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It's been a long time... and we finally we have the pleasure to make an interview to Marcello Giordani @marcellogiordani a reference of the italo disco around the world and part of Marvin & Guy. In the following interview you can discover the most selector and charismatic Marcello Giordani where he show his fav italo tracks and his hidden gems on his vinyl collection. 
Check out the full interview in the link below:

MARCELLO GIORDANI - FULL INTERVIEW:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/97t531pwjv9c0y4/ITALO%20MODERNI%20-%20MIX%20%2B%20INTERVIEW%20MARCELLO%20GIORDANI%20%284%29.pdf?dl=0


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Thanks for support this kind of interviews, all made with passion and love for music.

Italo Moderni Team

Interview

IM #77 MIX +  Interview : Marcello Giordani Dj

MM Cast 16: ADRIAN MARTH

Due to our personal lifes we've been in silence more than what we were expecting first. However we are very glad to be back with our MM Cast. This time we get back to 80's territories with a very special mix signed by Adrian Marth, head of the always surprising label "Italo Moderni"

No need to say how much we like the vibe of Italo Moderni and Adrian Marth. The barcelona's based capo, big fan of synths, EBM and Newbeat; has been building recently a solid spot on the scene, being a big influence for dj's who focus their sound on the Italo era.

In this new cast, Adrian Marth dig on his huge vinyl collection delivering a very special mix where (of course) "Italo-Disco" will be the leitmotiv of the story. it's getting dark time to use your  sunglases at night.

MM CAST 16 - Adrian Marth

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Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/dusanlilic / https://soundcloud.com/banda-panda
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LAYER number 303 is coming your way from the two-headed eagle Kiara Scuro!

Rosie Ama and Nadia are everywhere thses days, sporting their trophy pics on social media. The duo started their radio show on London's Balamii Radio in 2016 and soon started performing together in clubs. Gigs across the UK and Europe followed, and now, a fistfull of days after, we see them producing acid and trance tracks and bake more plans for the future together. 

Here we see them LAYERing that blend of acid not acid with wacko electronica on a tempo rollercoaster.

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LAYER #303 | Kiara Scuro

Recording of Marsman's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2022.

TASCAM DR-40

Marsman at Dekmantel Selectors 2022

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The moment arrived! Today the wizard Intergalactic Gary @intergalactic_gary lands on Italo Moderni with a cult mystic mix for our series. 

The Dutch West Coast scene is as fabled as Detroit techno and Chicago house. And Intergalactic Gary − a DJ for 35 years − has been involved with it since day one. The cult selector had a residency at The Hague's first ever house club in 1992 and since then has honed a style that has lead the legendary I-F to call him ‘terminator’ such is the focus he has on the decks.
Whether working you into a trance or keeping you guessing with improbable bridges between raw acid, 70s Italo or fresh techno, he's a flawless, instinctive DJ who is predictably unpredictable. Whether new or old, Gary doesn't care, “as long as it has character and something interesting going on that grabs the attention."
In the studio he’s laid down mutant, disco-tinged electro as The Parallax Corporation and electro and ambient synth pop soundtracks as The Conservatives, both with I-F. He's also recently collaborated with Pasiphae on Bio Rhythm, and for Stroboscopes and Smokemachines, a new documentary about underground electronic music. He aims simply to make music he would want to hear on a night out and imbues his work with a sense of melancholy, but always paired with driving dance floor dynamics that mix up analogue and digital textures. 
A regular at Dekmantel both in Amsterdam and Selectors in Croatia, he has also played China, Australia and Japan, Unsound in Krawkow and the No Way Back Afterparty in Detroit. Only the classiest DJs play these parties; they have hardcore crowds who have high expectations, and Intergalactic Gary is someone who cannot fail to win over even the most hard to impress crowds thanks to the unique craft of his art.

IM MIX 103: Intergalactic Gary

Reconstruction of the set I played at the Weelde Festival, Bordello a Parigi stage, Rotterdam 2022.

Paul du Lac @ Bordello a Parigi stage - Weelde Festival 2022

Belaria invites Pinkman’s boss, marsman. 

Catch Belaria and her guests every 1st and 3rd saturday of the month from 7 until 8pm.

Rinse France Podcast

Belaria invites marsman - 15 Avril 2023

BAR Radio #84 with Marsman (italo special)
Tune in every Friday from 8 to 10 pm on Operator.

Recorded on January 18th 2019.

