Mark Radcliffe opened his show last night (yesterday afternoon for me) with a song I last heard half my lifetime ago, but only now know the title: "Disco Rough" by Mathematiques Modernes. It's a fine example of early 80s French electropunk with a relentless single note bass line and fabulously inane lyrics ("Riff raff disco, riff raff disco-o-o!"). It's not the greatest record ever made but worth Googling to see  if you might be able to download it from some industry-hating scofflaw....

Annie Hogan, the DJ at the Leeds Phonographique on Saturday nights, used to play it (and it's good to see she's still at it) so I probably heard it every week for a couple of years, mostly in a drunken and pathetic stupor. A lot of records seeped (or were pounded) into my brain like that during 1981 - 3 and have only become dislodged over the years, but this wins the prize for the longest gap between last hearing and finding out what it was. The previous record (sic) holder was "No GDM" by Gina X, another Hogan favorite, which I'd had in my head for about 20 years without knowing what it was called or who it was by. Is this the last? Could I now make the definitive playlist for those long gone ur-Goth nights?