Born into a musical dynasty, Claudio Simonetti's career was dramatically launched when his young band Goblin were chosen to produce the soundtrack for Italian horror auteur Dario Argento's latest flick (Argento is pictured right with Simonetti). Profondo Rosso went on to sell three million copies and the band also scored his next soundtrack, the classic Suspiria. After discovering disco, Simonetti made an array of classic records under a variety of names from Easy Going to Capricorn, before returning to movie scoring in the mid-1980s.

Gianni Zuffa (pictured left in in Disco Più in 1980) is the owner of one of the most influential record stores in Italian dance music, Disco Più based in Rimini. The store opened in 1979 and immediately became a focal point for dancers and DJs searching for disco records and obscurities played by DJs such as Daniele Baldelli and Mozart, the creators of the Cosmic/Afro scene. Many of the Cosmic and Afro classics were originally sourced by Zuffa and, even today, along with Modena’s Disco Inn, it’s still one of the key shops in Italy.