Love Attack! Italo Special Promo Mix

Love Attack! Italo Special Promo Mix by Struboskop on Mixcloud

Check out this mix from STRUBOSKOP. For more information on this Vienna based group check out their Facebook page.

1. Intro - Suspense
2. Scotch - Disco Band
3. Strafe - Set It Off
4. Silver Pozzoli - Around My Dream (Techtrix Re-Edit)
5. INXS - Need You Tonight Mediate (A Jimmy Michaels Mix)
6. Stupid Human - A Straight Head
7. Flowchart - Ask The Boss (Instrumental)
8. Casio Disco Club - Count Your Lucky Stars (Diogenes Club Mix)
8. Round Table Knights & Ogris Debris - Say What? (Struboskop Italopopcorn Remix)
9. Steel Mind - Bad Passion (Instrumental)
10. Queen - Radio Ga Ga (Combo ReEdit)
11. Duke Lake - Do You (Adventures In Disco Edit)
12. Mark Ronson - Record Collection (Perseus Karaoke Mix)
13. My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (Extended Player '89)
14. Giorgio Moroder - I Wanna Rock You
15. Cellophane - Gimme Love (Italo Version)
16. Stromae - Alors On Danse (Struboskop ItaloTech Remix)
17. Peter & The Magician - Love In Rimini
18. Processory - Nightfall (Aeroplane Remix Version 2)
19. The Flirts - Passion (12" Remix)
20. Outro - Pianino

Beautiful Life by Cesario Magnifique

Here's a mix of classics from Cesario Magnifique (Chicago). Get over to his soundcloud account to keep up with his future releases. Thanks Cesario sounds like fun!

Beautiful Life by Cesario Magnifique

1 Computer World - transport '85 (Flemming Dalum edit)
2 Japanese War Game - koto '83
3 Chinese Revenge - koto '82
4 Watch Out - Doctor's Cat '83
5 Stop - B.W.H. '83
6 If Are You Master - Sylvi Foster '80
7 Pertini Dance - S.C.O.R.T.A. '84 (Flemming Dalum edit)
8 Love Dawn - Sylvi Foster '80
9 Beautiful Life - Alex Valentini '85 (Flemming Dalum edit)
10 Bormaz - Hipnosis '83
11 Mister Game - Klapto '83
12 Penguins' Invasion - Scotch '83
13 Arabian Nights - Crazy Gang '83
14 Flood - Sylvi Foster '80
15 Stop - Watch - Hypnotic Samba '84

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Flemming Dalum - The Other Side of Italo

Direct from thenewworck.com check out this dark mix of obscure Italo by  King Collector Flemming Dalum. Be sure to stop over at thenewworck to show them some love. Click here for the original post.

Flemming Dalum - The Other Side of Italo (The New Worck 394)
1. Synthia – Nuit Synthetique (Unreleased Bijou Productions 2007)
2. Hysteric – On Earth (Unreleased Edit)
3. Psyche – Prisoner To Desire (New Rose Records 1986)
4. Bijou – Marine (Unreleased Bijou Productions 2010)
5. James Saunders – Spectra (Rouge Music 1982)
6. El Deux – Wir Tanzen (Gold Records 1982)
7. Casionova – Where Eagles Dare (Unreleased)
8. Francis Rimbert & Frederick Rousseau – Top Machine (April Orchestra 1982)
9. Radar – Una Splendida Emicrania (Wea Italiana Spa 1982)
10. Bijou – Run Stop! (Unreleased Bijou Productions 2008)
11. George Fenton & Ken Freeman – Mobile Unit (Kpm 1980)
12. Rodrick – Love’s Ok Albion Edit (Phase 6 Super Stereo 1977)
13. Radar – Zona Endoten (Wea Italiana S.P.A. 1982)
14. Eva Eva Eva – Invasione Albion Edit (Rifi 1978)
15. Kennyboy – Eastendboy (Folie Des Grandeurs Records Bijou Productions 2005)
16. Psyche – Uncivilized (New Rose Records 1988)
17. The Warlord – Alpha And Omega Albion Edit (Creole 1981)
18. Ap Project – Hyper Gamma Spaces (Arista 1978)
19. Music Makers – Musik Makers (Emi Italiana S.P.A. 1982)
20. Kaméléon – Genocide Hanoben Shizzo Edit (Pro-Culture 1981)
21. Linda Lee – There’s No Matter (Cinevox 1977)
22. Analisi 91 – Disco Magic (Drums 1978)
23. Dee Jay Roby – Dance Not Dance (Young Records)
24. Enigma – Cave Man (Out 1979)
25. Psyche – Unveiling The Secret (New Rose Records 1986)
26. El Deux – Computer-Mädchen (Gold Records 1982)
27. Barbarella – Move In Do It (Fremus Record Edizioni Musicali 1980)
28. Die Partei – Ostafrika (Tausend Augen 1981)
29. Omni – Green Line (Emi Italiana S.P.A. 1980)
30. K. Bytes – Omega Race (F.I.R. Record)
31. Barbarella – The Queen Of Love (Fremus Record Edizioni Musicali 1980)
32. Psyche – The Outsider (New Rose Records 1988)

"Xtro" by Toque

I was delighted when I found this one in my email this morning. These tracks are clearing the cobwebs from my wine addled brain and got me blowing the dust off of this blog feed. "Xtro" from Girlfriend Records is full of weekend goodness and Toque faithfully honors early house, boogie, and electro but still remains relevant and modern. The production is crisp, bright and very danceble. Its rare that I feel I can give a glowing recommendation to all the songs on an EP release but these are artfully done. The title track is postured for more playtime and a larger audience but "Kenny G" and the Xtro (edit) really got me perked. Peep it.

