At the beginning of the 90s a new music wave was emerging in Italy. Influenced by stylistic elements and sound expressions arriving from abroad - in particular from those english and american labels – it has created the bases for an innovative sound destined to leave its mark for generations to come. It was a sound close to the Deep House atmospheres coming from Chicago, Detroit and New York. A sound made of powerful basslines, punching drum machines, dreamy melodies and incredibly sensuous vibrations.
Dream House, Italo House, Piano House are names often used to identify this new scene, but it could be simply summed up in one word: "Underground". 
Inspired by an innate sense of freedom and experimentation, a generation of Italian DJs and producers envision the sound of the future. The music becomes a muse, enchanting and unifying. The movement fires up  in the clubs. The record shops act as a sounding board. And the alignment of all the planets generates an invasion of celestial bodies.

"Ciao Italia” wants to be a tribute to the artists that wrote this story. Artists that were forced to use many different aliases that often even themselves have forgotten and certainly less celebrated than their colleagues today. 
From Andrea Gemolotto, Massimino Lippoli, Fabrice, Mr Marvin, Davide Rizzatti and Angelino Albanese (DFC Records), Ricky Montanari and Flavio Vecchi (Love Quartet), Paramour, Adrian Morrison and Dj Ralf 

(Heartbeat Records), passing through the productions of Alex Neri and Marco Baroni (formerly Kamasutra, Green Baize, Agua Re up to becoming Planet Funk) for Palmares, up to Don Carlos and Stefano Tirone (together Montego Bay Experience) Francesco Montefiori (aka Key Tronics Ensemble and Soft House Company) and Claudio “Moz-Art Rispoli (Jestofunk and Omniverse) on Irma and Antima Records, Leo Mas, Rago and Farina, MBG, Paolino Bova, Gianni Bini and Paolo Martini, up to names that have remained more in the shadows but have given great lymph and depth to music Made in Italy such as Leo Anibaldi , Andrea Benedetti and Eugenio Vatta (Frame), Leandro Papa (Last Rhythm e Stonehenge), Cesare Cerulli and Toni Verde (Blue Zone), Graziano Ragni (High Tide), Massimo Berardi (Underground Nation Undertour Sensation and Cosmic Galaxy) and Massimo Zennaro and all those producers that we were not able to include in this collection because of the lack of space.

A rhythmic journey to rediscover what has been, what continues to be and what will be, “Ciao Italia” tells a story that still sounds incredibly current, whose reverberations continue to be the object of veneration among DJs, clubbers and music lovers of new generations. As confirmed by the new productions ideally inspired by the iconic sound of the time, testimony of an Italian avant-garde alive and vivid not only in memories but more than ever in the here and now.
Not only a "musical style", but also a way of approaching reality characterized by enthusiasm, a global vision and a spirit suited to the most eclectic and boundless creativity. 

Born from an idea of Daniele "Shield" Contrini, with the art direction of Stupefacente Studio, the project took shape in a double vinyl format with an insert, signed by the journalist Elia Zupelli, which reconstructs an era through the voices of the protagonists, photographs, interviews, rarities and dazzles from the 
dancefloors. So, while the vinyl slides under the needle, the hope is to be able to grasp the atmosphere and live it again for a few moments, clinging to the indomitable charm of  the "underground" grooves: a mnemonic flow from the past and a driving force for a new course projected into the future.

Leo Anibaldi - Elements

Part Of: Driving Home EP
Catalog: MIU022
Release Date: 10.12.21
Buy Link: https://hypeddit.com/carlosbenedetti/drivinghome

Carlos Benedetti
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Miura Records
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Release Text:
Straight from Colombia, groovy bandolero Carlos Benedetti is part of the newest Colombian House cartel. Following the path of success via brilliant productions, he makes his Miura debut with three original extra-lefty tracks and two sick remixes from Ezzy and Vray. Fasten your seatbelt when driving home!

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PREMIERE: Carlos Benedetti - Acid Rain [Miura Records]

https://missile-records.bandcamp.com/album/missile-vintage-020-dan-morgan-brothers-and-sisters-1993

MISSILE VINTAGE 020 - DAN MORGAN - BROTHERS AND SISTERS - DEEP MIX_1993

We had to dig this one out for a very cool upcoming mix project so we thought we'd share it. From 1998's "The Collective". This was a vinyl only release btw.

Octave One online:
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Octave One "Trak 3"

Zambarena

Download : https://miniline.bandcamp.com/album/solar-path-ep

PREMIERE : Dani R - Solar Path [mINILINE]

El Alma (Original Mix)
El Alma (Camiel Daamen Remix)
La Soledad (Original Mix)
La Soledad (Mada.Mada Remix)

Mastering by Pitagora Studio (Giulio Abbattista)
Vocals by Monica Pirez
Artwork by Wouter De Witte


Two creative souls meet in the void with open hearts and open minds. FBR & Lathouwers crafting a deep exploration of longing, silence, and isolation. Crafted for the afterhours. For the wait. For the ones dancing alone.

Camiel Daamen, Freeborn label head, offers a fresh take on El Alma, infusing it with his signature sexy touch: deep, groovy, and effortlessly smooth.


El Alma (Camiel Daamen Remix)

Sunrise - EP

Something for Myself

B1 - On And On

Buy/stream: https://kompaktrecords.lnk.to/EverybodysKissingEveryoneSD

The story’s been told before, though perhaps it hasn’t been documented as well as it should have been: a group of young producers in Germany were knocked out by acid tracks, and in particular, the UK’s acid house moment, convinced by the way it negotiated pop’s pleasure and dancing’s drive. Across the turn of the decade, The Bionaut’s Jörg Burger, alongside friends and peers Wolfgang Voigt, Ingmar Koch, Cem Oral, Andreas Bolz, Gregor Luttermann, would produce a dizzying number of tracks under a mountain of pseudonyms.

1992 was a turning point for Burger. Moving between Frankfurt and Cologne, Burger produced Everybody’s Kissing Everyone with one eye on the dancefloor, the other on the lounge room. The productions from these fruitful sessions share a glam poppiness, even at their most supine, with Burger returning to his pop roots. This was a running theme across the nineties, as he released a stretch of pop-electronica albums and EPs as The Bionaut and The Modernist.

Vivid and welcoming, precision-tooled for the dancefloor, dewy-eyed and humbly melancholy, The Bionaut’s productions manage to make risk and experimentation welcoming, joyous – the inverse of so much studious experimental music. Talking about his productions as The Bionaut, Burger uses the term ‘metapop’ to explain his music, and that’s a perfect way of thinking about what he does – it’s at once pop and beyond pop, with a knowingness that gleefully ransacks pop’s history.

You can hear, in the seven tracks on Everybody’s Kissing Everyone, reflections of UK acid house, the spiralling squelch of Chicago acid tracks, the lilting lightness of pop-trance, but the connecting force is a lushness of tone and richness of melody that points forward to the pop-tronica of later Bionaut. Here, Burger takes a snapshot of that precise middle-point between the dancefloor and the bedroom and colours it in both primaries and pastels. It’s a most elegant swoon.

Buy/stream

The Bionaut - A Man His Dog Out For Air

Spirit Catcher - (B1) Dirty Circuit [Missive 2004 - MISS 021]

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The Bionaut - A Man His Dog Out For Air

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