Cosmic Music, Italy, early '80s

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My buddy's got some very nice mixes at ahttp://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com/

i was listening to one of the '79 mixes and there's a tune i need an i.d. on ... i think it's pretty popular as it turns up in lots of mixes but i don't know the title or artist ... the lyrics are "goin to the showdown ..." and there's some "yee haws" and "yippee ki yays" thrown in for good measure. who is that? what's it called?

i'm also really fucking surprised that Harvey mix is considered such an amazing mix. that people are tracking down all the records. is it just how obscure most of it was?

I don't remember because I haven't listened to it in a while, but that may be Goin to a Showdown by the Aural Exciters.

2hrs 56min into it. sounds like an electro Babe Ruth with harps. in both spanish and english. talking about Gloria & We are the children, destino, pueblo, etc

i have a few others but need to relisten to the thing (damn it being 4hrs long! i still haven't made it all the way through it)

Beppe Loda's Typhoon Classics

* Electronic:
Klaus Schulze - Pain
Tangerine Dream - Exit
MC1 - Basic
Jean-Michel Jarre - Arpegiator
Richard Wahnfried - Time Actor
Conrad Schnitzler
Meccanica Popular

* New Wave:
Yello - Bimbo
The Cure - Three
Chris & Cosey - Voodoo
Human League - Being Boiled
Checkpoint Charlie - Das Watusi

* Afro / Percussion:
Babatunde Olatunji - Jingo
Manu Dibango - Weya
Fela Kuti - Sorrow, Tears and Blood
Zaka Percussion - Le Serpent
Claude Nougaro - Locomotive d'or

* Brazilian:
Airto Moreira - Parana
Gilberto Gil - Toda Meninha Baiana
Jorge Ben - Ponta de lanca Africano
Sivuca - Ain't No Sunshine
Luciano Perrone - Samba Vocalizado
Dom Um Romao - Amor en Jacuma

* Soul / Funky / Blaxploitation:
James Brown - Give It Up or Turn It Loose
Carl Holmes - Investigation n.1
Hamilton Bohannon - The Stop and Go
Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun
Gordon's war - Soundtrack
Shaft in Africa - Soundtrack

* Jazz / Fusion:
Tony Esposito - Processione sul mare
Billy Cobham - Stratus
Harbie Hancock - Chamaleon / Hang Up Your Hang Ups
Ralph MacDonald: Jam on the Groove
The Crusaders - Stomp and Buck Dance
Don Cherry - Brown Rice

sounds like an electro Babe Ruth with harps. in both spanish and english. talking about Gloria & We are the children, destino, pueblo, etc

Fuego's "Misa Criolla"

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MySpace URL:

http://www.myspace.com/cosmicdisco

wow um you guys should check out this page -

http://beatbroker.net/mixes.php

for instance:

B.D & T.B.C "Kotorimba" (Equalized Version)
The Ray & John "Day By Day" (Inst)
Righeira "Tanzen Mit Righeira" (Logic Remix)
Walter Martino "Turn It On" (Dub)
Mark Tower "More More More" (Inst)
Niger "Space Opera" (Dance version)
Rare Band "Why Why" (Inst)
HBO "Come With Me" (Inst)
The Flics "Take It Easy" (Inst)
Paul Paul "Burn on the Flames" (Inst)
Jules "In want to..." (Inst)
Tabu' D'Apache "Dont Believe In Love" (Inst)
The Poptown Syndicate "Protection"
Doris Guy "Listen Baby"
Mirage "Change Your Life" (Inst)
Ryan Simmons "Lucky Guy" (edit)
Stig Wollek "Night Driver" (Inst)

i bought this. it's only OK. some of the stuff is great chaotic tribal drumming with heavy echo and african chant, just like you want. some of it is totally lame german/italian new wave. the sound quality is jarringly harsh, not so much that the sound quality is bad, but some of it is extremely loud and dissonant in a way that i'm totally unused to.

