Italo-disco [Archive]

ladyboygrimsby

08-22-2003, 11:42 AM

Anyone got any recommendations? I've been compiling a CD-R this morning of Italo stuff. This is what's on there so far: Gaz Nevada - Secret Agent Man Mel Sheppard - Can I Take You Home Barbara York - Have A Ball Jago - I'm Going To Go Kasso - Walkman Doctor's Cat - Feel The Drive Kasso - Brazilian Dancer Baricentro - Tittle Tattle Mellrose - Don't Want To Start Again Electra - Feels Good

Jolyon

08-22-2003, 12:14 PM

A few more... Gaz Nevada - I C Love Affair Massimo Barsotti DJ - Whole Lotta Love (Instrumental) Mr Flagio - Take A Chance Peter Richard - Walking In The Neon Electric Mind - Zwei Capricorn - I Need Love (Instrumental) Gaucho - Dance Forever My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (instrumental)

Sean P

08-22-2003, 02:19 PM

Mel Sheppard's not Italian, surely? I thought the record was from Brooklyn.

Sean P

08-22-2003, 02:25 PM

As you're Kassoed up, Bill, why not have 'Key West' & 'Kasso' by them too? How's about Fascination 'Out To Get You' (good boogie from '84) 5 Sinners 'Magic' Koxo 'Srep By Step' which we put on the last 'Disco Spectrum', which is good fun. Spence 'Get It On' (minor club hit from '83, kinda corny but cool.)

ladyboygrimsby

08-22-2003, 02:51 PM

Mel Sheppard's not Italian, surely? I thought the record was from Brooklyn. Mmm, dunno for sure. I always thought it came out on Mr Disco in Italy first and then was licensed to TSOB later. But I could be wrong.

Jolyon

08-22-2003, 03:36 PM

Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk/MBO Theme Harry Thuman - Underwater Charlie - Spacerwoman Starlite - Dance To The Beat

Sean P

08-22-2003, 04:33 PM

K.I.D. 'Hupendi Muziki Wangu' Armed Gang 'Love Shot'

ladyboygrimsby

08-22-2003, 05:40 PM

K.I.D. 'Hupendi Muziki Wangu' Armed Gang 'Love Shot' That K.I.D.'s awesome (and been sampled on more than one house tune, too). I really like Don't Stop by the same band, though it's a bit more cheesy than Hupendi. OK, it's a lot more cheesy. ;)

Sean P

08-22-2003, 07:35 PM

That K.I.D.'s awesome (and been sampled on more than one house tune, too). I really like Don't Stop by the same band, though it's a bit more cheesy than Hupendi. OK, it's a lot more cheesy. ;) Awesome but cheesy is a strange combination but the right one, in this case. 'Number One' by them was quite big here, that was OK as well, though 'Hupendi...' was a little unusual. Ago's 'You Make Me Do It' was a good Italian boogie track with an iffy vocal. Touche's 'Just Like A Doorknob' is one of the better ones from that era...or maybe they were French....

Sean P

08-22-2003, 07:37 PM

Oh, yeah...'Take Me To The Top' by Advance...superb.

ladyboygrimsby

08-22-2003, 09:52 PM

That K.I.D.'s awesome (and been sampled on more than one house tune, too). I really like Don't Stop by the same band, though it's a bit more cheesy than Hupendi. OK, it's a lot more cheesy. ;) Awesome but cheesy is a strange combination but the right one, in this case. 'Number One' by them was quite big here, that was OK as well, though 'Hupendi...' was a little unusual. Ago's 'You Make Me Do It' was a good Italian boogie track with an iffy vocal. Touche's 'Just Like A Doorknob' is one of the better ones from that era...or maybe they were French.... Touché were French. But it is the best record ever made about a doorknob, though it's going for far too much money every time I see it for sale :(

Sean P

08-22-2003, 10:42 PM

I wasn't sure about the Touche, as I've only seen it on Italian labels. I have a Touche LP somewhere that's French-Canadian (I think) and is pretty lame. Wonder if these are the same guys who had a record on Emergency? Another, better known goodie is Natasha King's 'AM-FM'. Anybody know any other records about doorknobs?

