italo-disco
Mick Wills – Les Yeux Orange #008
This 3hours marathon mix from Mick is the recording of his set at The Bleep43 party played in february at the Waiting Room London.
Vercetti Technicolor – Olympic Sequences EP [HM010]
HotMix presents Vercetti Technicolor, obscure producer from Greece . Amazing EP with Italo Disco movie influences.
Rory Phillips – Mixed Fortunes #4 [MIXEDFORTUNES004]
Rory Phillips has cooked up another installment of the Mixed Fortune series, this time with “Tunnel Vision”, its thick, arpeggiated bassline, disco flex and 80s pop touches making it a truly beautiful boogie-slanted electro monster. There’s a special surprise too: the man goes head to head with Night Slugs man L-Vis 1990 for “Silicon Island”, a house chugger with some serious 80s vibes in there – Korg Polys all round!
Amin-Peck – Essential Trax [DDR003]
Like most 80s electronic bands, Amin-Peck walked a fine line between disco and minimal wave throughout the course of the early 1980s, oftentimes incorporating shameless pop melodies and avant-garde leanings. Amin-Peck were an Italian band lead by Giorgio Fioroni (aka George Fyron, arrangements, production, vocals) with Leonard Parker (arrangments, keyboards) and Max Marne (production). Incredible but true, Amin-Peck started as ‘hard rock’ guitar band in the 70’s…there are some tracks also on You Tube before they became one of the best examples of Italo disco. Well, finally an album that contains their best tracks for your ‘Italo party’ at home! If you like “Italo disco” or “minimal synth” this record it will be a ‘must’!
DJ soFa – Cosmic Rocket Groove Channel Nr.7 12.03.2013
Umberto – Confrontations [NNF270LP]
Halloween is early this year……fantasy soundtracking returns with his third official full-length, two years after the badass psychodrama of Prophecy of the Black Widow. What instantly distinguishes this new album from the previous two is its ominous, slow-burn compositional model, building its evil temple brick by brick, basking in the tension of each new chiming, Carpenteresque synth line or monkish doom Om for multiple measures before stirring the next substance into the cauldron. This elegant sense of patience gives the tracks a more oozing, operatic aura; these confrontations aren’t hostile showdowns in the woods but the creeping dread of alien-nation body snatchers infiltrating the populace. Death comes slipping.
Tranzistors – Zanadu Super Sound Single [UFO012]
New Detroit group Tranzistors pay tribute to Warhol, Studio 54, and Xanadu on their new single “Zanadu.” Three versions remixed by night club luminaries: San Serac (Environ), 100 Limosines (Detroit), and Jackie O’Body’s School of Dance (aka Samuel Consiglio, ex-Adult + Tamion 12″ Inch). Take off your shirts and start dancin’.
Antoni Maiovvi – Delta City [CYBERDANCE008]
The inherent romanticism of Italo Disco has always lent the genre a more esoteric edge, and with this Cyber Dance release, Antoni Maiovvi seems intent on creating a narrative that cannot be contained by a simple dance track. This is not to say that both “Impulse” and “Requiem for Clarence Boddiker” are not suited to club play. They both pound down with that staccato urgency, and equally rise and fall through moments of intensity and serenity. It’s just that, at 12 and 11 minutes respectively, both sides of this record have ample room in which to tell a more involved story.
Tony Carey – Explorer And Yellow Power [MR016]
Medical Records presents the groundbreaking electronic classic “Explorer” and its sister LP “Yellow Power” by Tony Carey. (a keyboard whiz from California) In the mid-late 1970’s, he moved to Germany and began working in Peter Hauke’s studio. Here a reissue of the highly-sought after “Explorer” LP along with “Yellow Power” as a 2LP package. Rumor has it that “Explorer” was intended to be demos for the “Yellow Power”. Eventually both of these brilliant LPs were released on X Records in 1982. “Explorer” is the more stripped down almost proto-techno meets synthed out Italo disco while “Yellow Power” has a more polished, well-rounded and produced sound with a different array of instrumentation and alteration in mood. The tracks on “Yellow Power” seem to convey a futuristic sci-fi Japanese motif which possibly explains the beautiful airbrushed samurai warrior on the original cover. Some tracks have sparse vocal samples such as on the lovely “Peking Duck” and “Queen of Scots”.
