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MGMS 002EP
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Mondo Groove introduce Afroderrick EP by Voodoo Sound Club, the brand new 12" release on Mondo Groove. "Afroderrick" is a storming Afrobeat track with special guest legendary Italian trumpeter Roy Paci that originally came out on Guglielmo Pagnozzi's Voodoo Sound Club project's debut CD album on Cinedelic Records, Same, in 2011. The track became kind of a cult during the years with many DJs asking for a vinyl version. And here it is, in its full glory, the original itself opening the B side, followed by a solid breakbeat "Voodoo Strange Fruit Remix" by Detox, with the A side massive with another couple of interpretations, an euphoric house "Fresco Remix" done by Leo "Fresco" Beccafichi, DJ, producer, and collaborator of Italian popstar Jovanotti, and another remix this time in trippy Afro style by heroes Daniele Baldelli and Marco Dionigi.
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MGCD 001CD
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Freedom Fighter: a person who takes part in a resistance movement against an oppressive political or social establishment. Against a backdrop of political and social tensions deriving in large part from racial differences (highlighted by the immigration saga), Devon Miles and Jah Brothers launches their debut album Freedom Fighta. Fully convinced that music is a tool capable of reaching across divides and bridging the gap that threatens our humanity, the Italy based group led by Nigerian producer, singer/songwriter Devon Miles aims to send a powerful message to the masses of hope -- that a better world is possible if only we can unite in spite of our differences, of faith -- that together we can begin to see the good in humanity and work for instead of against each other and of love -- the only antidote to the poison of hate that so threatens our very own survival. A 13-track album, Freedom Fighta is not only a journey through various themes bordering on key social issues that plague our society today but also a rich buffet of sounds and genres in one big melting pot -- kind of like our world! Tracks like "Murderer", title track "Freedom Fighta", "The Journey", "Stand Up For Jah", and "Don't Cry" promise to leave the listener with an after taste tantamount to a sonic orgasm. With rhythms guaranteed to draw you into a cosmic vortex where the heart meets the mind in a perfect combination of groove and message, Freedom Fighta promises to be a pleasant discovery for music lovers all over the world.
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MGMS 001EP
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Artificial Intelligence at 45rpm. Mixes by Andrea Tich, Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi, and DJ Ralf.
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MGLP 109LP
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The Italian Duo Club Paradiso come from diverse and ever-evolving music backgrounds, they started their collaborative project in 2016. Romagna, Adriatic Riviera, is what they call home and also the primal inspiration behind Club Paradiso. Their first album Esotica Erotica Psicotica on Mondo Groove, follows their acclaimed 2017 single Panoramica (MGCP 001EP), and is a wonderful patchwork of colors. Opener "Romagna Tropicale" transports Riviera to a tropical island, "Tuco" mixes arpeggiating lines with a western harmonica and a distant spoken, "Solo Tu" with the voice of Francesca Amati is a sensual, slo-mo synth-pop beauty, and "Echoes" a throbbing deep house number. The B side opens with "Flauto Cosmico", a killer Afro/cosmic track with a folky flute, "Okinawa" has the voice of Niconote, aka the legendary Nicoletta Magalotti of Violet Eves fame, and it's simply a memorable song with an eastern vibe in the music, "La Rabbia Saudita", with a special Daniele Baldelli and Marco Dionigi featuring, is half part Arabic and half part funky, and the closing track, "Mirage", is, yes, like a mirage. You can't miss this.
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MGOP 003-4LP
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Spacesynth, synthpop, space disco: Mondo Groove presents, in cooperation with I-Robots from Opilec Records, Drums Records, a great double LP compilation of groovy Italo disco, funky boogie diamonds from the Italian label from Turin that released many hard-to-find singles in the '70s and early '80s. All tunes are taken from original master tapes. Some are unreleased. Features Gianfracasso Ensemble, Antonella Forte, Olga Melchionda, and more. Also features: Analisi 91, Drums Music Show, Fango, I Mappet, Jam Session, Dublefas, T.N.T., Balthaazar, Joe "Spitfire" Nicosia and C. Industria Musicale, Zauber, and Gialma 3.
