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It’s great - we organised the first uk showing at rye wax in Peckham - went down really well with the audience and the owner of private records, who put out the soundtrack, played a set after
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It’s great - we organised the first uk showing at rye wax in Peckham - went down really well with the audience and the owner of private records, who put out the soundtrack, played a set after
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Nice kb...pure cheddar
Picked this up the other day:
Bordello A Parigi records are great for Italo disco new and old.
Here's a mix by them from a couple of months ago:
Fez909
toilet expert
Tune :italo_finger_emoji:
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
I'm a big fan of 'what the fuck were they thinking when they actually recorded, then actually released this terrible awful badness' Italo:
Mathieau - Whithout Time (7'' Version) - YouTube
B side 'Baby Angie' is mesmerisingly shit as well, but for some reason it's only showing on the Discogs page - strong recommend if you want to hear something awesomely awful, on this solemn day of mourning...
Mathieau - Whithout Time (7'' Version) - YouTube
B side 'Baby Angie' is mesmerisingly shit as well, but for some reason it's only showing on the Discogs page - strong recommend if you want to hear something awesomely awful, on this solemn day of mourning...
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Rosanna Residenti - You And Me Tonight (Italo-Disco on 7") - YouTube
Badly played, badly recorded, vocals with all the charm of cat piss on barbed wire - brilliant. Like having your nose rubbed into a stranger's dirty underwear and finding out it's in some way weirdly enjoyable, even though you don't want to accept that it is.
Badly played, badly recorded, vocals with all the charm of cat piss on barbed wire - brilliant. Like having your nose rubbed into a stranger's dirty underwear and finding out it's in some way weirdly enjoyable, even though you don't want to accept that it is.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
MysteryGuest hello old bean! Delighted to see you here again!
MysteryGuest
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MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Wotcha K - u OK? One does trust that you're keeping well and life is being kind to you... I'm in a celebratory mood tonight so thought I'd pop back with some nice musics. Er... it's like it's gone all sci-fi on here... might take a bit of getting used to I think!
Er... it's like it's gone all sci-fi on here... might take a bit of getting used to I think!
MysteryGuest
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I've got a list of whiffy Italos here... actually I'm going to put a good one up (dunno if it counts as Italo tbh but I like it so ner).
David Gray - Let's Dance Tonight (Vocal 12 Version) - YouTube
I like the parallel fifths in the overtones in the intro.
David Gray - Let's Dance Tonight (Vocal 12 Version) - YouTube
I like the parallel fifths in the overtones in the intro.
MysteryGuest
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MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
it's been a poor week if I'm honest, but today's news has managed to raise a smile. as has seeing you about - I wanted to talk to you a bit ago when I got into Wim Mertens and a search revealed you were the only person here into him... sadly you were nowhere to be found and flemish pop minimalism seems pretty fringe even here.Wotcha K - u OK? One does trust that you're keeping well and life is being kind to you... I'm in a celebratory mood tonight so thought I'd pop back with some nice musics.
MysteryGuest
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Argh, sorry to hear it's been a sub-optimal week, just hang on in there and dose yourself up with fine musics as much as poss.
Bruv, I know it's a cliche but Mertens' earliest stuff is the best... yeah I know...
It's true, though! The original version of Multiple 12 for 12 violas was the first thing I heard by him, on French radio back in midwinter 1982, back when he was using the name Soft Verdict, after taping it off the radio I went into town on a glorious cold day, golden sun in the cobalt blue sky, and found the Vergessen LP in the old Virgin shop in Queens Road Brighton (pre-megastore days), got it, and pretty much wore it out... His A Visiting Card track is a killer too, mindboggling how he can conjure up something on that level with so few notes, very beautiful. Also strong recommend for No Plans No Projects on the 1987 Educes Me LP. I presume you already know about the Epic That Never Was album, which is ravishingly gorgeous...
MysteryGuest
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Attila - Video Games d'Amore - YouTube
Groovy modulations, strangely enhanced by apparently being recorded in a toilet.
Groovy modulations, strangely enhanced by apparently being recorded in a toilet.
Multiple 12 was my intro too, on a Blackest Ever Black mixtape Paddy from Gnod stuck on at an afterparty - I made him rewind and play it a load of times, then spent the next afternoon tracking down what the fuck it was... agree the early stuff is the best but I've enjoyed bits from throughout.
Not heard the Epic that Never Was, I'll track it down asap. Cheers!
Not heard the Epic that Never Was, I'll track it down asap. Cheers!
MysteryGuest
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Not heard the Epic that Never Was, I'll track it down asap. Cheers!
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It's kind of grandiloquent/histrionic, melancholic and impossibly beautiful. Live in (I think) Lisbon, very nice recording. I was living in a shared house in the late 90s with this depressive, rather amusing, guy who played massively loud lovers rock a lot on the floor above my g/f's room, then one day he came running down the stairs when he heard EtNW demanding to know what it was, taped it off me, then we began hearing gorgeous grand piano/countertenor vocal theatrics coming from his room instead (a massive improvement in our opinion! )
e2a: argh, I bollocksed up the quote for the first time ever! Ah well. Still trying to get used to this new technology...
Not heard the Epic that Never Was, I'll track it down asap. Cheers!
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It's kind of grandiloquent/histrionic, melancholic and impossibly beautiful. Live in (I think) Lisbon, very nice recording. I was living in a shared house in the late 90s with this depressive, rather amusing, guy who played massively loud lovers rock a lot on the floor above my g/f's room, then one day he came running down the stairs when he heard EtNW demanding to know what it was, taped it off me, then we began hearing gorgeous grand piano/countertenor vocal theatrics coming from his room instead (a massive improvement in our opinion!
)e2a: argh, I bollocksed up the quote for the first time ever! Ah well. Still trying to get used to this new technology...
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Evolution (L&L) - Radio (Rare Italo) - YouTube
From the same label as that video games d'amore track.
From the same label as that video games d'amore track.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Daniela - My Life In A Mirror (Italo-Disco) - YouTube
Never made it more than half way through this... like an Italian Florence Foster-Jenkins (so Firenze Foster-Jenkins then, ha ha). Did not anybody say something at some point? Excruciating.
Never made it more than half way through this... like an Italian Florence Foster-Jenkins (so Firenze Foster-Jenkins then, ha ha). Did not anybody say something at some point? Excruciating.
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