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Bayete

Native Dance 2

Bayetë returns with a second Native Dance edits sampler, teaming up this time with close friends and local producers on four dancefloor-ready edits ro... more...

• 1 alba
• 2 guapa
• 3 sancho
• 4 lily

Cela

I'm In Love

Limited edition of a great pre-80s Italian disco production with massive funky basslines and great vocals produced by Marty Celay and Robert Drake (th... more...

• 1 Im In Love (Disco Version)
• 2 Im In Love (USA Version)

Rodion & Mammarella

Sierra Madre

Next up on Slow Motion, Rodion and Fabrizio Mammarella are back with another precious collaboration EP since “Appennini” released in 2012 but never fo... more...

• 1 Barranca Del Cobre
• 2 Cerro Gordo (ft. Mijo)
• 3 Sierra Madre (Front De Cadeaux Remix)

Luca dell'Orso

The Jolisa EP

The Jolisa EP marks a significant shift in Luca dell’Orso’s sound. Although the electric hooks and rolling rhythms that characterise the dutchman’s si... more...

• 1 Sixteen (ft. Jolisa)
• 2 Nighttime
• 3 Reach Out (ft. Jolisa)
• 4 Tomorrow's Already Here

Citizens

Village 001

The Village's unknown delivers two cuts of these old tunes with funky house and minimal vibe.

• 1 AA1
• 2 BB1

Fabrizio Fattori

Mediterranean Africa

Recommended by: MinimalRome

Fabrizio Fattori is one of the most representative dj in the afro balearic Italian movement, Best Record with this album put together all the songs pr... more...

• 1 Running On The Nile
• 2 Leg Pulling
• 3 Black Babe
• 4 Babe Black Night Version

Lama

Love On The Rocks / 1993

Remastered reissue of a double A-side classic by LAMA a studio project from 1983. Both tracks here are killer electro/italo tracks well worth their we... more...

• 1 Love On The Rocks
• 2 Nineteen Ninety Three

Subradeon

We Are Resilient

Subradeonon their own imprint with four detroit techno inspired, elevating techno tracks which includes a remix from Detroit’s DJ Rolando.

• 1 We Are Resilient
• 2 Don't Fake The Funk
• 3 Wisdom
• 4 Wisdom (Rolando remix)

Volantis E Nicodemo

Spaziotempo

he boutique label from Milan is back with a 6 tracker ep. Masterminds Volantis and Nicodemo present Spaziotempo EP, serving up 4 brand new tracks and... more...

• 1 Spaziotempo
• 2 Via Lattea
• 3 Spaziotempo (Bell Towers Remix)
• 4 Fuori Orbita

Bottin

Horror Disco Mystery Bundle

Bottin comes with a special surprise package - 4 record deal in a super limited Horror Disco tote bag which comes in an edition of 100 copies - black... more...

• Horror Disco mystery bag with 4 records

Sound On Sound

Macho / Depression

After getting used to eclectic sounds but always rooted in disco music, boogie with some proto-house drift, at the stroke of a dozen reissues, Omaggio... more...

• 1 macho
• 2 depression

Dimmish

Planet Zero EP

Surging Italian house DJ and producer Dimmish debuts on LOCUS as he drops his ‘Planet Zero’ EP. Lush and effective deeper house cuts!

• 1 Planet Zero
• 2 Hello Panic
• 3 Stellar
• 4 Espresso

Nico Mecca

Floppy Computer

Recommended by: Dr Troy (Medical Records)

'Floppy Computer' is the newest set of future-gazing grooves from Periodica Records and label partner Raffaele "Whodamanny" Arcella rescuing and resto... more...

• 1 Floppy Computer
• 2 Boom!
• 3 PCM
• 4 Divagazioni

Various Artists

Beppe Loda edits (Spaghetti Disco Vol 2)

Compilation of Beppe Loda cuts, part 2

• 1 ayx - disco (beppe loda edit)
• 2 d.D sound - show me your love (beppe loda edit)
• 3 landro express - disco sentimento (beppe loda edit)
• 4 rudy - just take my body (beppe loda edit)

Club Band

Club Is My Passion

Though Club Band's "Club is My Passion" was written as a radio jingle, it is nonetheless a dancefloor bomb. As was the case in 1987, Best Record Italy... more...

• 1 Club Is My Passion (Vocale)
• 2 Club Is My Passion (Strumentale)

Nino Lepore

Chok Musik

Nino Lepore hails from South Italy, and is best known for his self-titled LP from 1986, as well as for his uncredited work on Dancer Record. The 'Chok... more...

• 1 Nino Lepore - Chok Musik
• 2 Nino Lepore - Bad Time

Thunder

Speed Cross

Released in 1980, "Speed Cross" by Thunder is an adventurous dancefloor epic seeing octave basslines and galloping disco beats supporting galactic pad... more...

• 1 Thunder - Speed Cross
• 2 Thunder - The Game
• 3 Speed Cross (Mystic Jungle & Whodamanny Rework)

KETAMA

Mentalmismo

Following the success of their debut EP on Cosmic Rhythm, KETAMA are back with 4 brand new dreamy Balearic cuts.

• 1 Mentalmismo
• 2 Overture
• 3 Suspira (5AM Mix)
• 4 The Secret

Loui$

Magic Dance

Compared to some of the ultra-obscure releases buffed up and reissued on Best, Loui$' "Magic Dance" is something of a perennial classic, but that does... more...

• 1 - Magic Dance
• 2 - Pink Foot

G.A.N.G.

Incantations

Recommended by: MinimalRome

G.A.N.G. was a short-lived studio project from Giorgio Giordano, Giorgio Dolce and Roberto Zanetti (Savage). In 1983 they released "Incantations", a p... more...

• 1 - G.A.N.G. - Incantations
• 2 - G.A.N.G. - Incantations Instrumental

G.A.N.G.

KKK

Recommended by: Staff Pick Of The Week

Giorgio Gordano and Giorgio Dolce originally produced ''KKK'' back in 1983, and the track was taken into the hearts of the blossoming Balearic scene h... more...

• 1 KKK. (club mix)
• 2 KKK. (dub mix & bonus beats)

Cosmic Garden

Aphrodisiaca

Label head Cosmic Garden returns to mothership with 4 subtle lushy cuts of pure Italo/Balearic deepness.

• 1 Morning Light
• 2 Aphrodisiaca
• 3 Mediterranean Dream
• 4 Morning Light (Rainy Paradise Mix)

Parbleu

Danse Cette Zik

Equatorial groove excursions by Parbleu on this new Periodica release. A multi-cultural fever dream of imagined sonic exotica, one featuring both ev... more...

• 1 Danse Cette Zik
• 2 Atlas
• 3 Venus S'Endort Et Moi Avec Elle
• 4 Soweto

Herbie Goins

You Don't Love Me

"The Renegates of Planet Earth" were a group of DJ-producers from the detached Best Record of Sabaudia (small Saint-Tropez of the Tyrrhenian Sea, 100... more...

• 1 - You Don't Love Me
• 2 - You Don't Love Me (American Version)
• 3 - You Don't Love Me (Instrumental Version)

Live Fashion

Bicycle Song

Totally funkin', groovin' female Italo-Disco vocal jam recorded in 1984 at the Studio Group in Rome by Stefano Zito (aka Blackway & Helene, B.W.H.) to... more...

• 1 - Bicycle Song (Dub Version)
• 2 - Bicycle Song (Vocal)