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MGOP 002LP
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Reduced pricing, last copies... Repress of the killer Italo disco funk holy grail released on 45rpm single in 1979, available here as a 12". Includes previously unreleased instrumental versions and two alternative versions of "Samedi Soir" by Patricia & Top Secret and Olga Melchionda. "Samedi Soir" is full of funky tropical percussion and basslines, dramatic disco strings, cosmic synthesizers, and infectious piano with seductive male and female vocals sung in French over a very catchy wah-wah and P&P disco funk popping rhythm. Drums Music Show's "Sexy Banana" is a superb crazy Euro disco groovy track with rhythms in a jungle groove and funky percussion breaks; vocals also sung in French. Continue the rediscovery of Italian pearls of the '70s and '80s on Mondo Groove Records -- a follow-up to I-Robots Present Phantom Records (MGOP 001LP, 2018). All tracks are from original master tapes.
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MGLP 107-8LP
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This release on Mondo Groove, Cosmic Temple - The Remixes, is a double-pack of selected tracks from the Daniele Baldelli classic Cosmic Temple, released over six EPs between 2016-2017. There is something for everyone in these new versions: DJ Tennis and In Flagranti paying tribute to pure cosmic sound with their interpretations of "Gandharva" and "Afelio", DJ Ralf transforming "Kosmaro" into a house stomper, Tiger & Woods adding their subtle boogie touch and edit science to "Vhanessa", Clap!Clap! going deep and percussive on "Isotropo Funk", Alkalino tripping Italo-disco with "Inner Light", Club Paradiso in an Afro-Balearic clash on "Joka Joka", Eric Duncan working a deep-techy groove on "Diffrazione", and Marco Dionigi, a frequent production partner of Baldelli, finishing in glory with a brilliant funky take on "Taxon". You can't sleep on this.
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MGLP 105LP
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Mondo Groove present a reissue of Azoto's Disco Fizz, originally released in 1979. Azoto is a project by Celso Valli, one of the most important exponents of Italo-disco. He pioneered the whole Italo sound, with incredibly ahead of their time productions going right back to the '70s. Disco Fizz contains "San Salvador", one of the most covered disco tracks of all time, which has reared its head under countless of remixes and cover versions, however if you dig a little deeper this album is packed full of incredible and timeless Italo disco: "Anytime Or Place" literally jumps out the speakers to get you moving, while "Exalt-Exalt" showcases their take on the darker side of electronic disco. Disco Fizz bridges traditional disco from the American '70s with the space-age synthesizer/vocoder-powered Italian brand of disco that was beginning to invade with new innovations at that time. A must-have for any DJs.The record is officially reprinted on LP for the first time from the original master tapes.
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MGLP 106LP
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Reduced pricing, last copies... Synthònia is an electronic ambient album record only with analog synths -- Roland System 100, Roland TB 303, Roland JX 3P, Korg Polysix, Korg MS-10, Korg MS-20, Yamaha CS 15, Kawai 100F, Teisco 100F -- which refers to Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Klaus Shulze, The Berlin School, and John Carpenter. Dyno, from Pesaro, Italy, discovered the passion for electronic music and analog synthesizers at the early age of 15. His first single was released in 1995. For over two decades Dyno has established himself as one of the most eclectic and respected Italian producers of techno music, releasing on many important labels (Global Underground, Yoshitoshi, ZYX Music, DJ Mag, Traum) and supported by artists like Joris Voorn, James Zabiela, Sasha, Sharam (Deep Dish), and Umek, to name a few. His passion for analog synthesizers led him to realize this ambitious ambient work that floats just above everything, in a perfect geosynchronous orbit, casting enough shade to dampen the extraneous while causing a shift in perception, enough to take his listeners out of time and place, to wherever they need to be.
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MGOP 001LP
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Mondo Groove celebrates Italo-disco in fine style with the most important tunes from the legendary Phantom Records; a ride deep into the world of the label that has not only produced renowned music, but has been acknowledged as a serious influence on modern disco sounds. Emerging in the late '70s to early '80s, Italo bridged the gap between disco and house, and was a staple of seminal Chicago DJs like Frankie Knuckles. I-Robots, a true connoisseur of the genre, hailing from the Piedmont area of Italy, curated and carefully selected the tracks on this compilation. This eleven-track collection features originals and rarities, officially repressed here for the first time, and two tracks re-edited by I-Robots. The sequence begins with "Come With Me" by Roberto Carlotto. Carlotto was a keyboard player and singer active since the 1960s. His solo recording career began in 1971 with a 7" release, and was followed by the progressive rock cult album Dedicato A Giovanna G, released as Hunka Munka in 1972. At the time he was distinguished by its remarkable technique and the high quality of its equipment that included an incredible number of keyboards and even the first examples of electronic measures. "Comet Music Hall" came out as a 7" as a promotional edition for the homonymous discoteque -- a kind of psychedelic-disco still currently produced by Enzo Draghi. Roberto Ferracin is the man behind the Music One project, the name by which he produced only one LP of short electro-disco jingles. Included here are four of the most powerful cuts. Every Italo funk-disco collector knows "Radio Cosmo 101", a soulful jazzy-disco-funk number produced by the homonymous radio station that was based in Alessandria in 1975, and spawned from the mind of Tony De Giglio, his two brothers, and a group of friends. Included in this LP are the vocal and instrumental versions, as well as a long-version edit by I-Robots. Don Luigi Bernini is a Piedmontese priest who has devoted his life to music. He was introduced into the world of pop music by producers Riccardi & Albertelli and debuted with a single in 1977. Of his discography, his most interesting work is undoubtedly the weird Telepatia (1979) -- an electronic experimental album with the theme of good and evil always in the foreground. "Whirlwind" from Telepatia is featured here. Also features The One "O" One's.
