Bottin | Horror Disco

Bottin makes music only an Italian can make... probably.
Take a youth spent against a background of old Italian Giallo soundtracks, add in late 70s Italian
disco influences, a touch of free and easy west-coast vibe and a smattering of kitsch.
That just about half describes Bottin.

Here at the Bearfunk cave we are already thriller-ed by the tasty four-track EP from the
upcoming album (and concept!) that is Horror Disco.

As a taster for the main event we open things up with Disco For The Devil.
If Vincent Price & Giorgio Moroder had made Italo then this may have been the result.
This italo disco thriller features the perfectly sculptured vocals by UK-born and Italian-based
session master Douglas Meakin – who back in the day was lead vocalist in Simonetti's Easy
Going and Crazy Gang cult disco projects.

Next up with is Sciarando El Scuro, a unique blend of lazy disco and poliziesco, slasher b-movie
soundtracks. Just in case you were wondering Sciarando El Scuro (pronounced "tscha-rando el
scooroh") is Venetian dialect and means "throwing light into the darkness"

Side B opens up with an exclusive track, Cosmic Pizza. This layers choppy guitars and
meandering juno style synth-lines over a space-disco tarantella (the traditional Italian tripletbased
rhythm, don’t you know).

Things round of with Bianca, which mixes deep space pads and tasteful slapped bass and is
already a favorite among cosmic sound originators Beppe Loda and Daniele Baldelli.

The Horror Disco concept all started with the chance encounter with a noisy, old, incontrollable,
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 pure contemporary disco album.
One that drifts away from most of the soulful elements of disco and one that is dirtier, warmer
and less polished than Scandinavian nu-disco. The album is wide and varied; Slashdance gives us
a Goblin-esque robo-vocoder-disco, Roger Bacon is pure cosmic groove, ". The film influence is
ever present too, Horror Disco is the Giallo intro opener, Theme From St. Mark 30124 and
Venezia Violenta are the imaginary soundtracks to retro-futuristic flicks set in the Venetian
Lagoon, while the closing track Endless Mother is pure John Carpenter 1982 vibe, rejuvinated
by a screaming synth ostinato.

The well-received and anthemic italo chunker No Static (so far only available in a 12" limited
edition of 750 copies on cult US label Italians Do It Better) is also included.

Horror Disco is an impressive concept work with a rare attention to detail and after some
seriously impressive listening, you'll know you have just found your favorite new Venetian.

The 14-track album drops on July 6th, 2009.

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