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Book about the History Of Italian Dance Music (1965-1995)
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6 months ago

Vincenzo Corigliano “Sometimes soldiers would arrive at Cassero in Bologna in full uniform. In the basement, we had a room called the ‘meson’, where they would find clothes, heels, wigs, so anyone could transform and be themselves for a night, then change back and return to their everyday life in Bologna. The music was also cutting-edge for the time. The dancefloor was small, but the musical vista was huge: early house, disco and even pop got played. We were hungry for newness and organised parties inspired by international scenes in London and New York. We also created Miss Alternative: an annual competition where people dressed up using recycled materials. You could turn anything, even an umbrella, into a dress. The goal was to raise funds for the fight against AIDS. The event grew so much that it had to be moved outside of Cassero due to the turnout, and guests like Amanda Lear and Jean Paul Gaultier came to host it. Even I won Miss Alternative a couple of times! The fundamental rule? A minimum heel height of 12 cm.”

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@spazioaltrove_ 🩷 taken in Bologna, Italia by @discoteca_book

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13 days ago

Had a lovely chat with my dear friend @ivan_smggh_jmm about his ‘strange’ relationship with Italian dance music ahead of the @discoteca_book release in 2027

Grazie Ivan for the great stories ❤️ by @discoteca_book

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19 days ago

Corrado Rizza: 'Mais (Music And Idea System) was a big room with wooden floors and walls made with mirrors, which was managed by Massimo Buonerba and Piero Roberto. It was located behind Piazzale Flaminio, on Via Cesare Beccaria, in Rome near the Goody Music record store. It’s difficult to describe the feelings I had when I went into these places and listened to that music, but I will always carry those moments in my heart as the best of my life. I remember long afternoons watching Francesco Bonanno mix at Mais, enchanted by the extraordinary things he did with two Denon turntables. He had learned the technique from the legendary Robert Drake, an American DJ, sound engineer and friend of Nile Rodgers. Robert was the one who brought mixing techniques to Rome, the methods that so many of us had been trying to understand for so long: how to count beats, find the time and really understand the music'.

Video taken by YT channel: Ventanni Di Roma By Night 🙏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlNU_nRFS0o taken in Roma, Italy by @discoteca_book

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24 days ago

Daniele Baldelli, Grace Jones and Mozart at Baia Degli Angeli (1978).

@liamjnabb : There was a really massive scene that expanded around Rimini and as far as Venice which is really quite a rural area. There aren’t any cities there but a lot of clubs. Baia Degli Angeli was one of the biggest clubs back then, it had a 2,000 capacity and you could meet stars like Grace Jones.

@djdanielebaldelli : To start with, we were playing exactly in the Bob and Tom style: disco music and Philadelphia. Then we started playing more strange records. At the end of the evening I started to play (at 5am) Ravel’s ‘Bolero’, which lasted 12 minutes. I played Pink Floyd, Jean Luc Ponty, electronic effects or African chant acappellas over the top. Also, maybe I started playing something electronic in between and things like Eddy Grant’s ‘Time Warp’.

@tullio_de_piscopo_official : I knew DJs like Mozart and Daniele Baldelli and all the other DJs during the 1970s as I was the first one to play disco music and to do the first Italian rap with ‘Stop Bajon’. My friends were DJs and radio presenters. I was an influence on them, but they were also an influence on me with all their ideas. taken in Rimini Italy by @discoteca_book

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2 months ago

Had a great chat with @marcoshuttle about the Italian club scene in the 90s and how differently it evolved across the country. We talked about the important role of resident DJs in shaping a club’s musical identity and how that has influenced the development of distinct sounds. Thanks Marco for the great stories ✨

More to read in the upcoming book DISCOTECA 1965-1995 out in 2027

Follow the page @discoteca_book for updates on the releasing date 🩵 by @discoteca_book

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2 months ago

PASSARANI & MONTEDURO - Roma Meets Detroit EP (1993)
@marco_passarani “I’d already been making music for a few years prior to the emergence of the rave scene. At the time, I was using the Commodore Amiga, but my most cherished memories come from the tracks I created for what became my first EP, Roma Meets Detroit, which eventually came out on Detroit’s Generator label. I did that EP with my friend Matteo Monteduro and I actually got to mix one of the tracks in a proper studio, thanks to Luca Cucchetti, who was a well-known radio presenter on the Roman scene. His help was crucial in helping me get my shit together cos I was the youngest kid in the radio crew, always hanging around and pestering the more experienced DJs. The record was released on Generator because I just couldn’t see anyway of getting my music out in Rome. I met Alan Oldham, who ran the label, when Underground Resistance played in Rome. They needed a Roland SH-101 and I happened to have one. Unfortunately, the party got cancelled but it meant we had a lot of time to hang out together. I gave him a tape of my music, which he loved, and that started my relationship with Detroit. That tape turned into this EP”. taken in Rome, Italy by @discoteca_book