BAR Radio #84: Marsman (italo-set)

Here's the last 6 hours and 40 minutes of the 8 hour allnighter at the Opium Club residency in Vilnius called 'Komuna'. The first hour has already been uploaded a while ago by Opium Club as part of their 'Zero Hour' series, which can be found below for the full experience. Once again our love to everybody that came here and making it a unforgettable edition of Komuna already. Feels like we are building a very special family of likeminds over there, we'll be back March 10 with John Talabot! Aciu x BSS https://soundcloud.com/opiumclub/zero-hour-009-bss

BSS All-Nighter at 'Komuna' Opium Club, Vilnius 03.01.2020

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

New Beat was born and initially exploded in 1987, went supernova (in Belgium) in 1988 and then the formula morphed a bit and was declared dead in 1989. It was slow and initially all about the atmosphere with industrial strength beats - the main form of rhythmic propulsion being the pounding kick and heavy snare. It was often mainly instrumental and when there was lyrical content it often became more about slogans and giving commands - "Move Your Ass And Feel The Beat!", "Let There Be Brightness!", "Shout Out Loud!". While not really New Beat, it's no surprise Technotronic's "Pump Up Jam" was produced by a crew who had produced a ton of New Beat gems.

In 1989 one of New Beat's founders, Marc Grouls said "New Beat is atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial!!!!!" But, it was already too late. A zillion bandwagon jumpers had diluted the music and flooded the market with too many sub standard 12" singles. New Beat temple, the legendary Boccaccio nightclub, in Destelbergen, near Ghent, had been closed down and it looked like it was all over, but really, it was just the beginning. New Beat morphed into Hard Beat (many of the tracks on this mix are from the Hard Beat era) which quickly morphed into Belgian Rave, which was huge and hugely influential in the UK and is an often overlooked part of the DNA of UK Hardcore, and all that came after. Then from Ghent, R&S Records established itself as thee European Techno label and a huge wave of incredible Techno records emanated from it and many other mighty Belgian labels, but that is another story. 

New Beat arrived just as I first started DJing and I played a lot of it in my DJ sets and built up connections with several of the leading Belgian labels who would send me 12" singles so I had records nobody else here had any idea even existed. I would compile New Beat charts for the music paper The NME which may have given the impression there was a thriving New Beat scene in Scotland. The reality was very different; people here, many of whom would embrace the rave just a little while later never really took to it in a big way.

This mix is comprised of many of my personal favourites that I have loved since they came out (and two I missed at the time and only heard later). I think the tracks have aged like a fine wine, often sounding as good if not better today as they did then. There is definitely a faint whiff of fromage and a big dollop of stoopid in several of these tracks. Of course, it is not all about the cheese and many of these adhere to the "atmosphere, beats, no lyrics, and sure as hell not commercial" rule mentioned above. Some of the best programmed 303 Acid basslines ever made can be heard here along with transcendental hypno synths and those Belgian beats going on and on....! Slow and low, from under 100bpm up to 116, New Beat doesn't chug, it swings in a very distinct way. If you get to see any videos of Belgian clubs of the era, the way people moved to this music is incredible and so different to any dancing we see today.

Many of these tracks are made by the same people under various aliases, which will perhaps be audibly evident. Most of the names have been forgotten, if they were ever even known outside their native Belgium at all, but all are legends to me. 

This mix isn't any kind of attempt to tell the story of New Beat but rather a mix 33 of my favourite 12" singles from that era showing many of the various strains of the New Beat and Hard Beat sound. A lot of love went into this and I hope someone somewhere discovers this music for the first time and falls in love with it as I did way back when. This was Belgium!

This Was Belgium 1987-89 - 2 hours of New Beat favourites

We kick off 2021 with the beast of the harbour city and longtime buddy: David Vunk. No further introduction needed. Strictly fist-pumping-italo-schlagers to cheer us up, we couldn't wish for better. Best wishes to you all and a special shout-out to Swan.

https://soundcloud.com/david-vunk

Bordello Radio #64 - David Vunk (Happy New Year Mix)

BAR was a forward thinking nightclub in downtown Rotterdam with a progressive approach to electronic music. Located in the Schieblock, a multipurpose building for the creative economy, at only 200 meters from Central Station. BAR closed it's doors on June 30th 2019. 

The spirit of BAR lives on through the recordlabel and hostings at various clubs and festivals.

BAR Radio #84: Marsman (italo-set)

BAR ROTTERDAM

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