Nostalgia - Piero Umiliani (4/4) sampled instrumental 

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Nostalgia - Piero Umiliani (4/4)sampled instrumental

Stop what you're doing and give us your full attention because Hell Yeah mainstay My Friend Dario's new album Senza Estate is going to define the sound of summer 2024. It's an eclectic eight-track collection that has something for everyone and is inspired by dreamy Italian soundtrack composers Piero Piccioni and Umiliani.

Curveball Italian talent Dario is a real dance floor don who collides acid, nu-disco, breakbeat and electro. His take on Balearic is unique and always sends dance floors wild, as proven with his last outing Food For Woofers Vol 2 earlier in the year. His new album is the sound of life by the Mediterranean, Balearic audio pleasure for daytime dreaming and nighttime dancing with vocal tracks written and performed by the UK's Space Echo Records associate Darene Obika.

Dario hails from Catania on the island of Sicily and his inspiration for Senza Estate, which translates as 'without summer,' was an imaginary holiday, weekends at the seaside, car journeys in the sun, relaxing sunsets and late-night dancing. "For five years, I worked in a shop six days a week so despite living on a Mediterranean island I could never enjoy these things. Instead, I locked myself in the studio and jotted down the ideas, sensations, melodies and rhythms I had about another lost summer."

'Keep On Cruising' is a downtempo opener with innocent synths that are filled with hope and promise for the warm months ahead. 'Zingarella' is a wide open sea view with wispy pads, seductive flutes and jazzy melodies that bristle with life and the tropical title cut gets more dancey on shuffling broken beats and radiant synth glows. There's a seductive laid-back cool to the tumbling keys of 'Marittimo' and 'What You Need' is a horizontal groove with loved-up vocals, 'Falò' pairs sensual acoustic guitar with work with pillowy drums and 'Il Pianeta Proibito' layers up sci-fi synths and stuttering bass into a bubbly sound that leads to cosmic take-off. 'Acid Panorama' is the melancholic closer which hints that the summer sun is setting one final time after weeks of carefree fun.

But the good news is, you can repeat the joys of My Friend Dario's masterful Senza Estate over and over again.

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My Friend Dario - Keep On Cruising

1  I Am Back	                Ennio Morricone	                        Il Ritorno Di Ringo 
2  The Return of Ringo	Ennio Morricone/Maurizio Graf     Il Ritorno Di Ringo    
3  Ritorno All'inizio	        Ennio Morricone	             Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura
4  Le Retour (Sur Le Nom De Bach) 	  Ennio Morricone	 Le Professionnel
BED   5  Infanzia, Evoluzione e Ritorno	  Ennio Morricone 	 L'Umanoide       
6  I'm Back Home	                                  Jack Ashford         Blackjack	
7  We're Back  	                                  Bobby Brown 	 Ghostbusters II
8  He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)  Alice Cooper/Harry Manfredini    
         Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
9  Back From The Dead	  The Coupe De Villes (John Carpenter)   
         Waiting Out The Eighties
10  The Dead Return	J. Peter Robinson	Return Of The Living Dead II	
BED 11 Resurrection I & II	        Nico Fidenco	               Zombi Holocaust	
12 Return		                        Joseph LoDuca	       The Evil Dead       
13 Earth-Air		                        John Carpenter	        Sentinel Returns	
14 The Guest Returns		        Steve Moore	                The Guest 2
15 Russian Renegades Return	Tangerine Dream	        The Soldier	  
16 Suite Slide Return	        	Giorgio Farina/Goblin	Discocross		BED   17 They Return	Antoni Maiovvi	Shadow Of The Bloodstained Kiss     18 Il Ritorno Della Banda - Parte II	Calibro 35  	  Ritornano Quelli Di...  
19 Ritorno In Macchina                   Sandro Brugnolini	  Utopia
20 Un Giorno In Piu - Ritorno.        Gianni Ferrio	          Tony Arzenta Big Guns  21 Ritorno		                          Gianni Marchetti	  Top Crack 
22 The Stranger Returns      Stelvio Cipriani  Un Uomo, Un Cavallo, Una Pistola
23 Return of Django   	       Piero Umiliani                     Il Figlio di Django
24 Title Song  Marcello Giombini	E' Tornato Sabata...Hai Chiuso Un'Altra Volta!      BED 25 Magic Chase   Lalo Schifrin                         Return From Witch Mountain 
26 I'm Back		      Gordon Staples                            Mean Johnny Barrows            
27 Disco                        Henry Mancini The Return Of The Pink Panther 
28 The Space Patrol's Return   Peter Thomas		     Raumpatrouille Orion       29 Main Title                             Joseph Koo                       Return Of The Dragon	
30 Return of Godzilla		   Akira Ifukube	             Shin Godzilla 
31  Main Theme 	                   Johnny Dankworth           Return From the Ashes   
32 Return of the Pharoah	   Yo La Tengo		        Game 6
33 Return of the Dream Collector      Terry Riley	        No Man's Land 
BED  34 Return		                      Edouard Artemyev 	Solaris
35 The Return of a Stranger	              Lionel Cohen	        Inside Man 
36 Return to Wonderland                    Danny Elfman          The Circle
37 Retour A L'amour  	 Cerrone                                         Brigade Mondaine 2 
38 Always Returning II    Brian Eno                                      More Music For Films
39 New Life                     Brian Gascoigne                           Phase IV
40 Metamorfosi               Ennio Morricone       La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso

