HEY!  Let’s keep the time dial set to 1973, but let’s get out of Jersey and head to the dance floors of Paris with your host Marc Aryan and his floor burner “Liberte”!  This track starts out with what sounds like a space guitar from the future (that may or may not have been sampled/repurposed for the Beastie Boys track “Intergalactic” - another dimension, another dimension…) with a french Jorge Ben lamenting over the top.  Cool, I’m in…wait…what?…halfway through he decideds to kick it into gear (HEY!) and test the treads on your dancing shoes.

Had a hard time finding out too much about Marc and this track (googling Aryan isn’t as helpful as you may think).  Found a decent overview of his life here that talks about his recording studio (Katy) and Label (Markal).  Lots of greats recorded at Katy - Marvin Gaye, James Brown and Diana Ross to name a few.

Artist: Marc Aryan
Album: LA LETTRE//LIBERTE 45
Year: 1973
Label: Markal

I recently picked up a vinyl copy of this classic underground disco album and it’s been blowing my doors off ever since. “Space Bass” is the lead off track and is a fine specimen of funky, cosmic disco equally suitable for the floor or a pot smoke filled living room….whatever you’re into man. Slick were apparently the backing band for Fat Larry…who had some pretty incredible disco feathers in his own cap (maybe I’ll post a Fat Larry track as a follow up). Dig the future-forward lyrics and sick ectoplasmic mono-synth lines. Head and toes folks….head and toes.

ARTIST: Slick
TRACK: Space Bass
YEAR: 1979