Jolyon

08-25-2003, 12:48 AM

I wasn't sure about the Touche, as I've only seen it on Italian labels. I have a Touche LP somewhere that's French-Canadian (I think) and is pretty lame. Wonder if these are the same guys who had a record on Emergency? Another, better known goodie is Natasha King's 'AM-FM'. Anybody know any other records about doorknobs? Residents - D Is For Doorknob

shooter mcgavin

08-25-2003, 02:06 AM

cheesy Can't possibly imagine 'italo disco' and 'cheesy' being mentioned in the same thread.. ??? NP: Shemale - "I wanna discover you" (dub)

Jolyon

08-25-2003, 07:02 PM

Is the 7" of KID "Hupendi" the same as the 12"?

matthew

08-26-2003, 07:49 PM

i have got a spare of take me to the top if you want it bill, in exchange for your beneficience with t-life...

ladyboygrimsby

08-26-2003, 08:27 PM

i have got a spare of take me to the top if you want it bill, in exchange for your beneficience with t-life... That'll do me. I've got some cash for you, too. Next week?

Jolyon

08-26-2003, 10:42 PM

We need a disco summit.

matthew

08-27-2003, 12:29 PM

next week is good for me glancing casually at my copy of 'can i take you home' on tsob leads me to belive that it is american, unless it was remixed from an italian original.. it was written by mel sheppard and billy nichols and has no mention of any license. jellybean did a nice edit of kasso on a delirium 12"

Topester

09-15-2003, 06:05 PM

Kano - I'm Ready is my favourite Italo cut and there's a great track called Ajeha (or something like that anyway) on the same album and on the flip of the 12 'Its A war' which sounds very much like EW&F Doctors Cat - Watch Out is up there with Feel the Drive Clockwork Toys - Do It Anyway You Wanna Do It is a killer cover of People's Choice Stephany - Shame (instrumental) is a brilliant boogie tune Clubhouse - Do It Again/Billie Jean (especially the instrumental) a handy bargain basement party starter Tulio de Piscopal - Stop Bajon (Primavera) - Balearic innit? Bit like like Wang Chung. did anyone mention Kelin & MBO yet? Or indeed, Change? Or Black Box?!

Topester

09-15-2003, 06:12 PM

Or Rondo Venizziama? Now THAT was a crime in the name of Balearic!

smiley

09-16-2003, 12:33 AM

The End - "You Drive Me Wild" hahahahaha! ;D after you with the airhorn mate...

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 09:49 AM

Welcome.....Welcome....My name is....Gino Latino.....Hawze moosic all nigh loong.... What about favourite Italian house tracks? Baffa - Piano On Dilemma - In Spirit Daniel Daviolli - Mysteries De L'Amour Wood Allen - Co-Imperial/Airport 89 Q Words - That's The Choice etc. etc.

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 09:54 AM

Or Rondo Venizziama? Now THAT was a crime in the name of Balearic! Ha! I heard Justin Robertson play that at Most Excellent! Tis truely a crime in the name of bally-earic.

Very Ape

09-16-2003, 10:18 AM

Does Don Carlos - 'Alone' count as Italian house? Anyway, a gorgeous tune...

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 10:24 AM

Does Don Carlos - 'Alone' count as Italian house? Anyway, a gorgeous tune... Agreed! Top record!