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3 months ago

Miki & Farfa
@miki_the_dolphin "When I first started my residency at Club Imperiale, in Tirrenia, in 1990, I’d be playing all kinds of stuff. There were numerous times that I had to play for 12 hours, or sometimes even playing for as long as 20 hours at a time. Not because I was hired to play for so long, but because it was hard to find DJ partners who were a good fit to play these long sets with the music we had in mind every weekend. Even though I got used to playing these long stretches, I started to look around, with the art director Alessandro Esse, for reinforcements and I remembered these two crazy guys who were playing great music at La Barcaccina in Livorno: Roby J and Francesco Farfa. So I approached them and said, “Listen we don’t know each other, but you play great music and I have lots of people coming to Imperiale; why don’t you come down and play one morning?” So they came and we did a few mornings together. I mostly shared the mornings with Francesco at the beginning but when the owner Roberto Pannocchia wanted to do the 20 hours, meaning till Sunday at 8pm, Roby joined us regularly too.

@francescofarfaofficial “The Italian progressive movement literally exploded out of nowhere. Myself and the other DJs in this scene started to play all over, with as many as four or five gigs a week. Loads of clubs that had been playing commercial music, started throwing big progressive parties, with anywhere up to 5,000 people, usually on two floors, one house and the other progressive. People travelled from all over Italy. It was nuts”. taken in Italy by @discoteca_book

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4 months ago

SUEÑO LATINO - Sueño Latino (1989)
@andreagemolotto "Sueño Latino’ was born in a random way. Massimino Lippoli after a recent trip to New York with Angelino Albanese where they found a bunch of interesting records and he played this masterpiece by Manuel Göttsching, ’E2-E4’. The effect of those sounds amazed not only us but also the crowd in the club. So we decided to go straight to the studio the following week to do what initially should have been little more than an edit. We sampled ’E2-E4’ and since I’ve always been fascinated by Brazilian rhythms, we added some of these elements, then the piano (typical of the house music of the moment) and a sensual erotic Spanish vocal. That was how ‘Sueño Latino’ came about.” by @discoteca_book

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5 months ago

GAZNEVADA - IC Love Affair 1983
@_ciropagano_ “We started in 1979 as a punk band with a cassette-only release. By the time we’d come to the next release our sound had
already moved on considerably, much more new wave. We weren’t really a punk
band any longer. Then in ’82 something changed, our music direction pivoted
awards a completely new world. We went electronic, bought sequencers, synths
etc. ’IC Love Affair’ was effectively an announcement of a new direction. Although
it’s described as Italo-disco, it doesn’t really sound like a typical Italo record
because it contained sounds that scarcely existed at the time.” by @discoteca_book

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5 months ago

BOB & TOM at BAIA DEGLI ANGELI

Gianni Zuffa: “Bob Sison and Tom Day were the first resident DJs in Baia Degli Angeli (Gabicce Mare). Their success was due to the fact that they were the first to work in a club that was ten years ahead of anyone else”.

They played for three seasons in total, with Tom Sison leaving in July 1977 and Bob Day completing the season before returning back home to New York. But what happened to the legendary pair after they returned to the United States remained a mystery for decades. Nobody knew where they went or what they did (or, even if they were really DJs). A few years ago, a DJ called Max Di Giovanni spent years trying to track them down. Eventually he found them.

Thomas Victor Sison was born in 1951 in New Brunswick, NJ. He came from a Filipino family. He found his way to New York sometime in the early 1970s and started going to gay parties, like 12 West, the Flamingo and the Cock Ring. He DJed a bit, while working in a gay pizza parlour on Christopher Street. It’s through his club adventures that he met Bobby Day.

Robert K. Day was born in Winthrop, near Boston, Mass. in 1952. Bob attended high school in his hometown before going on study economics at the University of Mass. He discovered the New York gay club, Flamingo, in the early 1970s and was immediately smitten. After their sojourn in Italy, Bob Day did actually come back for a while in the early 1980s playing at clubs like Cellophane, before finally heading back to the US. Tom Sison never played in Italian clubs again.

Photo courtesy of Luca Santarelli. by @discoteca_book

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