Some italo fla­vor for these dark autumn evenings. Any­one ever told you Dj:s never dance?

Kyny­Nasty Favorites #5

I’m very sorry Annie. I like you but you’re just no match to Stacey. Your cover of “Two of Hearts” is not even decent. It’s kinda lame. But hey, nice try! Tip: one might wanna try the Skate­bord remix instead.

Stacey Q — Two of Hearts (5:08) (320)

Annie — Two of Hearts (Skate­bord remix) (320)

Even more ver­sions ->

Kyny­Nasty Favorites #2

Trans-X, Italo-Disco from Canada. Their sin­gle “Liv­ing On Video” was released 1983 and it was a mas­sive hit world­wide at the time. Now Trans-X is “cel­e­brat­ing 25 years of liv­ing on video” and tour­ing world. The track is aus­pi­cious mate­r­ial for remix­ing and so it has spawned (unfor­tu­nately) many Euro Trance ver­sions. Maybe it wasn’t Gior­gio who invented the evil music called Trance after all?

There is one excep­tion though. Fidget’s cover is actu­ally quite nice synth-pop/indierock ver­sion. Espe­cially when com­par­ing to other ver­sions. It pre­serves the same spirit as the orig­i­nal and has Kraftwerk-esque robots!

Trans-X — Liv­ing On Video (320kbit)

In order to keep the bal­ance between cheesy and srsly good italo, I’ve decided to put up some of the Kyny­Nasty all-time favorite Italo-Disco/Hi-NRG songs. Love the cheesy ones all the same but in a dif­fer­ent manner.

Peter Richard’s Walk­ing In The Neon 12″ is quite rare. Discogs mar­ket­place has cur­rently sev­eral Walk­ing In The Neon 12“s on the sale prices rang­ing from 40€ to 225€. No represses except that the I-Robots col­lec­tion con­tains the club ver­sion. Lot faster (130+ bpm) than the usual 118bpm Italo stuff. Strong bassline, neon strings and of course top qual­ity male vocals about space trav­el­ing! Writ­ten by some top grade peo­ple like Franco Rago (Robot Is Sys­tem­atic) and Mauro Farina , Walk­ing In The Neon is cer­tainly one of the best.

Peter Richard — Walk­ing In The Neon (320 kbit)

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