Topester

09-16-2003, 12:03 PM

Insofar as its house made in Italy by an Itailan I guess its Italian house ;) Had a bit of a "moment" when Ladyboy Mariner played Jestofunk at Lowlife in February... cracking stuff. What about Funkmaster Sweat - Wicked Funk. Neither house nor disco but definitely Italian, wicked and indeed funk. dodgy music but happy memories of shopping in Trax Flying, that shop in the Garage on Kings Road where the Conran restaurant is now and the one above a shoe shop in Covent garden - I think run by the Monkey Drum and Naked Lunch people respectively but I forget... Paradise Orch - Colour Me Mechanix- Get Down Kasso - I Love The Piano (the remix that ripped off Eric B & Rakim) Korda - Move Your Body Chico Secchi - Keep On Jamming Petra & Co Just Let Go (just the dub of course) ooh I think that's enough mozarella for one day... now where's me tambourine?

ladyboygrimsby

09-16-2003, 12:21 PM

While the bad Italo-house somewhat outweighs the good, there are some that still stand the test of time. To wit: Don Carlos - Alone (fantastic!) Steve Banzara - Black DJ Ivan - Happy (Tribu Mix) (killer deep house from 91) Jestofunk - I'm Gonna Love You DJ Leroy - Boccachica (Dave Lee fave) DJ Sasha - A Heavenly Trance (no, not that Sasha) And that bonkers tribal record Our Father In Heaven that Danny Tenaglia used to play, that I can't remember the name of.

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 12:33 PM

Sasha Heavenly Trance is in my top ten house tracks I reckon. Never dates at all. With you 100% on Alone and Jestofunk. A few more... TNT - I Kill Love (bit dated now but rocked it back then) Sined Rosa - I Don't Know What It Is (instrumental cover of Pete Shelley) Tramp - Say No Dope (very silly hip house which marvellous chorus praising the joys of Cocaine - it goes straight into yer brain according to the song) Rhythm Foundation - Let The Whole World Now (brilliant piano) Axe Corner - Tortuga (rip off of Chime) and...all time cheese favourite Keep Warm by Jinny.

Topester

09-16-2003, 12:35 PM

Visnadi - Racing Tracks on UMM... a Sabresonic classic that still sounds as phucked up and brilliant today actually, don't tell everyone but I really like Everybody Everybody by Black Box

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 12:40 PM

I don't mind Fantasy by them either....well it is Martha Wash essentially...

ladyboygrimsby

09-16-2003, 12:45 PM

Visnadi - Racing Tracks on UMM... a Sabresonic classic that still sounds as phucked up and brilliant today actually, don't tell everyone but I really like Everybody Everybody by Black Box And don't tell everybody, but I (still) own DJ Professor and Francesco Zappala's We Gotta Do It. I bought it after hearing Weatherall play it and as shocking as it is, I can't bring myself to chuck it. It reminds me of that night.

smiley

09-16-2003, 12:59 PM

kwanza posse - 'wicked funk' nothing like it for making the floor go chug-chug-chug :) i'd completely forgotten about jestofunk 'i'm gonna love you' and guess f**kin' what... i go to find it for a listen and some nasty **** must've pinched it... sometime... in the last ten years... b*ll*cks. i hate that. >:(

Topester

09-16-2003, 01:11 PM

I think I've hung onto a fair bit of Itaian cheese just because it reminds me of good times wearing a flouncy laurence llewlyen bowen style shirt and a smile! One that's borderline between brillaint and terrible is Double D - Found Love. Shame about Jestofunk going walkies... i heard its hard to find these days. Mind you with this new fangled interweb highway it might pop up, there seems to be a lot of itaialn's selling on ebay's disco section at the moment.

howler

09-16-2003, 01:24 PM

Took me bloody ages to find a new copy of Jestofunk after mine went walkies too! Finally tracked it down on a compilation (i know, but sometimes you have to settle for what you can get), 'Riviera House Tr'axx' compiled by Ricky Montanari'. If I remember correctly it was from www.tunes.co.uk

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 01:25 PM

i've sold 90% of my house records now, over the last few years, but the ones i've hung on to are the italian ones. like you lot they bring back too many memories to ever let them go. Peeeeeeeeeeeeace and Harmony.....all we needs a little....whizz n half an E....etc.

smiley

09-16-2003, 01:25 PM

i think i know which of my sticky-fingered friends has it, along with a few others too... snatchy little baleric-loving pikey... :) yet another reason to make him hand over his gus gus / 16b remix to me.

