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Name: Venice's Disco Elite
Home Page: http://www.myspace.com/bottinski
Member Since: Mar 20, 2008
Rank: 668
Average Vote Received: Needs Minor Changes (3.46, 41 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (3.50, 10 votes)
Rated 1116 releases, average: 3.66
Location: St Mark's – Venice, Italy
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Payment options:
- moneybookers
- paypal
- bank transfer (only within Europe)
All sales are final. Buyer must send payment within 7 days from placing the order. In no case seller will be deemed responsible for losses/damages that may occur during shipping.
SHIPPING CHARGES (updated July 2009)
REGISTERED AIRMAIL ONLY (SIGNED FOR)
EUROPE:
10€ (1 record) 13€ (2-4 records) 19€ (up to 2kg)
AMERICAS, AFRICA, ASIA:
12€ (1 record) 20€ (2-4 records) 30€ (up to 2kg)
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND:
14€ (1 record) 25€ (2-4 records) 35€ (up to 2kg)
Trades welcome, just send me your list. I'm generally interested in late 70s disco and early 80s electro (pre-1985)
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Seller Rating:
100.0% positive
(62 ratings)
Buyer Rating:
100.0% positive
(57 ratings)
bottin's groups (5)
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Reviews:
Clap Rules - Old Sequencer - 30-Jul-09 03:23 AM
"Never Half Step" has a a killer fuzz bass topped by dirty yet subtle synth nuances. Its constructed almost like a old school techno track, but with 100% warm analog disco sounds and snappy beats. Surely the deepest and perhaps the best track in the bunch.
"Braxx" is a more throbbing disco number, with all the appealing features: squeaky vocoder hooks, live bass work and resonating filter work.
"Old Sequencer" starts as one of those walking bass nu-disco tracks a-la Emperor Machine, except that it suddenly goes wrong but in a lovely way: 8-bit downsampling distortions, overdriven guitar licks, self-oscillating filter hisses, finally the original bass line is replaced by an almost German-sounding saturated synth ostinato.
Overall a great record, dirty yet refined, the lack of defining melodic elements, typical of most neo-disco productions, is entirely compensated by the ever-changing synth intricacies and by the effective yet unpredictable structure of each and every track.
A personal favorite and surely of the best disco-inspired records coming out from Italy (my own country by the way) since the last decade or two.
Popularia - Barra - 03-Jun-09 06:20 AM
What actually a great and completely overlooked record. a crazy italo shuffle/boogie track (12/8), with prog/jazz nuances as well as more mediterrean ones. I have no information about the producers and musicians behind this but it reminds me of Sea Breeze by Azoto (Celso Valli) but this is more powerful: it has sparkling italo drums and and lots of synth! The picture on the sleeve is bonkers: like a group picture from a wedding (the locatiob looks like a cheap italian trattoria with plastic plants and flowers) but all the faces but the band members have been erased
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