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MGCP 001EP
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Italo-duo Club Paradiso come from Rimini, Adriatic Coast, and they bring forth the golden age of the spanking Riviera club culture. Traveling through time and space with synths and drum machines, they mix the past(a) and the future. Panoramica is a hypnotic and groovy journey that starts off with "Batongo", a tribal, exotic, and sweaty dancefloor banger. "Espresso Notte" is filled with organic house grooves, dreamy pads, and an endless synth. "Gulliver" and "Litoraneo" pick up from there and bring the sound scenario down heavy with '70s-'80s disco sounds and boogie.
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Reduced pricing, last copies... Mondo Groove present a reissue of K.Bytes's I Adore Commodore - Computer Music Flash, originally released in 1983. After the creation of his 1982 album Computer Disco (MGLP 101LP), Marcello Giombini produced I Adore Commodore - Computer Music Flash a year later, which was mainly made with a Commodore 64. Giombini was a veteran of music applications with personal computer. Starting with an Apple II Europlus, he then converted to the Commodore 64, thanks to the presence of three independent music generators that allowed him to make more elaborate music easier. The record was inspired by the videogames of the time, and the titles of the ten tracks are inspired by the names of famous games. The music was created using four-to-eleven Commodore 64s, programmed and synchronized with an external audio interface. At the time, Giombini, in his studio in a basement just a few steps from Nomentana, Rome, had organized a small school with courses of basic and computer music. The cover art graphic is the same of original LP; Comes with an inner-sleeve dedicated to Commodore 64.
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MGLP 102LP
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Reduced pricing, last copies... Deca (Federico De Caroli), composer and musician graduated in piano for over 30 years, is a protagonist of the Italian electronic and experimental scene, approaching other fields such as theater, multimedia, and television. A great summoner of dream suggestions, he started with the lessons of cosmic school, arriving at a personal alchemy of tradition and innovation, clutching the paradigms of artificial sound on the natural one. He began playing in 1975, and in 1983 he bought his first synthesizer, starting a long process of creative evolution, playing in parallel bands that are inspired by the British new wave, with such bands as Joy Division, The Cure, and Killing Joke, and studying the dynamics of synthetic sound. In 1985, he began his solo record productions career based on linear sequencer plots and minimal compositions that refer to already famous authors of electronic music, like Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, and Vangelis, and the so-called kosmische music of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Mass was produced in 1987/1988 with a Roland synthesizer and it was only distributed on cassette in limited edition. It is a more rhythmic album than his other works of the time, and ranks as the third of his discography, after the very collected Alkaid (1986) and Synthetic Lips (1987). It is a dark and minimalist electro-wave album comprised of states of strongly dark and distressed moods. The cover art, as for all his albums, was created by Deca.
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MGCT 005EP
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Chapter 5 and 6 mark the end of the Cosmic Temple project by Daniele Baldelli. Six 12" releases containing a total of 18 unreleased tracks inspired by the sounds of cosmic disco of Lazise (Verona, Italy), where Daniele Baldelli was resident from 1979 until the end of 1984. Chapter 5: Space music atmosphere in "Kata Sandi", a fusion of Italo disco electronics and Moroder influences with a vocoder to interpret the melody. After a grand opening, "Esaendro" starts to fly in space in Tangerine Dream atmosphere. "Dioxide" is an electro funk with psychotic and tribal influences.
