Horror Disco

about this album

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, 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 work with

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