V.A. ELASTE VOL. 1 - SLOW MOTION DISCO

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V.A.

ELASTE VOL. 1

SLOW MOTION DISCO

(CPT 239-1/-2)

Originals from the Cosmic era - compiled by DJ Mooner!

The Story of the Italian Cosmic sound in 2 minutes:

Italy, 1976: In a luxurious discotheque on the Italian Adriatic coast, every weekend two American DJs called Bob and Tom play records that are just making history in their hometown NYC at the legendary „Loft“. Bob and Tom are resident DJs at the „Baia Degli Angeli“, a gigantic club with various floors, fountains, swimming pools and lots of glitz of the Jet set. After the Baia closes due to a drug raid, Daniele Baldelli, inspired by the „Baia Sound“ starts DJing in a new club called „Cosmic“ in Lazise.

Not only he´s beat-mixing Funk, Soul and early Disco - Baldelli´s sytle is unique: songs are mixed perfectly in a superslow tempo of 80-105 BPM. Cosmic is like a wild LSD trip: Afro mixed with German electronics, percussion solos, Bolero with delay effects, 12“s on 33 instead of 45, 70s Krautrock, Industrial... This way of playing records is absolutely new, and Daniele gets quickly famous. A whole wave of DJs and clubs get inspired by his mixtapes, and soon the whole of northern

Italy

calls it „Cosmic Sound“.

Unlike Italodisco, Cosmic or „Afrofunky“ was never exported broadly; it has always stayed a local party phenomenon. That’s one of the reasons why it wasn’t really exploited commercially yet like many other 1980ies genres. Today producers as Lindstrom, Prins Thomas or DJ Harvey caught the spirit and labels like Gomma, or Eskimo are deeply inspired and now try to create dance tracks that have a similar atmosphere.

This compilation is a collection of the original music that was actually played at Discoteca Cosmic. It is playful, experimental, harmonic and most of all it is dance music. (DJ Mooner)

Tracklist:

01. The Rah Band “Electric Fling”

02. Clive Stevens & Brainchild “Mystery Man” Remix

03. Love International “Dance On The Groove (And Do The Funk)”

04. Doctor’s Cat “Crash” Mooner’s Edit

05. Heaven 17 “I’m Your Money”

06. Logic System “Clash (Chinjyu Of Sun)”

07. Memory Control One (MC1) “Basic”

08. Peru “Oriental”

09. Eloy “Horizons”

10. Chris & Casy “This Is Me”

11. Chocolate Star “The Pop”

About DJ Mooner:

Mooner has been running his label, "Erkrankung durch Musique", since 2000.He has also taken part in Punk-Rock project 'Club le Bomb', since the success of Zombie Nation´s „Kernkraft 400“  (Top Ten hit in UK, Greece, Holland, Belgium... in 1999/2000) which he co-produced, a less commercial project that happened at an illegal location beneath the city of Munich in an abandoned underground water powerplant.

It's a wild style club that is an art project at the same time. Together with Benjamin Bergmann and Catriona Shaw (Queen of Japan), they organised nights as 'Club le Bomb' through the whole of Europe, collaborating with artists like DJ Hell, Sven Väth, Patrick Pulsinger, Queen of Japan, Jeans Team, and many, many others.

Also Hart of Noise (with Generation Aldi-man Bülent Kullukcu) was a cutting edge project between Art, Music and Pranksterism, an irony of the big names in the Techno-Biz. The project climaxed in a liveshow at a Cocoon party where about 500 kilo of food and electronic trash were thrown into the audience.

Zombocombo, with Polly Ester (of Kamerakino) and KITT Bang is the current occupation and longtime project. They organise monthly events at Munich´s  club „Registratur“, where they throw parties with music, clothes and shows that go along with crazy mottos such as „Medical Congress“, „Tales of Voodoo“ or „Space Gay Cowboys“.

His label, Erkrankung, features debut works of artists such as Steril, Hong Kong Counterfeit, Queen of Japan, The Magnificents, Mix Mup, Vostok, Nicolas Courtin, Auto, Acid Boy Chair, as well as projects like the Sid-Musique, a compilation of international artists working with sounds of antique computers like the Commodore C-64. Many of these records had been setting new genres; mostly years ahead of the time they went „hype“-like Commodore sounds, Elektro-Punk, „Elektroclash“, or the Acid-revival.

Mooner's sound is influenced by obscure B-sides of Italodisco, trashy House, Elektro, Acid, Rock, Punk-Funk, Krautrock and the wildstyle mixing of Club le Bomb. Mooner´s further influences on his unique DJ mixing style relate to his Mom´s psychedelic record selection, the widespread interest of music by 70s north-italian Cosmic Music scene. Also he was one of the first DJs to buy an iPod for pro use, filled with obscure B-sides and demo versions.