It just sounded incredible to us to use Western electric pop, but with Urdu lyrics.

You know, knowing and identifying with the fact that we are Pakistani-British kids.

For us, this was almost like bringing together both worlds in a creative sense.

In the early 1980s, London was the center of the world, at least as far as New Wave was concerned.

200 kilometers away, in Birmingham, 15-year-old Nermine Niazzi and her older brother of Fosselmos Lay were in love with New Wave.

And like a lot of British teenagers at that time, they dreamed of making a record.

I'm Jessica Hopper.

And from KCRW, this is Lost Notes.

This week, a story of two siblings and a lost record.

I'm Arsia Fatima Ha, and I'm an artist, DJ, and the founder of Diskostan.

Disco's a project exploring cultural production from South and West Asia, North Africa.

I happened to stumble across this record in a shop in New York on the Lower East Side.

What caught your eye about it?

The title. The title was the first thing that jumped out at me.

Disco Se Age, which translates roughly to Beyond Disco.

And then just the cover.

It's this image of a woman, you know, she's got this fabulous 80s mullet, super sci-fi white blazer.

And she's suspended in this halo with all of these lights that kind of look like disco lights.

I knew, like, just looking at it, that it was going to be this absolute gem.

This is Beyond Disco from Arcia Fatima Hawk.

Stick around.

In the summer of 1984, the UK singles charts were dominated by Wham, Cindy Lopper, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

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