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Italo 2024

::: e radio: 2024 electro

Matteo Mussoni and Nicola Zucchi were raised on the disco romance of the 1970s and early 80s. Channelling their shared love of music machines and mirrorballs, the duo founded Sparkling Attitude. Their debut EP draws on the magic of italo disco, the synthesizer soundtracks of the silverscreen and the open stretches of the Italian coastline. “Dov’eri Sabato Sera” recounts the tale of unrequited love; youth, possibility and dashed hopes play out to a crisp rhythm and wistful melodies. Those heart-strained notes then take the limelight for the instrumental version, analogue strings soaring to impassioned heights. The flames keep burning on the flip with “Melodico Romantico”. Disco infused, bold and brazen beats are made-up in dark rouges and effervescent greens as breathy vocals whisper. Mussoni and Zucchi dive deep into their machines for the curtain close. Inspired by Japanese culture, made in Italy, daring key stabs and astral echoes are draped in a late-night groove for this glittering finale. Joyous sounds from a Sparkling Attitude.

Vinyl

Sparkling Attitude - Melodico Romantico EP (Incl. Daniele Baldelli Remix) [BORDELLO A PARIGI]

::: e radio: april 2024

Sparkling Attitude - Melodico Romantico EP

Palms Trax signals the arrival of his new label CWPT with ‘Petu’, a new single featuring South African vocalist, Nonku Phiri. Originally debuting in dub form during the Berlin-based DJ and producer’s set at The Music Locker as part of Grand Theft Auto Online, ‘Petu’ reemerges here as a soulful collaboration, neatly complimented by a wide-eyed take from Masalo.

Initially written as a slow-heating instrumental to connect the various musical dots across a DJ set, Palms Trax nonetheless had a vocalist in mind throughout, a fresh voice to lend ‘Petu’ universality and energy. Introduced through mutual friend Esa, Johannesburg’s Nonku Phiri draws on her signature style influenced by vintage Afropop styles and folk traditions, delivering a smooth and vulnerable tale of desire. Triumphant brass recorded by instrumental collective Jungle By Night adds to the depth of instrumentation and feeling throughout, each element driven by Palms Trax’s ebullient percussion and an altogether celebratory energy felt across both the original and dub cuts.

Closely associated with Dutch dance music staple Rush Hour Records, Masalo subtly raises the tempo on his high-energy rework of Petu, spinning off the interconnected elements of the original into a memorable and gloriously Italo-tinged house trip.

Established in 2021, CWPT will play home to Palms Trax original productions alongside collaborations, mixtapes, new-generation artists and vital reissues. An online blog will feature interviews, reportage and charts exploring the stories past and present at the fringe of Palms Trax’s wide-reaching record collection.

Petu

Palms Trax & Nonku Phiri - Petu (CWPT001)

Introducing CWPT - the brand new label from Berlin-based, British DJ and producer Palms Trax.

For the label’s maiden voyage, Palms Trax teams up with South African vocalist Nonku Phiri for the soulful, Afropop-inspired disco groover ‘Petu’.

The hawk-eyed amongst you may recognise the dub version of ‘Petu’ from Palms Trax’s set at The Music Locker as part of Grand Theft Auto Online, but it’s the supercharged remix from Amsterdam-based producer Masalo that gets our pick for the premiere. Enjoy!

Pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/cwpt_petu

Pre-Order

Phonica Premiere: Palms Trax feat. Nonku Phiri - Petu (Masalo Remix)[CWPT]

Greg Wilson Presents XXXO & ICA Beats

Equip XXXO

A Story of Italo Disco, Indie Dance, Slow Motion, New Wave, Breakbeat ...is now starting.

INCOMING : Tjade - Voyager #BordelloAParigi

Release date : 2022-07-25

Buy : https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/tjade-voyager-ep/

After the success of Bollywood infused edit of Koi Jaye and the Three Eyes remix, Tjade is back on Bordello A Parigi with a four tracker of varied delights. A clear enthusiasm for bright melodies and bending bars of trance runs through his Voyager EP. The title track judders to life on rumbling arpeggio lines, while the leads are crisp and beats racing fast as an anthem for dancing till sunrise dawns. “In Contact” offers corkscrew acid key shifts and sentimental chiptune melodies, while broken beats and the devil-may-care chords characterise “Shut Out”. Tjade provides music to help cares float away and bring people together. To top it all off, the master of all things modern rave Marlon Hoffstadt dons his DJ Daddy Trance moniker to rework the title piece. The BPMs rise, the breaks extend and drops fall from great height.

☎ Connect ☎
https://soundcloud.com/tjade-de-vries
https://soundcloud.com/bordelloaparigi

INCOMING : Tjade - Voyager #BordelloAParigi

After delivering a masterpiece for the last melopee compilation "RetroFutur", Vuta is back with an incredible body release ! 

"Crystal Hero" & "Aerie" are two Italo body tracks, perfectly representing the current dancing Italo. "Filta Poly" is a sweet track, more sensitive, but always keepin' the dancefloor bubbling ! 

Plexi Glass is back and this time, they drop a movin' early trance remix of "Crystal Hero". The power of Trance, without falling into "cliché", mastered by the French duet! 

