In the studio of the small Italian town of Cremona, some of the famous but early representatives of a not-yet-named- music style called Italo Disco get together to record a song. Among them are the most active and influential singers, producers and arrangers of this musical movement from Cesare Pasquali to Jimmy Mc Foy including Ottavio Bacciocchi.

Most importantly, two friends, Larry Pignagnoli and the famous Ivana Spagna, were writing a song together. It has been unnoticed so far, but always had the power and stamina to make the dead dance.

Here it's is:
Stelee-Up - Waiting For You (Flemming Dalum Special ZYX Remix)

Big thanks to my friends at Pardonnez-nous for the 12inch vinyl release back in early 2022

Thanks to the entire team at ZYX Music, and especially Jörg Kunz.

Essential for all italo fans.

Get "ZYX Italo Disco New Generation Vol. 21" directly from ZYX here:
https://zyx.de/produkt/zyx-italo-disco-new-generation-vol-21/

Stelee-Up - Waiting For You (Flemming Dalum Special ZYX Remix)

Buy directly at ZYX

Like a disco ball, Zacab's facets illuminate the darkest corners of clubs, raves, and the faces of the night. 

It's impossible to predict the direction his DJ sets will take, as he has navigated for years from raves to clubs.

As a member of Le Salon Record Store, he wears many hats and collects records.

Creator of the radio show "Swiss Underground Bastringues" on Loose Antenna (Lausanne's web radio) and resident on Trnstn Radio, Zacab covers the history of electronic music and Swiss underground culture. He also curates musical and scenographic projects, including the project "Body Dance Synth Music".

His musical universe is rooted in the revolutionary synth sounds of the 80s, blending contemporary tracks and styles. Navigating through new wave, italo disco, synthpop, EBM, and electro, his DJ sets create a retro-futuristic experience that he describes as "body dance synth music.

Artist, DJ, Producer, musician and record collector ... since 1980.

Releases on: ZYX, Blanco Y Negro, Best Record, DWA (Dance World Attack), Private Records, Disco Modernism, Flashback Records, Fresh Colour, Giorgio Records, Lusso Records, Special Groove Records,  Analog Language, Vintage Pleasure Boutique, Extravaganza Publishing Srl, Forest Jams, Mordisco records, Italo Moderni, Around My Dream Records, Disco Evolution, Magic Sound Records, Tonight Records, I.D. Limited, Fonogrammi Particolari, Mannequin Records, Pardonnez-nous, SP Records, No More Pop, Opilec Music, Radio Cosmos, Disco Segreta, Mecanica, Bordello A Parigi, Vielspaß, Archivio Fonografico Moderno, Mond Musik, Nadanna, Cyber Dance, Viewlexx, Moustache, Roller Disco, Red Laser, Flight Recorder, Rebirth Records, Panama Racing, Flexx, Mothball, Wuff records, Cargo Records, Centre Neptune, Magic Waves, Medellin Mixage, Space Sound Records, Maschina Records, I Am Private/Universal Music, Lucky Harvest Music Company, Paper Bag Records, Emerald & Doreen, CrunchyFrogDK, Power Dance.

Flemming Dalum, also know as King of the cut, discovered his musical journey at an early age. An interest based out of curiosity for electronic synthesizer legends emerging while he grew up. With his first synth, the Korg Polysix, a lifelong passion was born. He started playing in bands in 1982, experimenting with electronics and the new world of sounds and possibilities. At the same time he started experimenting with records and discovered a natural talent for mixing and blending synths with records, creating his own unique world of sound. In mind that the CD wasn't invented, neither was the HD recorder, the heart in Flemmings set-up was a simple cassette recorder. An invention that should soon add yet another angle to his musical universe. With snappy skills and imagination, the cassette soon became his most important instrument taking him to the next level. The world of mixing. With sampler, echomachine, decks, synths and a beloved cassette recorder, the first true mixes came out of his studio already in 1983. Mixes with so much detail, soon giving him the legendary name "King of the cut". In the same year, 1983, Flemming stumbled across Koto "Chinese Revenge", a discovery that should soon lead Flemming into a brave new world matching his own, with synths and electronics being the heart of the music. The passion became strong and shortly after the Koto discovery, brought him to his first trip to Milan, Il Discotto, Discomagic, Non-Stop, Merak etc. to investigate the Italo phenomenon in detail. The following years Flemming visited the Italian distributors 11 times which later proves to be one of the major reasons to the fact that he has one of the worlds most complete collections of Italo and Disco. Through the years, the synths has been replaced with computers and equipment matching the urge for mixing. Something that has kept the true Italo spirit alive and made Flemming Dalum a legend in mixing today.

I enter this unknown underground in a burst of intoxication. The bass is already echoing through the red and wet corridor. As I enter past the threshold, the music pounds in my ears like a violent earthquake. The ground vibrates from under my feet up into my ribcage. A rising heat suddenly stifles me. I try to make my way through this crowd gathered into an impenetrable fauna. I advance through this hostile jungle until I enter a second room. The pounding sound keeps slaying my ears but my body seems to instinctively activate itself . The collective trance is overwhelming. My mind is spinning out of control. I feel different... and myself also. A hitherto unknown feeling floods my senses. I am stuck in this box with no apparent issue and yet I feel freer than ever. I discover a world full of illusions because in the end, this must be pleasure: the illusion of an ephemeral elsewhere for one night, from which only one feeling will remain.




C’est dans un élan d’ivresse que je pénètre dans ce souterrain inconnu.
Les basses résonnent déjà dans ce couloir rouge et humide.
Alors que je franchis la porte d’entrée, la musique arrive à mes oreilles comme un violent tremblement de terre. Le sol vibre sous mes pieds et jusque dans ma cage thoracique. Une montée de chaleur m’étouffe subitement.
Je tente de me frayer un passage entre tous ces gens constituant une faune impénétrable. J’avance à travers cette jungle hostile jusqu’à arriver dans une deuxième salle. Le son terrasse mes oreilles mais mon corps s’active instinctivement. La trance collective m’envahit.
Mon esprit devient incontrôlable. Je me sens différent mais moi même.
Une sensation jusqu’alors inconnue m'inonde. Je suis coincé dans cette boite sans issue apparente et pourtant plus libre que jamais.
Je découvre un monde rempli d’illusions car finalement c’est peut-être ça le plaisir : l’illusion d’un ailleurs éphémère le temps d’une nuit, dont il ne restera qu’une impression.

Italo Disco to Dark Disco to E.B.M. to Trance

Co-founder @ Champ Libre
Co-founder @ Klub Thérapie

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