Various Artists Disco 2000

Compiler/Editor: Sarah Champion

Label: Boka

Cat no: boka0002

Formats: CD with pop-up sleeve, limited edition triple vinyl

Release date: 1998

This was the soundtrack to Disco 2000, a fiction anthology set in the last hours of 1999. The sci-fi - voodoo - chemical stories were complemented by strange and twisted tunes that fused f**ked up funk, hip hop and big beat with disco and spacey drum 'n' bass.

It captured the apocalyptic vibe of electronic music at the end of the twentieth century. A pre-millennial backing track for hedonism, insanity, religious mania, future technology, bombing runs, suicide cults, media conspiracy, time travel and chemical excess. Celebrate the mutant eclectism of the last days...

Tracklisting

Blame - Sphere

Plug - High on the Vine

Witchman - Metal Beatbox

Coldcut - Atomic Moog 2000 (Bullet Train)

u-Ziq - Millennium Hand and Shrimp

2K (aka KLF) - Fuck the Millennium

Jimi Tenor - Year of the Apocalypse

Alabama 3 - Disco 2029 (I've Seen the Future and it Hurts)

Conemelt - Dust Covered Discotech

Glamorous Hooligan - Disco Heist (The Theme From Disco 2000)

Diskohead Kollective - I'm a Policeman (Label Whore's Barely Legal Mix)

Bentley Rhythm Ace - Let There Be Flutes (alt.mix)

Ken Ishii - Actio Surrealisimo

Disco 2000's pop-out handgrenade sleeve - cool or what?!

Facts

*Bill Drummond of the KLF both wrote a story in the anthology and contributed an exclusive uncensored version of 2K's Fuck the Millennium'.

*Glamorous Hooligan is the alter ego of Dean Cavanagh who wrote for the Disco Biscuits collection

*Plug's 'High on the Vine' was inspired specifically by the Poppy Z Brite tale, while other tracks specifically recorded for this compilation included Alabama 3 'Disco 2029', Conemelt's 'Dust Covered Discotheque', Witchman 'Metal Beatbox', Blame 'Sphere' and U-ziq 'Millennium Hand & Shrimp'.

*Grant Morrison contributed 'I'm a Policeman' to the book as well as a track in collaboration with Glasgow's Soma under the moniker Diskohead Kollective

The Book

An anthology of end-of-the-millennium fiction, capturing the atmosphere of the times. Writers such as Douglas Coupland, Nicholas Blincoe, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson and Poppy Z. Brite have contributed exclusive stories more...

Press

"Electronica elite follow millennial brief" - Select