Now here we have an album that’s so sheerly demented, it’s a work of unrelenting beauty. Meet StopDiscoMafia, or what happens when the bassist of a mandolin orchestra (Ronald Gonko of Kapajkos and Cobra Killer) teams up with tranny songstress Nora Below (who has an album out on Bpitch Control) and puts an album out on Proptronix with Kompakt Distribution.

An intriguing mélange of everything from punk to techno to classical to pop to The Crying Game, the album really shouldn’t be compared to anything else. Because how many quality collections of dance tracks have you found that feature not only the nouveau sounds of Russian cartoon music but also the croons of a man whose voice can easily squash the best lady lounge singer out there? Come on now. And if you get past the quick turns, dizzying bleeps and overall camp, you hear some serious skill behind the album’s lunatic cover. You Don’t Wanna Know is giddy, animated, queer, dark disco madness. Of the highest order.

TRACKLISTING
Total Desaster
Bodies (feat. Nora Below)
Shithead
A Quarrel (feat. Nora Below)
Washhour
Dayfilter
The Day After
Mad Mind (feat. Nora Below)
Crimescene
Crunchbone
Eastern Parkway
Freakshow
Absent
Another Stoneage
Czyclopic (feat. Nora Below)
Missing Vegas