Releases
THE RIMSHOOTERS – DEEP ELECTRIC EP
Slow Motion family proudly presents The Rimshooters (Massimiliano Pagliara & Rotciv).
The name comes from a special obsession for rim shot drum sounds, typically found on famous and legendary Roland drum computers such as TR-808, 909, 707, which both of them had already used in their individual productions. The final result is a mixture of classic and vintage sounding tracks yet modern, through the use of old synthesizers and drum machines as well as software artifacts and techniques.
Calling You leans heavily on excerpts from Answering Service’s classic “Mr. Telephone Man”, but The Shooters knits it into a brand new sweater, with added beefyness, lush strings and acid lines, turning out a hypnotic neo-acid chicago-stomper from this good old disco-groover.
Deep Electric, well, obviously – deeper and more electric. Drenched in effects and thick 80s chord-stabs, it’s on the moving, yet a more introspective tip.
Like On a Peacock Island brings a more mid-80s italo vibe to the stage, but steadily builds with the power and punch of the current decade.
Last but not least, Fabrizio Mammarella version of Deep Electric whips up a wicked remix with his destinctive edgyness and demon-plagued synth aestethics. Starting off in a breaksy and, almost ravey 90s fashion, then gradually transforming into a more filthy discoid adventure, deep and rugged.
(Henning Severud, Berlin, Jan 2012)
Title: Deep Electric EP
Artist: The Rimshooters
Cat.: SLOMO 008
Label: Slow Motion
Format: Vinyl 12” (Picture Disc) and digital
Release date: 21 February 2012
Style: Electro, Italo, Disco House, Acid House, Cosmic, Deep, Disco
Tracks:
A1 Calling You (6:44)
A2 Deep Electric (7:08)
B1 Like on a Peacock Island (6:46)
B2 Deep Electric (Fabrizio Mammarella Version) (6:25)
FRANCISCO – DISCO WIZARD (PICTURE DISC) – super-limited edition
A shiny picture disco for Slow Motion Records release number 7 – Disco Wizard by Francisco from Jolly Music. Beamed from distant satellites via 1983 and picked up by a crack team of Berlin based Italian disco commandoes, the Disco Wizard brings to mind Space, the tougher end of pre-84 Italo, guys with beards and Grace Jones and Amanda Leat dancing the night away. A nagging baseline propels the track forward with alternating male and female vocals that coo and tease, whilst twinkling refrain evokes the Giogio Morder’s classic ‘The Chase’. On the flip side the dub mix strips away most of the vocals and injects some serious strut into the beats. The rougher, tougher cousin of the original to send the boys and girls wild with cosmic desire. You have been warned.
Title: Disco Wizard
Artist: Francisco
Cat.: SLOMO 007
Label: Slow Motion
Format: Vinyl 12” (Picture Disc)
Release date: 15 November 2011
Style: Italian Disco
Tracks:
A1 Disco Wizard (Space Mix)
A2 Disco Wizard (Dub Version)
MARCELLO GIORDANI – CHUBBY RAIN EP
We are pleased with the latest addition to our Slow Motion family – Marcello Giordani. Disco overlord, laser cowboy and cosmic heartbreaker.
Chubby Rain takes you on a journey through inner space and outer dimensions where space glows a dark-indigo and thoughts and feeling come and go like waves on a beach. With wandering arpeggios, washed out digital strings and distant vocals, there’s just the right amount of strut in the precision-engineered beats to take propel you through the night.
Roma brings us back closer to earth with a smattering of classic disco sounds reinterpreted for a parallel universe. Playful synths make us think of strange animals in distant galaxies, and inter stellar adventuring with a happy ending.
Flip the record over and Masimilliano Pagliara breaks Chubby Rain‘s epic journey in to smaller, shaper hops that still retain the best parts of the original but adding extra rocket boosters to make for a more exciting ride.
Finally Modus, the dirty, sexy robot cousin that people only talk about in hushed digital voices. She slow, sleazy and spilling oil out of every hole. Is that reggae she is listening to? Don’t slip.
(Gareth Owen, Berlin, Sep 2011)
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FABRIZIO MAMMARELLA – TRANSISTOR REPLICA EP
Number 5 from Slow Motion and this time Fabrizio Mammarella steps and delivers the goods.
Mercator gallops along with the drums and percussion having more than a hint of the post-disco New York 1983′s about them. The super-squelchy acid is from Chicago ’87 via London ’88 and Ghent ’89 but absolutely, resolutely now and the soaring lead lines and FX turn the whole thing into one of those utterly airborne slices of prime-time club music that is far more champagne-fuelled first class transatlantic travel than a cheap and cheerful Easyjet set short hop flight where you have to pay for your peanuts.
Lie (Living in Ecstasy) takes the tempo down a notch or two in heavy eye-lidded mdma kind of way and heads firmly into red light sleaze territory. It’s so sleazy in fact that if you nip off for a few minutes to get the drinks in it’ll very likely polish off all your drugs and try it on with your girlfriend. Chunky acid, warm pads, and broken robot noises are very much the order of the day here.
