Phantom of the Opera

Marzio Vincenzi put out some great Space Disco as "Marzio" in 1980 for EMI Italiana. The cover art alone on this album is enough to get searching eBay for gauntlets and chain mail. If only I was a broadsword wielding barbarian living in a future-desert-wasteland with cybernetic pyramids communicating with other worldly beings...We all can dream right?

Marzio had a helping hand from Romano Trevisani and Fiorenzo Zanotti in production and arrangement. Don't miss out on their work on the very groove-enducing track, "Ask the Boss" by Flowchart. I put this up a while ago and the link went dead due to either inactivity or deletion. I got it back up but please let me know when you come upon a dead link and I'll try to remedy it.

Marzio - The Phantom of the Opera

FlowChart - Ask the Boss

Flowchart - Ask The Boss

My attention had been drawn to ZYX Records recently after doing a discogs search for Flow Chart's "Go Ask the Boss," a disco drenched I tune from 1983. I was a little confused by their seemingly massive reach over Italo releases on discogs but a little more research realized that ZYX did a lot of compilations, best of, and re-releases over the years. So it turns out that "Ask the Boss" was originally released on Maximus. Well, Maximus delivered some serious funky disco cuts. And so my schizo post that was supposed to be a focused survey on a record label has descended into a random assorted selection of stuff.



Regardless of whether they released the originals, the list on ZYX's discogs page is a good sweeping survey of some of the greatest Italo tracks ever, as well as some more obscure ones. Just put some of those titles into youtube and let it rip.

Flowchart - Ask the Boss (download)