As promised a couple of weeks ago, here is the guest mix from Mr Vunk. He hasn’t supplied a tracklisting for us but trust me, this is wall to wall with genuine Italo Disco hammers, most of which I don’t recognise anyways. No re-edits, no dubs, this is heavy on the vocals with tight as hell mixing; one for the party and for the trainspotters!
13 Comments
i have heard alot of Italo records in my day and many of them I enjoyed, but I must be missing something with these tunes… The mix is tight in the pocket but Im thinking thses records just arn’t for me.
Maybe im not familiar enough with the culture and what not. ANy one know good resorces to futher investigate the genre?
man, there’s so many different kinds of italo out there. it’s really rough to get an idea about any of it. there’s a good bit of stuff that runs through the old CBS (now Intergalactic FM) that touches on different bits of it. personally, my taste in it is directly influenced by the old mixes with early house, disco, and italo all tossed together. but then the more vocal pop type songs like many in this mix have their moments, such as the track around 18 minutes which is bad as fuck.
it’s really hard for us to get into this stuff as it just doesn’t exist in pgh record stores. had we lived in chicago in the 80s, maybe we would have a better feeling for it since a lot of it was imported and played on the radio and in clubs. but that never happened in pgh, and our knowledge of older stuff is much more influenced by soul music.
around 18 minutes that is bazooka one of the best italo’s ever made lol
Poor Rudi, he really didn’t deserve that.
I like italo stuff, but I wouldn’t be a freak for it like some. do like that Bazooka track a lot, also digging the cover of Chambers Brothers’ Time Has Come Today. I came across that record recently actually but didn’t like the idea of a euro-disco cover of such a classic soul track, so I passed, it def works though! 🙂
thanks for the mix
yeah that is a hell of an italo track for sure. i’m gonna be on the lookout for that one! i’m not the hugest italo buff, but i liked this mix quite a bit. lots of solid joints i had never heard before…..
Poor Rudi indeed, I think Jack Charlton summed it up best at the time:
“If he’d have spat at me I’d have chinned him”. Classic.
Mix is great too!
yeah, just listening now. sounds great so far.
It’s all about Rambles – I Want to go Where You Go at around 50min mark for me. amazing song.
oops, wrong track ha. its Bandeaux – Black and White I’m on about. it’s even rarer than Rambles. 🙁
If there’s one thing I love, it’s an Italo hammer.
That Bandeaux song is the opening track on FD’s Italo Fetish mix. So good.
Italo is not always my thing (I own some) but I’m gonna give props to this guy for putting together records well. I still appreciate the technicalities. SOLID!
Well into this.
A load of records I’d not heard before on there.