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 01:29 PM

i've seen justofunk at mve loads and loads of times over the years. often in the european club classics section or the balearic section....and a few times in the quid bins.

Groover

09-16-2003, 01:42 PM

These would be my choices, I admit a lot of it ain't exactly stood the test of time JT Company - Don't Deal With Us Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino K Tronics Ensemble - House of Calypso Koxo Club Band - Paradhouse (think this was Italian, not 100%) Double FM - Illusion Last Rhythm - Last Rhythm Asha - JJ Tribute Don Carlos - Alone Double Dee - Found Love Cheesy fave is Gino Latino. Can't help cracking up when I listen to it.

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 01:46 PM

Double FM - Illusion still holds up on the dancefloor. Same with Sueno Latino. Some other corkers there Groover - are you a northern chap by any chance?

Topester

09-16-2003, 02:06 PM

Groover pretty much there with you all the way! House Of Calypso is bad bad bad! Oh yeah - and what about the truly awesome Soft House Company - What We Need/A Little Piano... as played by Larry Levan so it therefore follows it must be good (just like Sam Fox 'Touch Me'!)

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 02:11 PM

Groover pretty much there with you all the way! House Of Calypso is bad bad bad! Oh yeah - and what about the truly awesome Soft House Company - What We Need/A Little Piano... as played by Larry Levan so it therefore follows it must be good (just like Sam Fox 'Touch Me'!) One Night In Bangkok and the world's your oyster. or something.

smiley

09-16-2003, 02:16 PM

what happened to the italians? or was it us? no, it's them... planet funk is sad footnote... 'chase the sun' excepted ;)

Groover

09-16-2003, 04:08 PM

Double FM - Illusion still holds up on the dancefloor. Same with Sueno Latino. Some other corkers there Groover - are you a northern chap by any chance? Oh, I forgot Heylom Halib......... Nah, i'm a Londoner. But I love the old northern sound. Speaking of not standing the test of time I was flicking the channels a couple of months ago and saw Top of the Pops 2 and Black Box - Ride on Time - you should have seen Davoli, - top hat, everything.

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 04:56 PM

starlight - numero uno ... now that was pure cheese. oh johnny parker - love it forever was top as well....piano madness

DiskDalek

09-16-2003, 05:04 PM

And can I add The Last Minister "Be Free" ... ? Lovely tune ...

Jolyon

09-16-2003, 05:24 PM

nice little shuffler that one! lovely!

rob.j

09-16-2003, 11:13 PM

And can I add The Last Minister "Be Free" ... ? Lovely tune ... Anyideas where this may be obtained please....... what label was this on ? cheers rob

Topester

09-17-2003, 12:07 PM

Irma, same as Jestofunk and Don Carlos and most of the other soulful Itaial stuff... I liked the flip of that one - 'JB Tribute' - James Brown sample/tribute thing still drops today

smiley

09-17-2003, 12:56 PM

Irma still do some excellent compilations too IMO. i used to love having something Italian in the house (literally)... those little export only stamps were cool :)

peter

09-25-2003, 10:47 PM

a few real italo disco tunes: valerie dore - the night fun fun - happy station (ben liebrand remix) advance - take me to the top camaro's gang - ali shuffle doctor's cat - feel the drive

American Vandal

03-25-2004, 07:29 AM

All of them suck without exception.

Blackshore

03-25-2004, 09:04 AM

starlight - numero uno ... now that was pure cheese. Can't help but think of Gary Davis when I hear that one!

