Feel my Bicep

Real little italo gem here, have built up a big folder of italo stuff to edit/ put in a mix over the past 6/5 months…., but I thought I’d put the odd one up here first, (i’m keeping the my favourites for this mix)….. Like most italo, there’s a fine balance of utter shite and flashes of synthetic brilliance, and ideally most of it needs a good editing to even begin to sound palatable……However, this one manages to sound the business, although I would love to cut it to bits at some stage. Could be awesome!

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Most of you will probably recognise this bumming beat from GTA IV  ”Ballad of Gay Tony”…..I’m not really a fan of this track,…but I dig the 1980’s Biology video-esque intro and thought i’d share it.

Enjoy this horrid homo-slice of 80s analog perversion. 

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Continue reading ‘Patrick Cowley – Menergy (The ballad of Gay Tony)’

Killer edit of  ’Clan of xymox’ track A day from the championed glasgow local Betty Botox, one half of the mighty Optimo duo. Big industrial grimey opening which drop into a totally awesome cosmic italo synth line, top stuff, and thankfully removes the fucking awful vocal from the original. This has just been released on Botox’s G4 faggot edit’s album, which you can pick up at Juno. Well worth checking out. Preview only.

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Outrageously camp jacking Hi NRG flavoured Disco from back in 1982. This appears to have been quite a big influence for tracks like Den Haan’s ‘Nightshift’

This track was actually produced by the legendary Patrick Cowley in collaboration with Parker, who coincidently shares both the 2nd name and giant ‘San-Fran Tash’ with the late Dennis Parker.

Great cowbell’s and relentlessly hissing hi hats assure that this is in keeping with plenty of  your peak time tackle. Enjoy, with a cocktail.

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Paris’s answer to Annie Lennox…… Desireless composed “Voyage Voyage”, a camp dreamy synthpop song that topped the charts in many European countries. Big fan of a lot of 1980’s french synthpop, and this is up there with best. 

Pretty obscure edit here, don’t know who it’s by, but it’s one of the best version’s I’ve come across, along with the Brit mix. 

Italo edit

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Brit mix

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Continue reading ‘Desireless – Voyage Voyage (Italo Disco mix) edit’

Slow, dark and contrastingly dreamy (in places) italo disco here from Le Jete, check it boi!  

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Continue reading ‘Le Jete – La Cage Aux Folles (Instrumental)’

The funky jerkin bass in this track does it all here, fun time Italo (made in Germany, 22 years ago), I’m pretty sure Venga Boys or the like sampled this track, they were clearly on the ball…  All the same this is a great track with some serious synth play and its got a real pumping good-time feel, while i’m jogging to the gym, this makes me flexxed to get there rapid.

Lian Ross – Reach Out

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A dark take on Italio from Mr Cisco, aka Francisco De Bellis. Driving bass, airy synths and a healthy dose of menace for good measure.

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On the theme of cheesy italo, here’s an edit we did last year for a mix. It’s a re-shuffle of an obscure early 80’s italo track, we’ve cut out the shite vocal entirely and added lots of extra synths, percussion and arpeggiated bass. Great sax solo near the end, pure brie. 

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Continue reading ‘Hivoh – To be together (Bicep’s let have sax edit)’

Wooooow. Maiovvi’s first single from his forth coming ‘Shadow of the blood stained kiss’ album on seed records is a total killer! If you havn’t heard of this guy, and you probably havn’t, then your in for a real treat, because his second album is due out on August 3rd and its packed with sleazy cheap synth action, perfect for hunting down prostitutes and zombies.
“‘Shadow of the Blood Stained Kiss’ is the Antoni Maiovvi score to a nonexistent 1983 Italian Sci-fi giallo starring Barbara Cupisti and Ian McCulloch. In the distant future “Europa,” the 2nd moon of Jupiter has been colonized by man. In the midst of this Utopian era a dangerous struggle for power between organised crime and the highest level of government is underway and when Juliet Hardy (Barbara Cupisti), a stunning discotheque singer, becomes witness to a murder the only person who believes her is tough-nosed cyber-journalist, Jason Scott (Ian McCulloch). Together, they unravel more than they bargained for as a sadistic killer runs loose brutally slaying anyone in connection to the crime. Who does this man in black work for and what is the connection between him and an ancient order that have been controlling the known universe since the dawn of time?” 

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Continue reading ‘Antoni Maiovvi – The Chase part 1′

No one really knows what this song is about, some say it’s about his quest, to find out what love really is, others say its about his journey across america, spying on young sleeping college girls………who knows

One thing I do know was that Mike Mareen was a little sleazy weirdo…… but he did make some damn good/bad Hi-NRG italo disco, here’s our favourite. Love Spy.

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Out in 2007 on flashback Records this is some relatively new italo. Pretty punchy and some nice vocals!

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Jangly upbeat High NRG italo disco track. reminded me of tiga’s remix of washing up for some reason. Pretty rare record that fetches a lot of moula.

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Found this french 70’s space rock band earlier. They’ve got some cool synth-rich tracks and even a robotic vocoder cover of the Canned Heat classic ”On the road again”.
Galactic sleaze!

Rockets – On the road again

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Rockets - Ideomatic

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Rockets - Cosmic Race

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Rockets - Venus Rapsody

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Continue reading ‘Rockets – On the road again (Canned Heat cover)’

This song is sooo good, we’ve decided to re-post it! Absolute italo NRG charged anthem & the production is so tight it could’ve been made last week!!

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