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| | Italian Disco |
 | | Dado and Gala represent the sound of Milan, a postmodern city full of businessmen with briefcases, cell-phoned dealmakers, supermodel wanna-bes, and enough trendy discos to stud the pages of a hundred fashion magazines. |
 | | The DJ sound of "Adriatic Funk," as IRMA Records' president Umbi Damiani calls it, has "soul music in mind." A five-CD Irma compilation called Sotterranea collects 119 tracks from Adriatic funk's source records -- house from NYC, Eurotechno, Boy George and his imitators, and electro-dance comedies à la Italy's best early-'80s disco band, Kano. |
 | | From singles like Gala's "Freed from Desire," Babe Instinct's "Disco Babes from Outer Space," and Paradisio's "Bailando" to the full-lengths Universal Mother (Irma America) by Jestofunk and Greatest Hits and Future Bits (Dance Factory/Priority) by DJ Dado, the sound of Italian dance pop -- electronically mellow, dreamy, and fast -- keeps on coming. |
| www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/10/15/ITALIAN_DISCO.html (903 words) |
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