Skymed keeps the tempo down but stomps that much harder and goes straight for the 80s jugular with deep squelching moogy bass and lead lines, heavily reverberating claps and the pads set to stun instead of massage. A healthy dose of digital delay feedback and outer space fireworks going off all over the place seal the deal with this one.
(review by Andy Blake, May 2011)
Side A
A1. Fabrizio Mammarella – MercatorSide B
B1. Fabrizio Mammarella – Lie (Living In Ecstasy)B2.Fabrizio Mammarella – Skymed
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ALIEN ALIEN – BLACK GURU EP
Release number four from our Latin lair, and this time we are very excited to introduce a mystery project – Alien Alien with two tracks; Black Guru and Sambaca.
Alien Alien is the shadowy side project of Hugo Sanchez and Rodion who have distilled for us two stone cold cuts of percussive, rolling disco for the dance-floor, backed up with remixes from Horse Meat Disco’s Severino and The Heels of Love.
Black Guru is all about shaking cowbells and a synth line that is somewhat reminiscent of the Tom Tom Club. However a creepy vocal and neon lasers take the track to a whole different stratosphere, where all the colors and creeds of the galaxy throw down as one for some serious hands in the air future disco action. Severino’s LDB-NYC mix breaks things down to a less frantic pace, but makes up for the change in energy with some seriously heavyweight bass and classic house piano stabs,
Flip the record over and it’s all about the cosmic flex of Sambacca. Low and sleazy with a speaker troubling low-end, this hypnotic workout takes you on a journey through oceans and forests , beaches and jungles. Shaking tambourines and rattling drums envelop a vocal that brings to mind the classic Northern Exposure mixes of old. Finally The Heels of Love take Sambacca and add just a touch more urgency with bubbling synth swooshes, extra drums and a bass so thick you could chew on it for hours. One for those more intense moments on the dance-floor.
Side A
A1. Alien Alien – Black GuruA2. Alien Alien – Black Guru (Severino LDN-NYC Version)
Side B
B1. Alien Alien – SambacaB2.Alien Alien – Sambaca (The Heels of Love Remix)
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DISCODROMO – STARS AND RAIN EP
From the beating Latin heart of the modern disco world, Discodromo join us for their first Slow Motion release and our third overall. With two original tracks and two stunning remixes this pair of cheeky italians first bring us the laid back charms of Stars and Rain featuring the vocal talents Miss Plug In. Strutting funk and cascading synths are the order of the day on this taut laser workout. With a bitterest melody and relentless drums, this is a cinematic excursion into 10am disco music. Miss Plug In’s blank eyed vocals are one part Rimini, to two parts Berlin giving the track a hazy, druggy feel that will work like magic on the even the most demanding dance floors.
Next up is Etzel reminiscent of Yello and YMO, an epic disco workout that begins as something you may hear at a Balearic beach party, before the beat drops and it’s hands in the air and feet on the dance floor for a very modern take on the Italo sound.
Remixes come courtesy of Club Silencio who turn in a dirty house mix of Stars and Rain, complete EBM flourishes that may or may not be a Nitzer Ebb sample. Stripping things back to the bare essentials and then bringing in their own percussion and samples, Club Silencio cut up the vocal for a very hypnotic effect. Label boss, and hardest working man in disco Franz Underwear turns in a peak time club version of the track, with a nod to the underground disco clubs of Berlin.
Side A
A1. Discodromo Feat Miss Plug Inn – Stars and RainA2. Discodromo – Etzel
Side B
B1. Discodromo – Stars and Rain – Club Silencio Dirthy House MixB2.Discodromo – Stars and Rain – Franz Underwear Italian Revenge Version
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MOTORCYCLE BOY – WRONG ERA EP
The second release, “Wrong Era EP” is about the charms of Italy’s very own Motorcycle Boy who delivers two stunning original tracks backed up with white hot remixes from The Heels of Love and old school disco hero Fabrizio Mammarella.
Side A
A1. Motorcycle Boy -TryA2. Motorcycle Boy – Easy On Yourself
Side B
B1. Motorcycle Boy – Don’t Lose The Juice (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)B2.Motorcycle Boy – Easy On Yourself (The Heels Of Love Remix
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SLOW MOTION – VOLUME 1
The 2009 is the year of the launch of the label “SLOW MOTION RECORDS”; A platform for high quality electronic disco form the home of Italo, has been lacking for some time, and so we wanted to take our time in finding the best possible music that represents the sound we love and the music of our parties.
Fusing the best of a new breed of Italian producers like Clap Rules, Motorcycle Boy and Fratelli Riviera with serous heavyweights like Beppe Loda, Slow Motion Records represents the future sound of Italian disco.
Side A
A1. Clap Rules -123A2. Beppe Loda – Karolina
Side B
B1. Motorcycle Boy – The MoverB2.Fratelli Riviera – Hard Rock
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Avaiable on: Juno Records – Beatport – Decks Records
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