Having just had a several hour Ableton Live warping party -- including several old Salsoul classics, which I'm sure are hell to beatmatch on vinyl -- I've come to a conclusion about the Black Devil Disco Club '28 After' album: All the tracks are of recent vintage.
Why? The tempo is rock solid all the way through. A computer was involved, or at a minimum, the drummer was playing to a very steady click. I'm not sure a drummer was actually used for the tracks at all, based on the regularity of the beats. I don't know which is more impressive -- a drummer that can play for 6 minutes rock steady down to the millesecond, or how carefully they faked a live drummer. Or, for that matter, how organically the live and machine drumming is put together, if both are used. In other words, it's a tremendously well done fake of the sound of 1982, done recently, which incidentally is some of my favorite Italo.
