Dario Margeli's favorite records

# 64

Artist: 49ers feat. Anne Marie Smith

Year: 1996

"Lovin you"

Style: House

Italy

Gianfranco Bortolloti is a heroe to many. He is best known for his dance music record company "Media". Under the 49ers name...Media Records has released many great records, including: 1989's Touch Me and 1992 full-length album "Playing with my heart". Only the short mix contains the actual song. Anne Maries vocals are repeated insistently giving hypnotic qualities to it. All this over a very hard hitting house-NRG track.

# 65

Artist: Mietta

Year: 2000

"fare l'amore"

Style: ballad

A big star in Italy...she specializes in mediteranean ballads. This one for example contains what sounds like an arabic string section. Like many italian ballads this one contains a climax part where she totally explodes. I've seen a video for her singing this live on San Remo....and she sings as great live as on CD.

66

Artist: Bizzare Inc.

Year: 1992

"Playing with Knives"

Style: Techno

UK

I've placed the picture for a different single of them because that one (such a feeling) was Totally electic...loose wire sound..... But "Playing with knives" had the additional ingridient of a male falsetto singer being sampled doing an ad-lib.

# 67

Artist: Giana Nannini

Year: 1986

"Bello Impossible" (Good looking and impossible guy!)

Style: Rock in Italian

She's Italy's Rocking Chick! She has a rough voice wich she uses very appropriately. This one is an uplifting rockin' song. The lyrics shows that she sings "senza peli sulla lingua".

#68

Artist: BT

Year: 1999

"God Speed"

Style: Techno

U.S via U.K

An american that due to lack of support for dance music in the U.S had to go to Europe where he has become huge. This one is an instrumental. It's pretty palatable. Non of the irritating hard edge techno here.

# 69

Artist: Googoosh

Year: 1974

"Gharibe Aashenaa"

Style: Diva rhythm ballad Persian Pop

Iran

Read my www.geocities.com/dmargeli/shamaizadeh.html page for lots of information on this one.

# 70

Artist: Kofi and the...

Year: 1984

"countdown"

Style: Hi-NRG

One of those gay mid 80's Hi-NRG records

# 71

Artist: Opus III

Year: 1994

"When you made the mountain"

Style: House of the dreamy kind

Usually I'm not for dreamy house music with a white female vocalist upfront singing in a whispery angelic voice. However with Opus III it seams to work well given the imaginative songwriting and landscaping. The lack of support for dance music made their second album (Mother Guru) that featured this song to be their last.

# 72

Artist: Scotch

Year: 1984

"Take Me Up"

Style: Italo Disco

# 73

Artist: Bobby Solo

Year: 1981

"Non Posso Perdirti" (EMI)

Style: Italy

I know this song in a remixed version.

# 74

Artist: Dj Dado & Barbara Roy

Year: 1997

"Coming Back"

Style: House

italy

Over a dream house background ...you get a massive diva vocal performance.

# 75

Artist: Happy Clappers

Year: 1995

"I believe"

Style: House

UK

She has a hard-hitting sharp voice...kind of like a "Whip"...So you are on the dance floor and her voice "whips" you to make sure you don't stop shaking your ass to the Pumpin' background track that has a simple repetitive piano...very effective.

# 76

Artist: Cerrone

Year: 1976

"Love in C minor"

Style: Disco

France

What a stylish record this was!! A concept song...it took the whole A-side of the record. In other words, sort of like Pink Floyed but in Disco Music. Now this is a lesson in sexy music. The record starts without any music ....just these girls chatting in a club, having a girl talk about all the things they are going to do to this guy they've set their eyes on. As the guy finally makes his move towards the girls, a bass drum soo loud like you have never heard insistently pumps out of the speakers. The chosen girl tells the other girls to "Buzz off" and lucious string sections gives forth to some major "rumpo"! And then when he is done with the first girl, like any young french male he has to go after the next girl....like this for 17 minutes.

# 77

Artist: masini

Year: 1991

Country: Italy

LP

Some guy...literaly "shouting" during these power ballad performances... He makes his performances so real....that you actually feel you are living these stories about "putanas con magnifiche sedere".

# 78

Stock Aitken and Waterman

Year: 1989

single 45rpm

Madrid..the spring...the park (casa de campo)...

# 79

Monica Naranjo

Year: 1997

single

She has this "vicious" flamenco voice and attitude in her singing...
Put this at the service of a "vicious" hi-house dance track and burn baby burn

# 80

Artist: 883 (italy)

LP: 1994 Remix

Single: Nella Notte (Mollela remix)

Killer Killer house remix of this italian band

This kicks butt so hard, that you don't have to worry about

not understanding italian

# 81

Artist: Pozzoli, silver

Year: 1985

Italy

"Around my Dream"

Oh..memories...
What a classic..!!
Number one around continental Europe with hardly a promotional
budget. This record was THAT good!
Italo disco classic

# 82

Artist:Max Him (italy)

1985

Single: Lady Fantasy

Italo Disco Synth Heaven

Uuuhhmm that 1-8 1-8 RYTHM track!!

There also was a full length LP for this artist (Danger Danger?)
cruisin' records

# 83

pausini

Year: 2000

Tra te e il mar (between you and the see)
Italy
I had pretty much given up on this girl and her songwriters (Valsiglio - Cheope)
who had captivated us in 1994-95 with her first 2 italian language albums.
But now she's back in shape with this classic ballad.
I was impressed with her spanish too!

# 84

Artist: phats & small

Year: 1999

UK

Got to turn around

Filter disco...i.e pinches an old disco record
dropping over it a heavy house beat
with hipnotic classic results.

# 85

Artist: mango

italy

Australia

1984

# 86

Artist: venditti

"Buona Domenica"

italy

Year 1979

# 87

Artist: bano, al
italy

sempre sempre

1985?

produced by germany's italo disco producer Anthony Monn

# 88

Artist: chicane

"dont give up"
2000.
love the bubbly key board lines

# 89

Artist: Grecas

"Te estoy amando locamente"

Year: 1974

Spain

# 90

Artist: carlos berlanga

Year: 1994

spain

"Tazas de te'"

LP: Indicios

Dance-Pop classic sing a- long tunes

# 91

Artist: IVAN

Year: 1984

Spain

fotonovela
Italo disco from Spain #8 in Germany #1 in France