Like much of the music that we carry in our record bags, this 12" was discovered through the fucking amazing Cybernetic Broadcasting System. The CBS is an internet radio station run by I-F, who you might know (if you've ever been a cunt with a fauxhawk) from his beef with electrocash godhead DJ Hell, or more likely (if you have any taste) from his beyond classic electro anthem "Space Invaders are Smoking Grass". It broadcasts creamy disco, raw Chicago house, long-forgotten new-wave and all kinds of other electronic oddness 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And for that, I and many other Italodisco fiends can be truly grateful.

Anyway, as is so very often the case, I heard "Dancing on the Berlin Wall" on CBS, creamed my pants, cleared up the mess, and promptly forgot all about it. As is so often the case, I saw the record in a Music Video Exchange a couple of years later, snapped it up, and fell in lust all over again.

"Dancing on the Berlin Wall" is the best Kraftwerk parody you've never heard. Over the barest arpegiattor sequence, our laconic hero narrates last night's excesses in Alexanderplatz. Siren sounds and a deadpan titular chorus ("We're dancing... on the Berlin Wall/ yes, we're dancing... on the Berlin Wall") make this cold war nostalgia of the most fun kind, long before "Goodbye Lenin" made East Berlin look like anything other than the shitty depressing hellhole it most likely was in the early 80s. It makes sense, then, that Rational Youth were not in fact Stadtkinder but Canadian...

Rational Youth- Dancing on the Berlin Wall

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