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seedarklyxeroWelcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
For the last of our "May Riders" theme, I regret to say I picked yet ANOTHER cover that does not have an direct embeddable source I could share... so I planned to feature a runner-up... but it turns out that was only a remix. So, since I found that out so late in my draft, I'm going to take an extreme measure for you to to get to hear the actual cover I wanted to spotlight, and share an entire podcast where it can be found! (Which isn't necessarily a bad thing since it's probably a podcast you should be listening to anyway.) This EBM cover comes to us from an era of action television, when "a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, [and] the powerless" would take on "a world of criminals who operate above the law" with his talking robot car!:
Stoppenberg – Knight Rider Theme (Stu Phillips)
Knight Rider was a campy television series that ran for 4 seasons between 1982 to 1986. The show was created and produced by Glen A Larson, who also had a hand in such classics as Battlestar Galactica, B. J. and the Bear, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Magnum, P.I., The Fall Guy, Manimal, and Automan. Knight Rider starred David Hasselhoff as a police detective named Michael Long who joined a task force called F.L.A.G. (Foundation for Law and Government) after a near-fatal injury and facelift forced him to take on a new identity as Micheal Knight. F.L.A.G. recruited him as an operative who would take on missions outside the typical purview of law enforcement, armed with an advanced nigh-indestructible computerized Pontiac Firebird Trans Am installed with numerous gadgets and an on-board talking artificial intelligence named K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand).
Larson worked with composer Stu Phillips to write the theme. Phillips has said that part of his inspiration for this synthwave forerunner came from an 18th century classic piece by French composer Léo Delibes titled Marche Et Cortège De Bacchus Act III - No. 14 (Walking And Procession Of Bacchus) from the ballet, Sylvia.
The show made Hasslehoff a household name and the show's theme is one of the most memorable from that time for years to come.
Several covers and remixes have turned up over the years. The theme and several clips of Michael Knight's and K.I.T.T.'s voices have been sampled by a variety of songs as well.
Stoppenberg, an EDM offshoot project from Jan Loamfield of Noisuf-X, released their first album Assault in March 2016. Halfway through the album, the familiar sound of K.I.T.T. 's digital front mounted LED scanner bar signals the opening beats of Loamfield's highly dancable version of the theme song.
Set your Cruise Mode to "Super Pursuit" and "Turbo Boost" yourself to Timestamp 44:30 of Communion After Dark's 8 year anniversary podcast to give it a listen!
The Cover: [Time Stamp: 44:31 - 47:33]
The Original:
Next week:
June brings us to Pride month. I am honestly not sure what covers I'll feature with respect to the celebration, but, especially given recent headlines, there is no way I'd do anything else. If you have any specific suggestions let me know (I'm ALWAYS hunting for an impressive goth or industrial cover of Erasure, so please let me know if you've found one I might not have!)
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome! You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.
(And if, after 4 years and 213 weekly entries, you find this blog of any value, please click over to my profile and find out how you can leave us a tip if you like...)
Thanks for reading and keep dancing in darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
May 19 - Deathline International– Rawhide (Frankie Laine)
May 12 - Covenant – A Rider On A White Horse (Lee Hazelwood)
May 05 - The Death Riders – Mexican Radio (Wall Of Voodoo)
Apr 28 - Caustic – The Humpty Dance (Digital Underground)
Apr 21 - Klaus Nomi – Ding Dong (The Witch Is Dead) (The Munchkins)
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
For the last of our "May Riders" theme, I regret to say I picked yet ANOTHER cover that does not have an direct embeddable source I could share... so I planned to feature a runner-up... but it turns out that was only a remix. So, since I found that out so late in my draft, I'm going to take an extreme measure for you to to get to hear the actual cover I wanted to spotlight, and share an entire podcast where it can be found! (Which isn't necessarily a bad thing since it's probably a podcast you should be listening to anyway.) This EBM cover comes to us from an era of action television, when "a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, [and] the powerless" would take on "a world of criminals who operate above the law" with his talking robot car!:
Stoppenberg – Knight Rider Theme (Stu Phillips)
Knight Rider was a campy television series that ran for 4 seasons between 1982 to 1986. The show was created and produced by Glen A Larson, who also had a hand in such classics as Battlestar Galactica, B. J. and the Bear, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Magnum, P.I., The Fall Guy, Manimal, and Automan. Knight Rider starred David Hasselhoff as a police detective named Michael Long who joined a task force called F.L.A.G. (Foundation for Law and Government) after a near-fatal injury and facelift forced him to take on a new identity as Micheal Knight. F.L.A.G. recruited him as an operative who would take on missions outside the typical purview of law enforcement, armed with an advanced nigh-indestructible computerized Pontiac Firebird Trans Am installed with numerous gadgets and an on-board talking artificial intelligence named K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand).
Larson worked with composer Stu Phillips to write the theme. Phillips has said that part of his inspiration for this synthwave forerunner came from an 18th century classic piece by French composer Léo Delibes titled Marche Et Cortège De Bacchus Act III - No. 14 (Walking And Procession Of Bacchus) from the ballet, Sylvia.
The show made Hasslehoff a household name and the show's theme is one of the most memorable from that time for years to come.
Several covers and remixes have turned up over the years. The theme and several clips of Michael Knight's and K.I.T.T.'s voices have been sampled by a variety of songs as well.
Stoppenberg, an EDM offshoot project from Jan Loamfield of Noisuf-X, released their first album Assault in March 2016. Halfway through the album, the familiar sound of K.I.T.T. 's digital front mounted LED scanner bar signals the opening beats of Loamfield's highly dancable version of the theme song.
Set your Cruise Mode to "Super Pursuit" and "Turbo Boost" yourself to Timestamp 44:30 of Communion After Dark's 8 year anniversary podcast to give it a listen!
The Cover: [Time Stamp: 44:31 - 47:33]
The Original:
Next week:
June brings us to Pride month. I am honestly not sure what covers I'll feature with respect to the celebration, but, especially given recent headlines, there is no way I'd do anything else. If you have any specific suggestions let me know (I'm ALWAYS hunting for an impressive goth or industrial cover of Erasure, so please let me know if you've found one I might not have!)
Feel free to tell me what you think about today's cover! Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome! You do NOT need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but all comments are screened for spam prevention.
(And if, after 4 years and 213 weekly entries, you find this blog of any value, please click over to my profile and find out how you can leave us a tip if you like...)
Thanks for reading and keep dancing in darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
May 19 - Deathline International– Rawhide (Frankie Laine)
May 12 - Covenant – A Rider On A White Horse (Lee Hazelwood)
May 05 - The Death Riders – Mexican Radio (Wall Of Voodoo)
Apr 28 - Caustic – The Humpty Dance (Digital Underground)
Apr 21 - Klaus Nomi – Ding Dong (The Witch Is Dead) (The Munchkins)
. Directory of All Previous DisCOVERies .