Neurotiker, our favourite Brazilian artist, is back too. 
He magnifies the release with an EBM remix of "Crystal Hero". 

Dark, Dancefloor, Hovering !

Vuta - Crystal Hero

PREMIERE: Vuta - Crystal Hero (Plexi Glass Remix)

Lennart's back on Ritmo Fatale with that killer Italoish Exposé edit for the dancefloor!

With its catchy hook, euphoric drops, and flawless progression, this belter's gonna blow your mind and take you to the point of no return!

Mix by Endrik Schroeder

FREE DOWNLOAD

Lennart - Fatale Recall 12 (Point Of No Return)

Did you ever try to find your friends at a party? The feeling of ecstasy of seeing a familiar face is of the greatest, but look... did you ever also get lost and in the middle of all craziness you find a brand new old friend? Stroka is both at the same time.

The man is slightly more well known for this techno sets, but he's also always been enamoured with house music, and the transition to playing live brought his roots into the fore and what we have is a brand new old face.

Stroka is at the peak of his powers, with several dates booked including the festival The Town.

Stroka - Champagne Feat. Kauan Marco

Beautiful Dancefloor track out of Cameroon - Reworked with a nice building intro and outro

C'est pas Facile (Semi-Detached Disco Edit)

Orb weaver

True Grit – Jonathan Kaspar debuts on Turbo Recordings with a striking take on ‘Hand in Hand’

Read more: https://whenwedip.com/2024/01/premiere-jonathan-kaspar-tiga-kolsch/

Follow: @tiga / @kolsch / @jonathankaspar / @turborecordings

Connect: When We Dip on Spotify - open.spotify.com/user/whenwedip

www.whenwedip.com
YT: youtube.com/user/whenwedip
FB: facebook.com/wwdofficial
IG: instagram.com/whenwedip/
TW: twitter.com/WhenWeDip

Premiere: Tiga, Kölsch - Hand In Hand (Jonathan Kaspar Remix) [Turbo Recordings]

Bubs returns to the series with a pure Italo-Body track called Fanatica. Composed to captivate dreamers and ravers, Fanatica brings you powerful synth-wave basslines and euphoric melodies.

https://soundcloud.com/bubsmusicc

DOWNLOAD: https://hypeddit.com/feinstoff/fanatica

Mastered by Mathis Kolkoz at Golden Claws Studio

FREE DL

FREE DL: Bubs - Fanatica

Gleams

RETROFUTUR is back !

Melopee's second compilation, like the first one, brings together on a single release a wide range of artists and musical styles that we love and which inspire us: Cosmic Italo, Italo Disco, Italo Body Music, Trance, Electronica, Nu Rave, Nu Dance ...

You will find regular artists from the label and many new incomers just as talented here. 30 tracks... 34 artists... to perfectly represent the futuristic vision of the owl and bring a new breath to electronic music.

PREMIERE: Panthera - Femme Future [MELOPEE]

✦ PREMIERE : Vaälha - Odyssey (Club Mackan)
✦ Release date : 02.15.24

We begin our retro futuristic journey into 2024 with a brilliant EP by french DJ and producer Vaälha. Through dark soundscapes, mean synthesizers and heavy percussion, this Odyssey will make you feel like the main character in any sci-fi movie exploring the vast unknown space or an alien planet far from home.

To make this journey a little safer, we brought along three talented producers; Panthera, My Secret Playground and Austher, to guide us through eventual parallel dimensions and alternate realities.

With their own interpretations of what an ‘Odyssey’ could be like, Panthera opted for what we think is a modern EBM interpretation of reality. While this reality may seem like a stripped off version of reality, don’t be fooled! There’s an intricate amount of detail waiting to be explored.

My Secret Playground turned ‘Laser Shooting’ into an acid trip, exploring possible and parallel dimensions which seems both creepy and hauntingly beautiful, by adding additional melodies to the original.

Austher turned ‘Clear Mind’ into a real powerhouse. A very adventurous powerhouse that despite all the power, feels somewhat more optimistic. If there was any fuel missing in the tank, it’s because Austher’s version used up all of it.

✦ Connect :

Vaälha
https://soundcloud.com/vaalha
https://www.instagram.com/vaalha___/

Club Mackan
https://soundcloud.com/clubmackan
https://www.instagram.com/clubmackan/
https://clubmackan.bandcamp.com/

☄️ BUY ☄️

PREMIERE : Vaälha - Odyssey (Club Mackan)

A collaboration with darkwave trio Haunt Me from Texas. A trilingual darkwave song in Korean, Spanish, and English about being a minority living in a white dominant christian society.

