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B.W.H. ‎– Livin' Up (Italia, 1983)

This mysterious producer’s music does pretty much what it says on the box… Edgier, harder Italo disco!

So we are presented here with an EP strongly influenced by the synthetic arpeggios, plastic cheesy melodies and disco beats of that infamous genre that filled up dance floors in the 80’s, emptied them in the 90’s and had some kind of revival on the tail of electro clash in the mid 00’s. 
Most probably a generational thing… kids exposed to these sounds in their early years all owned a mac computer with some music package by the time they were teenagers and unsurprisingly went back to the sound they heard while growing up.

But kids of that era also grew up with techno, and house, and maybe had a big brother who liked Donna Summer… And this is where it gets interesting.

Where original Italo Disco could feel quite cheesy and drowned in unnecessary sweet melodies and dodgy vocals, Italo Brutalo’s blend of 80’s disco and synth music is much more futuristic and tongue in cheek, thanks to an obvious techno heritage.

Italo Brutalo doesn’t only own a Mac computer, but also a pretty extensive collection of vintage synthesisers and his music is high energy and yes very synthetic, but it’s also filled with a real love of electronic music and its machines and a passion for the futuristic sounds it blasts out. The result is highly addictive and very powerful.

Opener “Velodrome” and second track “Oggi” are firmly anchored in that italo tradition, boasting a strong 80’s synthetic disco backbone and riding a seriously chunky beat, while the vintages synths weave and unravel a sparkly, psyched out web of melodic sequences and arpeggios.

Third track “Systeria”, while still owing a lot to 80’s synth music, has less of a linear groove and is a bouncier, more syncopated number recalling the more techno and club influences of Italo Brutalo… Leading perfectly to EP closer, Club Bizarre remix of that same track. 
The boys from Metz takes the track for a trip to the basement of a haunted house, where everything is darker, more enigmatic and slower, just like in a dream. Rave music for the living dead, Club Bizarre mix is oppressing and sweaty, like the best of their productions.

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Velodrome

Le duo germano-chilien de chamans  Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer qui réinvente "African Man" avec une science du beat minimaliste, le Londonien Fort Romeau qui injecte un élégant rythme discoïde dans "Go Back"… Entre deep house revival et soul de science fiction, voilà un coup de maître, une véritable extension du domaine du groove du grand maître Tony Allen.

African Man (Villalobos - Loderbauer ZuHouse Remix)

Horizon-Drift

R.E.M. - Computer Communication (1983)

Georgio Moroder , The Chase ( full version )

Another great Italo-Disco tune!
Those arpeggios are really doing it for me....rawr.

Mr Flagio - Take A Chance (Extended 12" Version)

Luca Lozano is back on Super Rhythm Trax with another EP, this time a vibrant 4 tracker channeling and bringing up to date, influences from the under-celebrated year of 1990, a period where house and techno began splintering off and for a while, the sky was the limit, before the beast of Hardcore swept everyone up and fed them to Jungle. Here, bleeps, breaks and bass collide in an explosion of colour sounding super fresh for 2016.

Inner Peace EP

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LINDA BABE MAJIKA - Let's Make A Deal 1988

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Orient Express - Abdullah Dollar

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"Mysterious ensemble CRISTALLI LIQUIDI are back on Artifact with their second single. This is another all-Italian new wave affair entitled CANZONE REGISTRATA (Recorded Song). Of course we have no idea of what the song is about since the lyrics are in Italian" 

CHECK OUT THE OTHER MIXES ON BEATPORT (Alexander Robotnick, Le Macchine...)
http://www.beatport.com/release/canzone-registrata/1072396

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