Kebekelektrik - Magic Fly (Tom Moulton Mix)

KEBEKELEKTRIK is a studio session when Montreal producer Pat Deserio called Gino Soccio (born September 9, 1955) a Canadian disco record producer and songwriter based in Montreal and asked if he would play keyboards and help compose for the Kébekélektrik album. Prior to this, Soccio was working as a local session musician. Deserio asked Soccio to make a disco version of Ravel&"Bolero," which he wanted to release with filler tracks under the fictitious act name Kébekélektrik, a Kraftwerk-influenced misspelling of "Quebec Electric." In reality, Soccio played every note. "It was very labor-intensive," Soccio later said, "but at the same time, I had free rein of the entire studio, which had never happened [before]. It was a really great learning experience. I had never done disco. As you&going along doing it, you fall right in love with it." The Kébekélektrik sessions produced his B-side composition "War Dance," described by Wax Poetics&Jered Stuffco as "an orgy of analog squirts and electronic flourishes that Soccio wrote and recorded on the spot, warts and all." The four-song LP Kébekélektrik was remixed by Tom Moulton and released in the U.S. on Salsoul in 1978. The Kébekélektrik album helped to launch Soccio&career. In Canada, the Kébekélektrik song "Magic Fly" reached number 69 on the pop charts, October 8, 1977. It reached on the Billboard disco chart, released on the TK Disco label before the album. "War Dance" subsequently became a hit on U.S. dance floors, a song Soccio...