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Posted: Oct. 06 2023, 11:34

I haven't seen this posted before - apologies if it has been.

https://bestrecord.bandcamp.com/album/incantations-bst-x056

"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 plush cosmic disco burner that rides a slow tempo but hits heavy with its rich layers of synth and slick guitar licks. Best are giving it a fresh airing with this on-point reissue, bringing the chugging bass arps back into the fold of a sympathetic scene that celebrates just this kind of evocative, sensual slow-mo party fodder. The original mix elevates in the second half with a soaring vocal from Stefania Dal Pino, but if that doesn't appeal there's a purely instrumental take on the B side that focuses purely on the groove."

"released February 14, 2021"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImgdqEVVEM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQxF7S1Qy8s

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Posted: Oct. 06 2023, 15:19

Nice, but also kinda shit. I recognize the bass sound from a Roland Jupiter-4!

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Posted: Oct. 22 2023, 14:36

Yes I've heard this before...perversely I quite like it (though would have preferred it without the Foreign Affair excerpts).

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Posted: Oct. 28 2023, 22:29

Thank you for that....It sounds absolutely excellent in my opinion - very evocative of the era and it fits the tune perfectly, the way they've produced and arranged it. Nothing about that doesn't insist "top 20 hit material" to me...In an alternate timeline, I don't see why a 4 minute edit of that without or without vocals, or possibly used as a theme to a fantasy/thriller/giallo movie from that decade, whether Italian or otherwise - the types of movies Goblin and Tangerine Dream scored in their sleep for fun - couldn't easily have become a classic of its age.

Although I agree the "Foreign Affair" interpolation doesn't work; not least because the vocals are pretty atrocious and inappropriately out of place. Is the singer Japanese..?

PS set playback at 1.25 for another idea of what it could have sounded like as an all-out DJ/dancefloor/disco themed track.

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