i must admit that i really prefer listening to "elaste", "computer incantations...", collectors series 2, "better with a spoonful of leather", the glimmers 1st "serie noire" (much more cosmic than ebm, on recent listens) ... etc etc

i'd say it was "worth it" (it was $35!!!) because i got it with a gift certificate ... otherwise i'd probably have rather bought idris ackamoor or something.

oh and the booklet is total garbage. the italians in there are so NOT style icons, we're talking shit like pudgy travolta-lookin dudes in pegged black jeans / black turtlenecks / wide tan leather belts / white shoes with white socks showing hanging out with mulleted italian chicks wearing stonewashed jeans and fair isle sweaters.

most pictures of the club look totally empty (the booklet claims 5,000 people a night), i'm thinking maybe they used long exposure shots so the people disappeared?!?

i dunno, it's definitely not on par with either of the mancuso "loft" comps or the "paradise garage" box set or any of the various other strut / nuphonic / BBE efforts (three labels that are sooooo much better than the mad overrated soul jazz)

i am interested in the 1st baia della angeli comp on amarkord but volume 2 looks totally hapless. seriously like 2/3rd of it looks like patrick adams / peter brown stuff on salsoul and queen constance and what not ... soooo joey negro circa 2000 ...

is volume 1 of "baia della angeli" any good?

I heard the Baia Della Angeli one done by Mozart and it was very odd/obscure selection, but sonically it seemed more straight-up disco. I think the timeline for Baia is just stuff around 77-78 though.

i would much rather hear this stuff in a mix. i think baldelli really gold-plated some turds in that club.

some of those beat broker mixes are insane

*ahem*

i missed that thread completely, thanks!

I'm really enjoying the latest mix by Chris from Soft Rocks, called "From Our Space to Yours"-- very cosmic, from what I understand about the genre at least.

Grab it here: http://www.coolinthepool.com/radio.html

Ah, this explains something. A record I did in the early '80s sometimes comes up on eBay with the added keywords 'COSMIC DISCO' or 'COSMIC BOOGIE'. The sellers who do that are always Italian. I'd wondered what was meant by the Cosmic part. The tempo of the track is 103 bpm so I guess that might fall into the target range without any repitching being necessary.

what was the record?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3rg0y_state-of-gracetouching-the-times_street

That's When We'll Be Free is great, too.

that track is quite the jam, dubmill

Thanks.

both links to pix of the cosmic club are dead. can't find via google. i want to see!!

this DJ Steve 12" on BIS is pretty awesome.

'A few years ago I took a trip to Europe searching for a new sound. People along the journey had been telling me about this guy from Tropea, Italy called DJ Steve (named after his favourite musician, Stevie Wonder). He's a butcher there by day, but at night he's the DJ at a club called Casablanca (this is all getting a bit ‘Flashdance’…). I made my way to this tiny town in the south of Italy and found DJ Steve. His 12 hour DJ sets opened my eyes. This guy was the real deal. He was playing dubplates, vinyl, cassettes, and reel-to-reels. All special edits he had done over the years. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

In late November of 2011 DJ Steve finally made his first visit outside of Italy and came to New York. He came on my Beats In Space radio show and blew everyone away. It was one of the most listened to mixes of the year. While he was in New York, I was able to record in a few of the dubplates of edits he had done. Those recordings are how we arrived at the release of DJ Steve's "Special Cuts #1 & #2". "Special Cuts A" features low-slung punk-funk bass, vocoder vocals, bluesy guitar and a chugging Balearic-house rhythm. "Special Cuts B" opts for a quirky electro-bossa rhythm, catchy keyboard line, fretless bass and full vocal - you'll think you're listening to an old Italo pop record or something on ZTT from the early / mid 80s. Fantastic!

I want to check that out. The other stuff on BIS so far has been solid.

Whenever I read a story like that I can't help but think it's some made-up in-joke but if it was fake they probably would have made up a catchier name than "DJ Steve."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTC8eisciLQ

Uhhh this stuff is so cool, how am I only hearing about it now?? I love music!

Welcome to the best place on earth

wait, back up a minute 14 years - dubmill was in state of grace!?!? wah, i love that tune so much

well now, isn't this just dandy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T2twJHxiRo
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