ARTIST...: Boys From Patagonia
TITLE....: Rimini '80 / It's So Exciting
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: International Feel
CAT.NO...: IFEEL020
GENRE....: Disco
TIME.....: 12:19 min
SIZE.....: 28,2 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Full Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/05/07
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net
TRACKLIST
01) (07:20) Rimini '80
02) (04:59) It's So Exciting
Davide Armour & Philippe Mascerano are cousins, separated by the hemispheres, but
joined together by their love of vintage synthesizer's, tacky Italian nightclubs and
San Remo tinged pop.
Based in central Italy (Davide) and Patagonia (Philippe), their musical bond was
formed as young teenagers, when Philippe's father got a Yamaha CS-80 as part of a
publishing advance (he went on to became a minor Italian pop songwriter and taught
the boys everything they know about formaggio, the special ingredient that is so
vital to Italian pop!).
Enthralled by the summer nightclub culture on the Rimini coast and Corona's "Rhythm
of the Night", they started playing together in teenage bands and spending every
spare moment on the CS-80 in Mascerano senior's studio (hey, this is starting to
sound like the story of a Fourth Division Daft Punk).
Finally hitting the big time with one major hit, Phillipe's father decided it was
time to get out of Europe and head to the solitude of the Patagonian plains to make
new age music and so the boy's dreams got put on hold, until faster computers, modern
software and the internet allowed them to start collaborating together again across
the Atlantic.
The result is two seductively hypnotizing tracks that reference all the best (?) bits
of Italian Pop and Balearic Culture, starting with the chunkily robust slow-mo synth
brass of "Rimini '80" and followed by the cheeky (or is that tongue in cheek) pan
flute boogie porn of "It's So Exciting".
Oh and Phillipe's father when on to collaborate with Andreas Vollenweider and you
can't get much more Balearic than that!
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