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MGCT 006EP
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Chapter 5 and 6 mark the end of the Cosmic Temple project by Daniele Baldelli. Six 12" releases containing a total of 18 unreleased tracks inspired by the sounds of cosmic disco of Lazise (Verona, Italy), where Daniele Baldelli was resident from 1979 until the end of 1984. Chapter 6: In "Taxon", he intertwined saxophone, free voices, funk, jazz, and electronics. "Kevlar" is headed by a strident and wandering guitar on a carpet of percussion. "33vs45" is a piece composed to be played at 33rpm but also lends itself to be proposed in 45rpm in Daniele Baldelli's style.
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MGLP 103LP
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Mondo Groove present a reissue of Giovanni Cristiani's Alpha Percussion, originally released in 1985. Alpha Percussion is a cult groovy ambient album of acoustic percussion, pleasant to listen to and full of samples and breaks known very well by DJs and artists like Danny Brown, who used a sample of "Fragments Of Crystal" in "Really Doe", a song off his album Atrocity Exhibition (2016). Giovanni Cristiani is one of the most prepared and complete Italian percussionists. Born in Rome in 1952, he graduated in percussion at a young age and began playing professionally in Italy and abroad. In 1979, after years of activity at the side of the most popular jazz musicians, he constituted the Music Workshop A.D.E.L., playing drums and developing percussion courses. Penta Flowers, a Beat Records Company sub-label and publisher, asked him to make a solo percussion library music album in full artistic freedom that was pressed in limited edition for insiders; so was born Alpha Percussion, a gem now finally accessible, all thanks to the Mondo Groove label.
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MGLP 100LP
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Mondo Groove present a reissue of Louis' Band's Taste Me, originally released in 1981. Taste Me is an obscure, instrumental library music album and a weird example of Italo funk disco, played by professional musicians (most of them under pseudonym) involved in many different musical projects (ranging in genre from jazz, progressive rock and disco music). The album includes the killer disco funk song "Don't Stop It". Music by Piergiovanni; Arranged by Louis Vanni. Pressed in a limited edition, with original artwork for the first time since 1981.
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Mondo Groove present a reissue of Marcello Giombini's Computer Disco, originally released in 1982. Computer Disco is the greatest Euro-synth, disco album of early '80s and now it's finally being reissued by Mondo Groove. Computer Disco is the most Kraftwerk-ian Italian production. Marcello Giombini was a pioneer of early sequencers and on this cult LP, he produced cheesy, cosmic synth pop, with a little bit of Italo disco mixed in. Every fan of '70s/'80s synthesizer music and electronic DJs should put this in their collection. Original artwork restored.
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MGCT 001EP
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What first strikes the eye of the Cosmic Temple releases are the covers, with fluorescent colors, which form a patchwork created by Aldo Drudi (the designer of Valentino Rossi). But immediately after, the music takes the stage. Chapter 1 takes the listener to lands of wonders with numbers like "Thyratron", with Ricky Burattini on piano, playing a utopian fusion as if Peter Daou was weaned at Cosmic in Lazise, Italy instead of the Paradise Garage in New York, or "Inner Light", Francesca Amati with the voice, which is pure 2015 electro-pop, and the rhythmic bass on "Diffrazione".
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MGCT 002EP
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What first strikes the eye of the Cosmic Temple releases are the covers, with fluorescent colors, which form a patchwork created by Aldo Drudi (the designer of Valentino Rossi). But immediately after, the music takes the stage. Chapter 2 takes the listener to lands of wonders with the phrasing of "Zircaloy", and still that yin and yang that composed "Krebs Cycle", with Burattini on synth, a race horse deep disco at 120 bpm that goes into stratospheres, and "Afelio", a lethargic space ballet at 90 bpm.
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MGCT 003EP
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Cosmic Temple Chapter 3: "Gandharva" switching from a balearic atmosphere to an interstellar space travel. In "Kosmaro", the voice of Monica Giacomobono describes a sleepless night traveling delirious on the notes of the keyboard played Ricky Burattini which then, together with the bass of Onorino Tiburzi, transports the listener to a jazzy-funk walk with the track "Isotropofunk".
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MGCT 004EP
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Cosmic Temple Chapter 4: An ingredient that cannot be missed in Daniele Baldelli's Cosmic project is Afro-beat. "Joka Joka" is sung by Congolese Bale Mondonga. "Vhanessa" is a magical flight in search of distant galaxies, a tribal electro joints game - a kind of rubik's cube. The Kraftwerk-ian "Archetipo" leaves us waiting for the next Chapter.
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