Zyron aka Johan Åstrand is a DJ, producer and crate digging record collector from the small Swedish village of Karlsborg. If you like your disco deep and cosmic with layers of funk it’s likely you have stumbled upon his excellent YouTube channel. Under the 0x51d handle Johan has been busy quietly uploading hundreds of records from his vast collection and has garnered a bit of a following in the YouTube disco community.
Johan began DJing in 1988 but soon grew jaded with the trappings of operating as a commercial DJ and had had enough with the ‘crappy euro-house and chart music’ people expected him to play. Thankfully in 2004 he returned to buying, listening to and spinning records he loved. This has resulted in a very popular show on online radio station Interstate FM as well as producing his own music which he classifies as ‘mainly experimental electronica and moody house’.
Eclectic in his selections, when trying to describe his sound Johan refers to it as ‘Spaced-out cosmic post-punk balearic kraut funk italo disco-not-disco deep dubby electro house wave’. Intergalactic Funky Discotheque is no exception:
Zyron – Intergalactic Funky Discotheque
Tracklist:
- Morgan Geist – Skyblue Pink
- Brian Briggs – Aeo
- Tiago – Mango
- Mudd & Ahmed Fakroun – Drago (Mudd’s Teriwala Mix)
- Steve Bender – The Final Thing
- Flowers and Sea Creatures – At Night (dub)
- Yse Saint Laur’ant – Abah Dabah Dis
- LTJ – Amazing Rhythm
- Robotwerke – Be A Man You Frog
- Cristal – La Nuit Pour Nous
- Soft Rocks – The Crazy Frog
- MFA Kera – Anastasia
- Destroyers – ‘Lectric Love (Lucci Capri edit)
- Diggy Tal & The Numbers – If It’s Love That You Want
- Jacky Chalard – Made In America
- Barry Marshall & His Orchestra – 2001 Odyssey De L’Espace
- Jeff Wayne – The Eve Of The War (ending)