American Vandal

03-25-2004, 09:20 AM

Who's Gary Davis then?

bgpz

03-25-2004, 10:30 AM

Gary Davies used to be a DJ on BBC Radio 1 from the early 80s to early 90s. More into at http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/gary_davies_page.htm He also used to be a presenter on the truly abysmal yet compulsive "Sky Trax" in the days of the cable/sat-only Sky Channel (before Murdoch bought it from Jon De Mol and turned it into Sky One).

American Vandal

03-25-2004, 10:32 AM

will check it. Thanks for the nod...

mattm

03-28-2004, 07:10 PM

Gary Davies used to be a DJ on BBC Radio 1 from the early 80s to early 90s. More into at http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/gary_davies_page.htm He also used to be a presenter on the truly abysmal yet compulsive "Sky Trax" in the days of the cable/sat-only Sky Channel (before Murdoch bought it from Jon De Mol and turned it into Sky One). Memories of him playing Richie Havens when I worked in a factory & we had the 'One' on all day. That & getting T Connection on teh golden hour was as good as daytime radio got ( We didnt have Pirates in Grantham) I also have Cheryl Lee Ralph IN teh eevening which I think he used to play a lot

DiscoDigitale

04-12-2006, 10:57 AM

Hello Italo Disco fans!

Disco Digitale is a swedish band inspired by Italo disco. Their debut album "Computer Dreams" is released April 26 on Killing Music recordlabel.
3 full songs are availible for free download in the music section on the bands homepage, together with audio clips from some of the other songs on the album.

Head over to www.discodigitale.com and listen for yourself.

The album is now availble for preorder. The 200 first copies is a limited edition with an additional CD with unreleased tracks and remixes from other bands.

www.discodigitale.com
www.killingmusic.com

Cheers,
Christer

JAZ

05-27-2006, 12:07 PM

liquid mask: Just-A-Moment

baggy

06-24-2006, 07:51 AM

A decent little italo disco page with italo history and decent links at the bottom:

http://www.euro-flash.net/italo.php

Forum with details of italo charts etc.:

http://www.euro-flash.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=14

newfold

01-02-2007, 06:46 PM

hello everybody :)

http://www.djscene.lt/media?id=558

http://www.djscene.lt/media?id=461

http://www.djscene.lt/media?id=419

here I posted some links with disco stuff (mixes) if you want to download it just click on "Parsisiusk" button :)

fabiofal

01-09-2007, 10:34 AM

Thanks for sharing, mate! But... it would be better to post this on the Mixes section, in order to get more... visibility ;)

ciao,
fabio

Julian

02-10-2007, 11:38 PM

a lot of great songs mentioned already,
but two songs that came to mind are;

Snaps Montigo - i'll cast my fate to the wind
Kiss Mich - Age

love it or hate it? hard to decide sometimes, but I guess that's Italo.

..and like mentioned already, a lot of things by Kasso, like the Jellybean Benitez mix on 'Key West'. I still have alot to learn on this genre so keep it coming!

Vic20

02-20-2007, 09:22 PM

Martin Red

12-15-2007, 04:38 PM

Dilemma - In Spirit.

Rondo Venizziama - Theme from venice in peril

not a million miles away from each other.

Martin Red

12-15-2007, 04:43 PM

Who's Gary Davis then?

"oooh gary oooh gary davis ooooh gary davis on your radio"

fabiofal

12-17-2007, 08:34 AM

Rondo Venizziama - Theme from venice in peril

not a million miles away from each other.

Rondo' Veneziano, Martin! ha ha ;)

baleariksoul

07-10-2008, 10:26 PM

I've been compiling a CD-R this morning of Italo stuff.

Could we hear it?

Please.

baleariksoul

07-10-2008, 11:41 PM

Oh btw, Bill - do you fancy interviewing one of the guys out of My Mine? He's an ex of my Mum's (I've just discovered this)...

Apparently - the vocalist on "Hypnotic Tango" was one of the guys from FGTH.

Who knew, eh?

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w93/Bsoul_photo/mymine.jpg

That's him in the middle... (my Mum's ex, not the FGTH vocalist).