ABOUT THIS ITEM

The "Horror Disco" concept all started with the chance loan of a noisy, old, uncontrollable, 70s Farfisa Syntochestra synthesizer. This proved to be the weapon of choice for several of the tracks on the album ("Mary Lewis", "Magnetic Cat") with Bottin building up hand-played layers old school style. A few tweaks of the Farfisa led our man to the world of sounds he grew up to: the soundtracks to Italian slasher B-movies (like those by Lucio Fulci, Bava, Argento & Alberto Martino), but also futuristic horror scenarios, cosmic travels and close encounters with space vampires... The die was set. "Horror Disco" melds these soundtrack and aural ideas with a 100% disco album. One that drifts away from most of the soulful elements of disco and into a dirtier, warmer and less polished area than contemporary Scanddo-Med style nu-disco. The album is wide and varied; "Slashdance" gives us a Goblin-esque robo-vocoder-disco, "Roger Bacon" is pure cosmic, whilst the Italo-disco thriller "Disco For The Devil" features the vocals of Italian-based, UK-born session master Douglas Meakin - who back in the day was lead vocalist in Simonetti's Easy Going and Crazy Gang cult disco projects. The film influence is ever present too; "Venezia Violenta" is the imaginary soundtrack to futuristic cowboy flick Westworld and the closing track "Endless Mother" is pure John Carpenter 1982 vibe, rejuvenated by a screaming synth ostinato. "Horror Disco" is an impressive album with a rare attention to detail.