BEARDO DISCO (finally fixed for vahid) - not idjuts / lindstrom - harvey, rub'n'tug, map of africa

oh man this is good

ohpleasephpleasohplease let this be the one with "Hallelujah" on it.

mike simonetti - 7/18/2005 12:41 AM
how DARE you mention Selzer as your DJ hero and not mention ME. i quit.

mike simonetti - 7/18/2005 12:42 AM
Larry Levan? i'm better than him too...

beardo = doing promotional mixes for lifestyle brands

they were more like a party promoter or something. until recently. aside from the mix CDs, flying squad is the first record they put out I think.

I made all that up.

http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/

-- manute lol (mikeoptin...), November 2nd, 2006 2:34 PM. (sanskrit) (later)

hip is where the hipsters are

voodoo 1 = CRAZY AWESOME

is it bad form to ask how much of that is the original and how much is tweaked? I haven't heard it so I can't tell ....

The Story of the Italian Cosmic sound in 2 minutes:

Italy, 1976: In a luxurious discotheque on the Italian Adriatic coast, every weekend two American DJs called Bob and Tom play records that are just making history in their hometown NYC at the legendary „Loft“. Bob and Tom are resident DJs at the „Baia Degli Angeli“, a gigantic club with various floors, fountains, swimming pools and lots of glitz of the Jet set. After the Baia closes due to a drug raid, Daniele Baldelli, inspired by the „Baia Sound“ starts DJing in a new club called „Cosmic“ in Lazise.

Not only he´s beat-mixing Funk, Soul and early Disco - Baldelli´s sytle is unique: songs are mixed perfectly in a superslow tempo of 80-105 BPM. Cosmic is like a wild LSD trip: Afro mixed with German electronics, percussion solos, Bolero with delay effects, 12“s on 33 instead of 45, 70s Krautrock, Industrial... This way of playing records is absolutely new, and Daniele gets quickly famous. A whole wave of DJs and clubs get inspired by his mixtapes, and soon the whole of northern Italy calls it „Cosmic Sound“.

Unlike Italodisco, Cosmic or „Afrofunky“ was never exported broadly; it has always stayed a local party phenomenon. That’s one of the reasons why it wasn’t really exploited commercially yet like many other 1980ies genres. Today producers as Lindstrom, Prins Thomas or DJ Harvey caught the spirit and labels like Gomma, or Eskimo are deeply inspired and now try to create dance tracks that have a similar atmosphere.

This compilation is a collection of the original music that was actually played at Discoteca Cosmic. It is playful, experimental, harmonic and most of all it is dance music.

it's like a dub of the original - the original has far more vocals. the arrangement has been changed slightly too and some subtle processing has been done. this version is also 100% mixable.

it's a great track

:( i'm so not there. thanksgiving weekend and i won't be in town.

This is the Betty Botox Creed, isn't it?

My copy is in the mail fuck yeah.

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I seldom use the word "bliss".

the thing with these cats i dont dig is that theyre getting to the point where funk and soul diggers are at: theres just not much good material out there that is totally undiscovered. so now we're getting treated to comps and mixes of ridiculously rare, hard to find, and expensive records that i just dont care about even a tiny bit. and the funny thing is that there are a ton of relatively obscure but cheap and easy to find records out there in the disco/early house/italo genres that people just arent playing because people wont sweat their playlists online. its fucking weak. im only interested in hearing good music. if it happens to be rare and obscure, cool. if not, thats cool too.

to be completely honest, i think of disco and house and the like as black music. the way the beardo guys play doesnt give me the impression of black music at all, even when theyre playing records made by black musicians. its the same way those black deejays could play italo and new wave records in a way that made them black music, only now theyre taking black music and making it sound "white". and it just doesnt move me in the same way!

also, id like to point out that i have a very unruly beard.

;)

what do you think these guys have been jacking for years?