Demon Twink Disco: A Halloween Megamix
Check out the full mixtape feature in the pages of WUSSY vol.12 — available now to order.
Demon Twink Disco: A Halloween Megamix
Presented by GLITTER ARCHIVES (@glitter_archives)
The cutie behind Glitter Archives brings you 12 heart-thumping tracks full of diabolical grooves and supernatural songstresses—perfect for the messy bottom in devil horns speaking in tongues on the Halloween dancefloor.
1. Emmie Yokoyama - "Disco Vampirella" (1979)
Let’s kick things off with an “I Feel Love”-indebted Japanese disco track chronicling the exploits of a comic book horror pin-up star. “She is the last of her kind. She is… Vampirella!”
2. Mokka - "Rock Me Dracula" (1979)
Twins Antonella and Nadia released a string of singles in Italy and West Germany during their short recording stint, including this plea to get down and dirty with the Prince of Darkness himself.
3. Monte Kristo - "The Girl of Lucifer" (1985)
French one-hit wonders pull out all of the 80s Eurodisco production stops for this (one-sided?) Satanic love affair.
4. Asha Puthli - "The Devil Is Loose" (1976)
In the hands of genre-obliterator Asha, giving in to one’s darker impulses never sounded so sensual. “I want to be *so* bad!”
5. Giorgio Moroder - "Bring the Prod" (1982)
I couldn’t make a Halloween-themed playlist without including a track off of Moroder’s synth-fueled soundtrack for camp horror classic Cat People, in which Nastassja Kinski turns into a murderous panther after mating (RIP Ed Begley, Jr).
6. Nona Hendryx - "Ghost Love" (1984)
Former LaBelle member Hendryx rails against an absent lover (spoooooky) in this slinky cut off her third solo record. Check out her extensive discography if you haven’t yet - gems abound!
7. Claudio Simonetti - "Demon" (1985)
“In the Hall of the Mountain King”-sampling synth soundtrack cut for the Italian horror flick “Demons,” a film which explored the scariest scenario of all: attending a film screening that you had not heavily researched in advance.
8. Easy Going - "Fear" (1979)
Easy Going, a well-coiffed Italian trio named after a Roman gay club, helped usher in the Italodisco era with this pulsating, vocoder-heavy horror-tinged track.
9. Gina X Performance - "Horror Vacui" (1981)
West German synthwave provocateurs stare into the abyss in this propulsive and atmospheric track from their third album, Voyeur.
10. Cherries - "Disco Devil" (1978)
All handclaps, squiggly basslines, and protestations of love for the prototypical bad boy, this short-lived German trio combined the teen rebellion aesthetic of 60s girl groups like the Shangri-Las and late-era disco (with a Halloween-ready twist).
11. Helen - "Witch - Vocal" (1983)
Prolific session singer Elena Ferretti provides the vocals for this 7-minute early Italodisco odyssey, a deceptively bubbly tale of being “slain by magical love.”
12. Norma Jean Wright - "Sorcerer" (1978)
Sumptuous classic disco from the former vocalist of Chic. Good luck getting the hook (or bongos) out of your head.
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Glitter Archives is a queer(ish) video archive run by NYC-based curator Travis Carr that celebrates and unearths the outrageous, the decadent, and the rhinestoned of queerdom yesteryear and those we idolize. He also hosts a weekly online radio show of 70s and 80s disco, hi-nrg, and global pop for KPISS.FM.