Xtro-EP by Troque

GOMA de MASCAR - O.A.U! Remix

Here is a fun remix of Goma de Mascar that landed in my inbox this morning. The audio is from a video remix from O.A.U! out of Spain. Check it out on soundcloud or download below.

GOMA de MASCAR - O.A.U! remix

Kroma - Sexy Films

In the life of a lover there are some nights you face rejection. And sometimes its because of those sexy films you have been watching. Kroma's Sexy Films perfectly captures that bedroom banter.

You often try to make me upside down
I know you really get pleased

But when I think to your amusing rounds

I tell you ha ha honey
go to sleep

I tell you
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Go to Sleep

Explications
Intimations of affection
Complication

Kroma - Sexy Films

Nini Raviolette - Suis-Je Normale

Nini Raviolette's "Suis-Je Normale" is mischievous, dark and mysterious. The simple drone of a synthesizer pad and percussive, pizzicato blips are all that accompany Nini's bedroom harmonies in this otherwise drumless serenade. The track seems to reside inside an ice box its so chilly.

Nini Raviolette - Suis-Je Normale

O'Gar - Playback Fantasy

There is something truly magical about this track. The arpeggio and drums work together effortlessly to make dancing irresistible. O'Gar's casual vocals are cool and relaxed and the subtle chord changes give the song a feeling of the great expanse. Simple surprises in here with drum pattern changes and the radio deejay interlude bring you back to the era. Check out the video and also how I featured it in podcast 10. Listen past the break to hear how he re-sings the chorus, a reminder of the days before protools choruses.

O'Gar - Playback Fantasy

Italobot Podcast 11 - Wading in Winter Blue

Italobot Podcast 11 - Wading in Winter Blue

01. Venise - Wien Is...
02. Different Faces - Telegraph
03. Atelier Folie - Fashion
04. Amnesie - Turas
05. George Aaron - She's a Devil
06. Steve Doesn't Drive - Woman and Car
07. A.G.F. - Loved By You
08. Roberto Onofri - Let's Go Out
09. Asha Puthli - 1001 Nights of Love
10. Transport - Computer World
11. Gazebo - Chopin
12. Venise - Roissy

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I've been putting in a lot of work just about everywhere but Italobot so I thought I'd get some tracks together this weekend. Looking forward to 2011 I hope to get more of these mixes out there This one is a fun trip through a few different sounds, grooves, and moods. The weather finally started taking a turn around in my part of the world but I still managed to wring out some soggy chilled tracks for this mix. Put on a sweater and don't catch a cold.

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Concorde - Prophet of Life

Prophet of Life is another amazing release from Il Discotto Productions and the team of Vincenzo Giufrè and Massimo Monti. Their work includes Jo Jo's Mind Games, From Halley and more. Prophet of Life  marches, meanders, and plods in a jungle of playful synthesizer squeeks and strings. Its great!

Concorde - Prophet of Life

Jules - I Want To

Here is a seductive and haunting number from 1985. Produced and arranged by Antonio d'Addezio for XYZ Records, Jules' "I Want You" relies heavily on the standard melodic tools of other Italo ballads but still manages to deliver a unique romantic flair.

Jules - I Want To

Happy Belated Birthday Italobot

Our 2nd birthday came and went last month and while I was aware of it I didn't have the birthday presents I would have hoped to give everybody. So I will have to make due with what I have scrounged around the net.

Here is a mix from one of the premier ambassadors of Italo Disco, Flemming Dalum, who has been in the game since the early 80s and has the largest collection of Italo Disco known to the internet. Lately he has embraced the remixing technology of Ableton Live to put out comprehensive megamixes of obscure and rare disco gems.

Flemming Dalum - Cybernetic Disco

Radar - China Darling

Canada had some great electronic disco in the early 80s and a lot of it emits that type of coolness that seems to come with a closer proximity to tundra. This track has a lot of cool elements with an ever present arpeggio rhythm driving a calm groove, wurlitzer chord stabs, and a snide rock vocal. The 'Chinese Rhythm' that often accompanies any song about a woman from China is a bit cliche but otherwise this track is pretty smooth.

Radar - China Darling

Wanexa - The Man from Colours

One of the best productions from the camp of Gianluigi Farina , Francesco Rago, and Monneret De Villard Xenia Olga Anastasia, the crew that produced 'Lectric Workers' 'Robot Is Systematic' and many others. The Psychadelic female vocals and simple synth refrain are driven by droning flanged drums and a dreamy sensibility. The break in this track is a perfect example of how Italo Disco influenced the early pioneers of Techno.

Wanexa - The Man from Colours

She's Gone Away (instrumental)

This song is brutal. Driven by repetitive bass synth arpeggios and chunky layers of guitar and bass. The female female vocals on the hook are infectious and their hints throughout the verse are seductive. Jimy's metallic vocoder voice is a delightful interjection of Italo goodness.

Jimy K - She's Gone Away (instrumental)