Acid Man wrote: Still not getting this italo thing....
I've really been really trying aswell it's almost as if they know i am enjoying it and then they go and put this horrible synth or some stupidly bad singing in it just to ruin it.... some silly money exchanging hands for it aswell p *** I'm with you on this I think, Paul. The slightly weird thing is that I am quite a fan of the stuff which has been *influenced* by so-called Italo - I-F, Passarani and the Nature/Pigna things in general and more (inc. some Viewlexx). I say so-called, 'cause when I were a lad - admittedly, that was about 50 decades ago - Italian dance music was basically straight-up and quite 'black' disco. All I need to say is Change (and other Mauro Malavasi projects) for you to know what I'm meaning. That group was a start for Vandross and Jocelyn Brown after all. And of course one must mention Moroder. It wasn't this 'so-naff-it's-good-Casio-made-electronic-teen-disco'! Anyway, I know I'm being slightly harsher than I mean to be and not entirely serious. But in general, also, I'm not feeling it. And perhaps the bigger problem is that people who *are* feeling it, seldom play what they regard as the really good stuff so I can get some sort of education in my idiot head about it! Alex, I don't think you dropped any in Public Life did you?!? ;-) I can't remember the last DJ who bends my ear about Italo, who played an Italo track out. Rick Hopkins (Haywire) is a rare exception. Ken
