Morning. apologies if I'm a t**t today, I'm in an extremely bad mood. In fact, next person to ask me to do something at work gets it big time. oh dear.
also, before I start this rant, a disclaimer - I am generally a mis-informed sort of person, and tend to put two and two together and come up with 35 sometimes as I have a 'creative' imagination. please tell me if I am talking a load of s**t - there are far more knowledgeable people on this list than me who may (and should ) be able to correct me - I'm guessing at half of it from what I've been told and read.... >curious to know which ones have found their way into Detroit techno & house >DJ sets and those that have become classics within Detroit parties Erm, do you mean in modern times or days gone by? well, I'm not from detroit and have never been to detroit, but Juan seems to play Martin Circus 'disco circus' quite a bit. mind you, is that an italian record? I think he was french. Pah, I should just go back to bed and be done with it today. I guess some of the influence in the first instance came from US radio jocks (hot mix 5, mojo, who are the others? help!!) picking up the italo stuff on import and tanning it over the airwaves, then it seeped into the clubs (via ron hardy etc?), and then obviously influenced various peoples music. From what I can gather, there was a pretty healthy scene in rimini and lake garda in Italy, this started early, around 76 I think. I'm not sure how some of 'their' records (the records they played, not made) managed to make the jump over the atlantic, but they did somehow. also at this time there wasn't much of what we now call 'italo disco' (ie that electronicy sound) but it was an attitude I think - taking mad new wave records, playing them at the wrong speed etc, basically just sort of creating a wild sound with what you have available to you. My main interest at the minute is finding out how the records got to the US (they never made it to the UK in big numbers) - who was bringing them over and why, who were the first jocks to pick them up? Maybe a knowledgable US person may be able to help. were the hotmix crew/ron hardy/mojo etc first to be playing them? or was there someone before? anyway, back to the question - the classics. maybe someone else is better answering that... (I can't answer any q's relating to detroit!), but obviously Klein & MBO, robotnick, my mine, scotch etc are good places to start. also, web pages and stuff - I never really found a good italo page (I probably haven't looked hard enough), but theres great resources on tigersushi, also really a great place to start is the deephousepage by checking hardy/hotmix mixes out. erm, so is that any help? dunno, hope it is. alex _________________________________________________________________ --------------------- End of message text -------------------- This e-mail is sent by the above named in their individual, non-business capacity and is not on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers. PricewaterhouseCoopers may monitor outgoing and incoming e-mails and other telecommunications on its e-mail and telecommunications systems. By replying to this e-mail you give your consent to such monitoring
