6/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tanoNZsIh40

Hey
MmHm
Yyyyeeeaahhh!
Yyyyeeeaahhh!
Peter pan and his band
Oh man!
Peter pan and his band

The Italo-disco phenomenon is so goofy. I remember the first time hearing italo-disco, at faust-house, and sweaty hairy shirtless nick running around back and forth in that basement. I think that was the first time i saw what exuberance / flambouyance / excitement you could get with dance music. And, still, there are regular italo nights that happe, back in austin (gino scaramuzza, how i miss him), and in SF ( i think one of the first nights i went to see Primo was because it was advertised as an italo night). It's just a reliable mood that you can get if you wanna flap around a little bit.

As far as italo-house goes, it isn't a term that you hear as much used to showcase a night, and i'm unclear if it carries the same cheesy / ripoff / B-movie connotation that italo disco has. Examples of two track that both seem to be referred to as 'italian/italo house):

49ers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tanoNZsIh40 (Comment: Original 1989 video. DVD RIP. Italo House)
and
Sueno Latino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXhqDeTSEl4 (Comment: "A masterpiece of italian house)

These songs are very different. Sueno Latino is much more cosmic. Then again, sueno is described as 'italian,' so maybe the italo/ian is the differentiator here, and the 49rs track definitely serves the cheese.

In any case, the 49ers track, subject of this, is pretty funny -- music video as well. The sampled screaming sounds a lot like the singer from 'ride on time' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0quXl_od3g -- and, turns out that they were both done by Gianbranco Bortolotti's production house, Media --- so maybe it is the same sample? The lip syncing in the video is so much. It looks like a tim and eric skit. Turns out that the woman singing it in the video, Dawn Mitchell, was the front woman, and her vocals got mixed and dubbed over by an aretha franklin sample (or possible a sample from another song called touch me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7qQR1xqDJQ )-- the youtube comments rabbit hole could go deep.

Dawn Mitchell has a Facebook page here, and it sounds like she is still singing some really good jazz - https://www.facebook.com/DawnMitchellTheArtist/ - she posted an album called The Nineties, and a photo of her tagged in Austin -- in the 90s? I wonder where they played.