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Martin Circus
Martin Circus (LP)
Prelude Records (US) / 1979 / PRL 12167
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm vinyl record
This album has been conceived and produced by Martin Circus at Bechet Studios and Sydney Bechet
The Martin Circus are Musicians:
Gerard Blanc: Lead vocals, guitar, vocoder, percussion
Alain Pewzner: Guitar, vocal, Oberheim synthesizer, percussion
Sylvian Pauchard: Clarinet, Fender piano, Korg, Prophet, vocals. percussion
Rene Guerin: Percussion
Gilles Tinayre: Micro Moog, piano, Prophet, vocals
Serge Haouzi "Zizi": Drums, percussion, syndrums, vocals, timbale
Charles Cohen: Bass, percussion, vocals
Joel "Flangerman" Fagerman: Synthesizer programming
Arrangements, strings and horns: Gilles Tinayre
Design: Ancona Design Atelier
Photography: Bernard Vidal
Leather accessories courtesy of Pleasure Chest Sales Ltd, New York
Side A
1. Disco Circus (14:06)
(G. Blanc, A. Pewzner)
Side B
1. Ite Missa Est (6:27)
(S Pauchard)
2. Before It Gets Dark (7:58)
(E. Courtois, G. Blanc, A. Pewzner)
An innovative and very influential tribal-like Disco track from the French group Martin Circus. Disco Circus has been sampled many times since and continues to be as fresh sounding as it was in 1979.
Two other tracks appear on this American issued album. Ite Missa Est is almost Giorgio Moroder-like and a great followup to the A-side. The album closes out with Before It Gets Dark which uses some of Disco Circus for the backing, but the lyrics are extremely lame and the makes it the only bad track on an otherwise and must have album. In fact it's the English version of Pour m'en aller Plus Loin which only appeared on the non-American pressings of this album.
Other great Martin Circus releases include I've Got A Treat.
Listen to Disco Circus:
Ite Missa Est:
Before It Gets Dark:
Just for fun here is the original French language version of the above which is known as Pour m'en aller Plus Loin:
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Jun 04, 2007 | 3:30 pm"Ite missa est" == "Go, it is the dismissal". Traditional end to the Catholic Mass, whence the name Mass itself came. (per pikiwedia, I'm obviously not Catholic...) The tag I got with this one says "Musique originale du film: ``Les Bidasses en vadrouille'' Remastered by Frans van de Kamp"
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Oct 15, 2006 | 11:03 am
You're right Philippe! I finally got around to checking out Martin Circus on the IMDB website.Very interesting.Thank you!
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Oct 15, 2006 | 12:17 am
ite=?
missa=holy mass
est=is
To be compared to the construction of the phrase: "errare humanum est" (error-human-is)(=mistakes are human)
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May 21, 2006 | 11:12 am
Yes, Disco Circus was originally the soundtrack of a movie starring the Martin Circus themselves. It was a comedy movie showing them during their military service..."Bidasses in ramble" was the title !
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May 09, 2006 | 12:30 pm
Can anyone PLEASE tell me what "Ite Missa Est" means?
I have been wondering for decades!!
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Apr 28, 2006 | 9:35 am
i use to have the album,but now,i
can only remember the song that
everybody danced to is disco circus
and iv,e gotta treat. is there a single
cd for both songs! if so,let me know
with the info and where can i buy
them. holla back. peace.
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Apr 28, 2006 | 4:50 am
HMMMMMMMMMM OH BOY MARTIN CIRCUS,DISCO CIRCUS;THE NAME ALONE EVOKES SOME SERIOUS NIGHTS IN THE PARADISE GARAGE-HOTTT. THE ENERGY THE TRIBALISM THE SHEER ENERGY OF THE PERCUSSION AND BACKING SCATS&VOCALS WHEW! GOT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST ANTI-WALLFLOWER JOINTS MADE.
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Apr 24, 2006 | 11:14 am
"Ite Missa Est" has got to be one of the most sought after/hardcore songs I have ever heard, it is sheer PURE Synthesiser DISCO - THAT WILL FOREVER BE IN STYLE!
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Nov 11, 2005 | 5:29 pm
I have this album and I also have the original version on Vogue records. You might find it interesting that the vogue pressing has a sped up version of "Disco Circus"(it's very noticeable)Also,the cut "Before It Gets Dark" is sung in its original language,French. I can't read French, but the album appears to be the soundtrack to a movie of some sort. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
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Jul 31, 2004 | 6:21 pm
The best track, in my own humble opinion, is not Disco Circus at all, but "Ite Missa Est". To me, it falls in the same category as "War dance" by Kebekelektrik".
And for those who remember the "Marathon" disco in Kijkduin, Den Haag, Netherlands: yes, "Ite Missa Est" was their signature tune.
Disco Circus was definately waaaay ahead of it's time. It was to me, one of the last true disco records, because after 1979, the term disco was becoming a thing of the past, and the term "Dance Music" was beginning to take it's place.
I still have my two original copies of the L.P. You had to have two back then so you can extend that world's famous breakdown in the middle: "DUM, DUM, DUM, DA, DUM, DA, DA, DA, DUM, DUM, DUM, DA, DUM"!!! Although the covers are a little beat up now, the vinyl still plays clear as a bell!!!
This cut can still turn a party out. One of my favorite mixes that I used to do is extend the drums & percussion part, then slide in Raze's: "Break for Love". HEAVENLY!!!