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artist: Gino Soccio
album: Out Of My Life
label: Atlantic Records
cat: 786_953-0
year: 1984
genre: Disco
sub-genre: Cosmic Disco, Italo
source: Vinyl
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.97 V2 --Vbr-New -V 2
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 16,1 MB
link: http://www.discomuseum.com/ginosoccio.html
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
A 04:34 Out Of My Life
B 06:25 Turn It Around (Instrumental)
total time: 10:59 min
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│release notes.
Finest spacial italo gems by canadian disco mastermind Gino Soccio!.
About Gino:
Gino Soccio is often mistaken as a European artist. Perhaps because
of his euro-disco sounds? In fact Gino is a French Canadian, who
was born in Montreal and now resides in Quebec.
Gino first gained prominence as a musician in the mid 1970's.
His first sessions of note were under the guise of Kebekelektrik
(pronounced Quebec Electric) who scored hits in 1977 with "Magic
Fly" (predating a version by Space) and "War Dance." Both songs
would be remixed and re-released in 1981 and 1982 on Rio Records.
Moving into the realm of producer in 1978, Gino went to the famed
Muscle Schoals Sound Studios (my cousin's studios) to work with
it's legendary musicians on a disco concept album of rock classics.
The resulting "Witch Queen" was released in 1979 and scored a major
hit with "Bang A Gong."
Still not ready to become a solo artist he continued producing.
Next up was fellow Canadian Karen Silver and her debut album,
"Hold On I'm Comin'." The title track from the 1979 album became a
top ten hit. Both were released on Arista Records in here in the
States.
With both of these successes Gino was ready to step forward as an
artist. Released in 1979, "Outline" became an immediate hit. The
12" single of "Dancer" raced up the charts and landed at number
one. The album spawned two more 12" singles, both of which went Top
Ten in the clubs, "The Visitors" and "Dance To Dance" neither had
the radio impact of "Dancer."
Despite coming into disco near its end, Gino would be one of the
few artists to survive the disco backlash and flourish through it's
darkest period. By the time of his next release, 1980's "S-Beat,"
musical tastes had shifted. This album still had his euro-disco
sound but incorporated elements of the emerging "new wave" of
sounds, as evidenced by the 12" single of the title track. A second
12" single, "Rhythms Of The World," also became a hit, perhaps more
because of a special Disconet remix. The album's sales were good
and established him as a major disco star. And a third single,
"Heartbreaker," made him one of the only disco artists to have
three singles from each of their first two albums chart.
His biggest success came in 1981, just as disco seemed to be dead.
The release of "Closer" brought Gino to a wider more diverse
audience. His previous releases were widely accepted by the close
knit disco community whereas "Closer" brought him acceptance from
the R&B/Black radio stations. The first 12" single, "Try It Out"
was exactly where radio and clubs wanted to be, downtempo. And the
follow-up "Hold Tight" continued in that vein.
Gino, seeing the future of dance music, realized that high energy
was not the sound of the early 1980's. Downtempo and funkier were
the key words. So he proved he could change with the times.
His work with Karen Silver continued with a streak of hits for her.
"Fake" (1980), "Nobody Else" "Set Me Free" (1981) and "Clean Up
Woman" (1982). All of which were packaged with her "Hold On I'm
Comin' " tracks and released on compact disc. For his next solo
album he continued his mid-tempo style with 1982's "Face To Face."
The first 12" single was "It's Alright" which sounds like a
leftover track from the "Closer" sessions, naturally it did well.
The prize of the album was the next 12" single, "Remember," which
was pure euro-pop. It was similar in style and formation to Donna
Summer's "I Feel Love" or Patrick Cowley's "Menergy." Needless to
say it revived high energy dance music at a badly needed time and
was one of the forerunners of the second wave of "disco high
energy" music.
His next release wasn't until 1984 with the 12"-only of "Turn It
Around." Seems American record companies couldn't or wouldn't
invest in another album from him. "Turn It Around" was an immediate
club hit, in a softer vein than what was popular at the time.
Perhaps that was because Gino had tired of trying to make "hit"
records and was now focusing on what he liked to do?
Two more 12" singles followed in 1985 and 1986, "Temptation Eyes"
(not the old Grass Roots song) and "Magic" (not the Olivia
Newton-John song).
By the late 1980's Gino had gone back to being a session player and
most notably a producer. Since then he has kept a low profile, but
one could see another round of his well crafted dance music appear
at anytime, because a great talent can never be held back. Thank
You Mr. Soccio for some of disco's most enduring classics!.
Enjoy!.
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