italo-disco
Mick Wills @ Golden Pudel (Hamburg, DE) 21.01.2012
Takeshi Kouzuki – Estimulo Show 10.03.2012
Grand Prix – Mach 1 [SF67987]
Reissue for this super-rare space funk album from 1983, one of the holy grails of the Cosmic scene. Extremely expensive and hard-to-find in the original, this LP was created by legendary French producers Jean-Pierre Massiera and Bernard Torelli (listed here as Areisam and Bernie) and released on French label Savoir Faire. It is a superb example of the duos innovative electronic disco madness, always pushing boundaries while remaining supremely funky. Stand-outtracks are the Italo classic “Challenger” – heady synths, tough bass and astronaut vocals combine in a strange space odyssey, “Cruisin”, a superb electro-boogie style cut with a hypnotic driving bassline, and the fantastic “On The Border”, a tight funky percussive workout whipped by wild space-rock guitars.
VA – Let’s Go Into Space… [369.006]
Private Records releases a compilation of scarce and sought after tracks which previously have only been released on 7” somewhere in the late 70’s and early 80’s. A cosmic journey into early techno and modern club music prototypes.
Mick Wills – Boom Bar Podcast #21
David Vunk @ Intergalactic.FM 01.02.2012
Flemming Dalum – Immortal Flight Of The 80’s
Flemming Dalum – IntergalacticFM 2011 mix
Hysteric – Life Is Cheap [BAP003]
Bordello A Parigi presents some superb European floor filler disco obscurities; edited by the greatest italo disco connaisseur from Down Under: Hysteric.
D. Carred – I Want To Know The World [BAP002]
After 25 years Bordello A Parigi offers you these mid-80’s italo-disco-bangers on vinyl again. Three old killer releases transformed in one reissue. The three course menu contains the two 1985 hard hittin’ D. Carred obscurities and continues with this spicey hidden gem ‘I’ll Go Where I Like To Go’ from Rambles, which was D. Carred’s first production on vinyl in 1984. On top of this sunny mountain of an Italian pie you’ll get two extra remixes of ‘You’ll Be A Winner’ by the Danish crème de la crème of italo: Flemming Dalum and Mike Salta. Comes with beautiful picture cover and illustrated inner sleeves.
Francisco – Disco Wizard [SLOMO007]
A shiny picture disco for Slow Motion Records release number 7 – Disco Wizard by Francisco from Jolly Music. Beamed from distant satellites via 1983 and picked up by a crack team of Berlin based Italian disco commandoes, the Disco Wizard brings to mind Space, the tougher end of pre-84 Italo, guys with beards and grace Jones and Amanda Leat dancing the night away. A nagging baseline propels the track forward with alternating male and female vocals that coo and tease’. On the flip side the dub mix strips away most of the vocals and injects some serious strut into the beats. The rougher, tougher cousin of the original to send the boys and girls wild with cosmic desire.
Mick Wills @ Easy Bar (St. Petersburg) 29.06.2011
Mick Wills @ Alchemy (Vicious Club, Rome) 22.10.2011 (HNY132)
Meschi & The Textbook Lover @ Lunar Disko, The Sweeney Mongrel (Dublin) 23.09.2011
Baz Reznik @ Futura, PalomaBar (Berlin) 06.08.2011
Kenny Hanlon – Storm Approaching Mix
Mark Du Mosch – Concepto Radio MIX #46
Intergalactic Gary @ Dirtytalk, Timbuk2 22.07.2011
Fred Ventura – The Years [IDIB030]
Italians Do It Better release four Fred Ventura classic tracks. Side One The Years (Go By) (1984), The Years (Instrumental) (1984), Side Two You Want Me (1986), Don’t Give Up (1987 ).
The Hipodrome Of Music 