EVR II The Sequel 01-09-2025

"If you didn't know, Hell Yeah is the Italian label hell-bent on releasing the best modern disco(ish) you can find. Sometimes it's blissed out and Balearic, sometimes it's squelchy and down-right weird and sometimes it's the sort of elongated, tribal stuff that works dancefloors into a salacious frenzy" (Kristan J Caryl - DJ MAG January 2014)


Hell Yeah Recordings, a descendent of leading Italian dance label Mantra Vibes is an Italian-based electronic music label active since 2006. Releasing from Ferrara, Bologna, and Amsterdam and led by Marco Gallerani “peeDoo” (A&R), the label bases its philosophy on a diversity of artists and recording experiences tied together by a common vision of what defines quality progressive recording. 

With a sound as diverse as the artists it represents, Hell Yeah does not limit itself to the constraints of genre but packs a complex palette of sounds ranging from techno to minimal-nu-rave to electro-funk and tech house.  Artists as varied as Radio Slave, Santos, Umek, Oliver Koletzki, Congorock, 3iO, Crimea X and the mighty Balearic Gabba Sound System have helped establish Hell Yeah’s eclectic sound, a distinct take on party music loaded with a sonic Balearic feel good vibe that has made press around the world hail Hell Yeah as a label to watch, always

Hell Yeah aims to build upon its current reputation as a leading Italian Electronic Music play, overseeing the release of a series of progressive productions that straddle genres, defy conventions and blur barriers between listening and dance music. Stemming from Hell Yeah’s initial graphic identity formed by Neverending’s Rocco “the Boghe” Pezzella, new mind-bending web and label artworks from Italian artist Andrea Amaducci and the Berlin-based Ice Cream For Free collective promises complete visual as well as aural stimulation.

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marco@pplayground.com

Soundtrack Composer, Founder of NYC-based soundtrack band MORRICONE YOUTH since 1999, and Producer/Host of film soundtrack radio programs MORRICONE YOUTH on EAST VILLAGE RADIO (2007-2014 & 2025- Present) and MORRICONE ISLAND on WFMU 91.1 FM in NYC/NJ (2014-2024)

Devon Goldberg (aka Devon E. Levins) is a composer, producer, musician and founding member of New York City-based MORRICONE YOUTH which performs and records live scores to silent films and midnight movies. Devon has been a bandleader, DJ and avid soundtrack record collector since the 1980s performing and recording with Creedle (Cargo/Headhunter), aMiniature (Restless), rust (Atlantic), Pretendo (Country Club) and 80s hardcore band Abeyance, amongst others, and produces and hosts weekly "film soundtrack" radio programs MORRICONE YOUTH conceived in 2007 on EAST VILLAGE RADIO and MORRICONE ISLAND on WFMU 91.1 FM in New York City and New Jersey (2014-2024). In 2019, Devon composed the original score for director Kire Paputt's second feature length film The Last Porno Show, which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. The score was performed by Morricone Youth with help from Cochemea Gastelum, Sean McCaul, Karen Waltuch and Scott Hollingsworth. 

Morricone Youth is a collective of musicians formed in New York City in 1999 with the mission statement to compose and re-interpret "music written for the moving image" (i.e. film and television soundtracks and library music) who have performed all over the world, from CBGB's and the top of the World Trade Center to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, MassMoCA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art and The Sydney Festival as well as supporting Italian prog soundtrack legends Goblin on their 2017 North American tour. The band has live scored fifteen silent films and midnight movies including Nosferatu, Enter The Dragon, Foxy Brown, Eraserhead and La Planete Sauvage and in 2016 embarked on an ambitious 15-vinyl series for each film, the 1st seven of which have been released for George Miller's "Mad Max," Goerge Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans," Lotte Reineger's "The Adventures of Prince Achmed," Mario Bava's "Danger: Diabolik," Alfred Hitchock's "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" and Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin." The band's music has been used in film, television, documentaries and video games over the past 25 years. 

In 2024, Devon composed the score to psychological horror film Eight Eyes from director Austin Jennings (director/co-writer of Shudder’s The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs) which world premiered at the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, shot on 16mm and Super 8 on location in Serbia and Macedonia and starring Scream Queen Emily Sweet (V/H/S ‘99). The original score is composed by Devon Goldberg and performed by Morricone Youth featuring Sami Stevens (Sunnyside Records, Norah Jones) on vocals. The film was co-produced by Vinegar Syndrome as the Blu-ray reissue label’s first entirely original production and is distributed by Shudder in North America and Donau Film in Europe. Trailer: https://youtu.be/NIGQyB2smFo?si=2qIzVf1fS76P_hjj

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