Remarkable.
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Caught In Joy — Homeward
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Brilliant!
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Some great examples of eighties Italo Pop/Disco genre of the 1980s, introducing synths and drum machines into pop and dance music.
Matia Bazar - Ti Sento
From the album Melancholia (1985)
Matia Bazar - Amami
From the album Melancholia (1985)
Matia Bazar - Vacanze Romane (1983)
Their signature song that premiered at the 1983 San Remo Music Festival
And…what’s that huge white mystery machine on stage in this Live premiere, way back, in San Remo, in 1983? The huge CRT monitor on top of some module? Seems to be connected to a keyboard in the musicians hands. Maybe a just techy gimmick, maybe some early Olivetti PC in a fancy housing?
This was also a period where Italian companies (Elka, GEM, Crumar, Siel, Jen, Farfisa…) were making state-of-the-art electronic instruments (synths/organs). Competing with the Americans (Moog, Sequential, Oberheim, ARP) and Japanese (Roland, Korg, Yamaha).
The Forgotten Synthesizers Of Marche Region
Hainbach visited the Museo Del Synth Marchigiano in the Marche region, a place packed with Italy’s rarest synthesizers and drum machines.
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Recorded in 1950. Second movement has extended keyboard technique and integrated radiophonics. Very much not endorsing the composer’s apparent pre-war politics but this is pretty amazing.
From fellow forum denizen @matthew.d.gantt ; it’s terrific. Luciano Berio would have loved it. Turns from overlit hyperpop sheen to surprising sonic depths on a dime.
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