I-Robots – 8 Tracks Of Italian No Disco/No Wave

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"It was a special Italian "age", focused around Milan, Bologna and Florence….

Several "Post Punk" artists influenced by the international sounds of the early 80s New Wave, Dark, Electro, Synth created a real "underground movement" that was not really popular like the Cosmic & Disco scene in Italy.

Soon Black Music sounds like Afro, Disco, Funk & Rap strongly influenced their music direction and changed the Rock mentality to a much Disco vision. With these changes, the mutation was complete. There are a lot of interesting seminal No Disco/No Wave tracks that I still love to play after 30 years of music evolution and changes…"

Here, I-Robots selects a rather stunning 8 tracks of Italian No Disco/No Wave. Some of these were so rare we had to ask him to send us the files and upload them to youtube!

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Gaznevada - Japanese Girl - Italian Records (I1980)

Extract from their 1980’s first vinyl LP ‘Sick Soundtrack’; actually it’s their second album considering that the first 1979 one ‘Gaznevada’ was just a tape (from 2009 also on cd format). ‘Japanese Girl’ is a slow motion new wave tune with a sort of rap reminiscences on the vocals…

Gaznevada - Japanese Girl - Italian Records (I1980)

Extract from their 1980’s first vinyl LP ‘Sick Soundtrack’; actually it’s their second album considering that the first 1979 one ‘Gaznevada’ was just a tape (from 2009 also on cd format). ‘Japanese Girl’ is a slow motion new wave tune with a sort of rap reminiscences on the vocals…
Hi-Fi Bros. - Saba-U - Italian Records (Italy 1982)

If you are a fan of Blue Rondo A La Turk, Modern Romance but also of A Certain Ratio, Liquid Liquid & ESG you should love this unusual Italo latin wave disco tune…
Kerosene - Poco Tempo - Italian Records (Italy 1982)

This amazing exclusive vocal dub tune can be compared to some On-U Sound releases like the albums of African Head Charge for example…
Kirlian Camera - Communicate (Instrumental Version) - Memory Records (Italy 1983)

One of the few 80s “still in business” electronic bands considered pioneers for the Italian scene; anyway, sadly in my personal opinion, they suddenly changed their sound in the mid of the 80s to be much Electro-Gothic…. ‘Communicate’ is a classic Italo electro synth tune that signed the sound of great Italo Disco label ‘Memory Records’ in 1983…
Krisma - Miami/Miami Reprise - Cgd/Atlantic (Italy 1982)

“Chrisma” was a punk wave duo formed in the 1976; by the 1980s the band changed name to “Krisma” and also their sound started to be much more synth electronic and also pop…. I personally organized their show in my city Turin many years ago so would like to remember Maurizio Arcieri with this song cause he sadly died last January 2015. These two versions of “Miami” are a journey into a pure freestyle melodic dark electro wave… Really unique!
N.O.I.A. - Do You Wanna Dance (Sado Version) - Italian Records (Italy 1983)

Who better than N.O.I.A. can represent the Italian electronic changes and evolutions..?! They are really pioneers… Wave, Synth, Electro and Black Music Funk & Disco are the elements that signed their productions from the early 80s. “Do You Wanna Dance” is the single that really showed their afro american music roots together with their electro ethnic influences. I can recognize the USA old school rap of Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five in their vocals too.
Naif Orchestra - Dancers! - Turning On/Materiali Sonori (Italy 1982)

Experimental band from the Bigazzi brothers founders of Materiali Sonori & Fuzz Dance labels that also produced Alexander Robotnick. “Dancers!” is just a psychedelic percussive synth funk sick tune!!!!
Neon - My Blues Is You (Slow Dub) - Kindergarten (Italy 1983)

I can definitely say that the Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli made this tune popular by his legendary “tapes” (C88-1984) and his unique “equalized” Cosmic disco performances… “My Blues Is You (Slow Dub)” is a totally instrumental electro-synth tune with an hypnotic tension that could be a space-age movie soundtrack…