Alessandro Forte – The Hunger EP [IT003]
The Hunger (1983) directed by the recently deceased Tony Scott and starring David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve has been the inspiration that Alek has served to make this album. On side A, I Love You Forever, a theme to the purest style Italo where rhythms coalesce with the power of the vocoder and melodies you trap to melt in the bass line. In this same face remixes of high-level made by two of the producers who admire and which stands out the Synth Alien vocoders or the incredible Kid Machine solo, and how they have adapted the original song to your own style. On the b-side, far more serious, in which the concept of the album is more evident, presents three tracks filled with impossible arpeggios, analog warmth and layers of melodies full of feelings in which Alek Stark demonstrates his Italo disco love.
Dust – Past Future [LLI003]
Hot release from this New York Low Life Inc label. Dust drops two killer Italo disco tracks named Past Future and Dark Pleasure. As bonus a cover version of Phuture’s Your Only Friend. ‘Past Future’, a dark tale of esoteric disco disquietude starring the cosmic diva Angela Chambers on Side A and Seoul/Brooklyn based Greem Jellyfish with a cover of Phuture’s ‘Your Only Friend’ on the flip!
VA – EP No.1 [RL001]
The first release on Red Laser Records, a new label releasing fine italo, electro, boogie & house. . EP1 features four Mancunian producers & a Danish Italo legend. Kid Machine collaborates with Flemming Dalum, together they concoct a hefty 80’s horror-esque electronic monster. Label head Il Bosco brings an addictive boogie disco track to life, expertly cutting insistent breaks. Starion goes deep with a nonstop dancefloor workout and some serious synth action whilst Ste Spandex covers Royalle Delite’s 80’s electro soul classic ‘Freak For You’, pitching up the original and adding extra bounce to the proceedings.
Mario Saffini – Il Vento Che Soffia l’Acqua
Klein & MBO – The MBO Theme [DMD609]
Spectacular Italo disco 12” featuring two superslick synth-groovers from the mighty Klein & MBO, aka Mario Boncaldo and Tony Carrasco, whose genre-bending electro-Italo proto-house sound hit big on both the NY disco and Chicago house scenes of the early 80s. Side A slides in with the deeply electro ‘MBO Theme’ whose killer blend of disco-tinged techno beats, quirky 80s robotic rap-style lyrics and catchy guitar licks. Flip over and you are treated to the the aptly named ‘Wonderful’. First we have the fantastic eight-minute disco-dub version featuring the gorgeous sweet vocals of Rosanna Casale followed by the hugely in-demand instrumental version. Sounding almost like a live mix, this tech-heavy beauty punches out synths and drum machine effects that are way ahead of their time! Minimal Italo production at its best.
Mick Wills – Pinkman Podcast 01
Tevo Howard – Soundwall Podcast #127
Tevo Howard @ Tripstream 09.11.2012
Baz Reznik – Halloween Dixo Mix
Rory Phillips – Mixed Fortunes Volume 1 [MIXEDFORTUNES001]
Previously only available as part of his subscription 12” series ‘Mixed Fortunes’, these two 12”s heralds the first original material from Rory Phillips, following a 7 year run of well received remixes for the indie and dance elite. Named to reflect the stylistic range of the series, Mixed Fortunes channels the same spirit of musical adventure heard in both Phillips’s remix work and in his genre-hopping DJ sets, with tracks both by Phillips alone in his well stocked analogue studio as well as some undertaken with a range of top secret collaborators.
The Hipodrome Of Music 