죄를진
이 도마뱀
내 눈물이
끄찌안아오

해질녘부터 새벽까질 내
등을 부러뜨려
내 이름까지 바꿔벌려도
세상은안바껴

Deprived even when i feel alive
I’m just a fiend to crucify

Me odias sin razón
Pero no conoces mi corazón
Tienes miedo de lo que no sabes
Nos ves como animales

Deprived, even when we feel alive
We are the fiends they crucify
Always a cold and darker night
When there’s a price to stay alive

A price to stay alive…

Deprived, even when we feel alive
We are the fiends they crucify
Always a cold and darker night
When there’s a price to stay alive


credits

written by past self and Haunt Me 
Artwork by æther 
Mixed and mastered by Larry Bautista

past self x Haunt Me- Sinner (Pecador​/​죄​인​)

Here at Bordello, the hot season has already arrived. Championing this warmth is Italy’s very own Hey Cabrera! The Turin based dynamo melds elements of electro disco, italo and house to create a uniquely aromatic blend of dancefloor joy. Clean drum patterns, claps and hi-hats are at the foundation of “Italo Void”. From these percussion points, a bold and ensnaring melody takes flight; glimmering synthlines shining from beginning to end. Fellow Bordello mainstay, Lauer arrives to bring his own analogue sound to the title piece. Accentuating that irrepressible tune, piano keys give extra ballast with a touch of late evening romance as we wait for the sun to come up. The flip transports us to Scandinavia for some unrequited love. Although “Forelskelse” may mean unexplored passions, this track is brimming with emotions. Burning with a smouldering energy, ingredients from disco to house combine to produce a wonderfully uplifting work. David Bay, of Zissou Records fame, closes with his interpretation of “Forelskelse”. A measured introduction gives way to those addictive notes of the original, Bay stripping back the samples to allow the instruments to sing. A soundtrack to see us into a magical summer.

https://soundcloud.com/hey_cabrera

In stores April 15

Buy: https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/hey-cabrera-italo-void-12/

Hey Cabrera! - Forelskelse

Matteo Mussoni and Nicola Zucchi were raised on the 1970s and early 80s disco romance. The duo founded Sparkling Attitude by channelling their shared love of music machines and mirrorballs. Their debut EP draws on the magic of Italo disco, the silver screen's synthesiser soundtracks and the Italian coastline's open stretches. “Dov’eri Sabato Sera” recounts the tale of unrequited love; youth, possibility and dashed hopes play out to a crisp rhythm and wistful melodies. Those heart-strained notes then take the limelight for the instrumental version, analogue strings soaring to impassioned heights. The flames keep burning on the flip with “Melodico Romantico”. Disco-infused, bold and brazen beats are made up of dark rouges and effervescent greens as breathy vocals whisper. Mussoni and Zucchi dive deep into their machines for the curtain close. Inspired by Japanese culture, made in Italy, daring key stabs and astral echoes are draped in a late-night groove for this glittering finale. Joyous sounds from a Sparkling Attitude.

PREMIERE: Sparkling Attitude - Dov'eri Sabato Sera [BORDELLO A PARIGI]

Here are four heartfelt and evocative tracks from the maestro Johannes Klingebiel for DF004.

We are huge fans of Johannes' music, including his past releases on labels such as Traum Schallplatten and Beats in Space. It's our honor to feature some of his music on Dreaming Forever; tracks like these were the inspiration behind the label's inception.

Lots of love,
DF x

https://dreamingforever.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/klingebiel
https://soundcloud.com/dreaming-forever-1360033

PREMIERE: Johannes Klingebiel - Right Now [Dreaming Forever]

https://thenewromantics.bandcamp.com/album/one-kiss-dont-hear-you-laughing-now

01 One Kiss

Matteo Mussoni and Nicola Zucchi were raised on the disco romance of the 1970s and early 80s. Channelling their shared love of music machines and mirrorballs, the duo founded Sparkling Attitude. Their debut EP draws on the magic of italo disco, the synthesizer soundtracks of the silverscreen and the open stretches of the Italian coastline. “Dov’eri Sabato Sera” recounts the tale of unrequited love; youth, possibility and dashed hopes play out to a crisp rhythm and wistful melodies. Those heart-strained notes then take the limelight for the instrumental version, analogue strings soaring to impassioned heights. The flames keep burning on the flip with “Melodico Romantico”. Disco infused, bold and brazen beats are made-up in dark rouges and effervescent greens as breathy vocals whisper. Mussoni and Zucchi dive deep into their machines for the curtain close. Inspired by Japanese culture, made in Italy, daring key stabs and astral echoes are draped in a late-night groove for this glittering finale. Joyous sounds from a Sparkling Attitude.

In stores April 22

https://soundcloud.com/sparklingattitude

Sparkling Attitude - Melodico Romantico

Melodico Romantico EP

Sparkling Attitude - Galaxy Express

The Italian duo Matteo Mussoni and Nicola Zucchi were raised on the disco romance of the 1970s and early 80s. Channelling their shared love of music machines and mirrorballs, the duo founded Sparkling Attitude resulting in the Melodico Romantico EP on Bordello A Parigi earlier this year.

https://soundcloud.com/sparklingattitude
https://www.instagram.com/sparkling_attitude/

Bordello A Parigi

Bordello Radio #166 - Sparkling Attitude

Remix of Sparkling Attitude's 'Dov'eri Sabato Sera' by the Italian masters Daniele Baldelli and Dionigi.

Buy: https://bordelloaparigi.bandcamp.com/album/doveri-sabato-sera-daniele-baldelli-dionigi-remix