, I discovered that Daniel Bangalter is merely the real name of Daniel Vangarde, who not only produced a slew of European disco hits but fathered Thomas Bangalter, one half of the duo Daft Punk. The vocoder makes more sense all of a sudden and takes on a seminal role. Can we thank (or blame) Daniel and this track for the robots that carry the torch of modern dance music these days?