Gosh! This time we got a what-the-fuck-italodisco track titled ‘Fol­low Me’ by Car­rara. This track belongs to the cat­e­gory when things go so bad that it becomes good. This track is also a good sur­vey to deter­mine how deep you are in the italoshit. It’s also a good mea­sure­ment of your sense of humour!

Yes, this is the back cover the sin­gle. I think it’s among the lamest cov­ers I’ve ever seen. You can’t pos­si­bly look more dull, can you ? Quite often it’s other way around. The duller cover, the greater tune but in this case the cover applies pretty much to the music aswell.

Car­rara — Fol­low Me (discomix)

Ok. First thing that expresses itself to the ear is tempo. Is this sup­posed to be really dance­able dis­co­mu­sic? It hardly beats the 100 beats per minute (and I think I might have recorded this track with pitch +3 or +4 by acci­dent). It’s more suit­able for played as the last one of the night (Illan viimeinen hidas) if you know what I mean. Hands in the back pocket of your jeans.

Yeah, so far noth­ing fancy, nice bon­gos and typ­i­cal italo drum­sounds and synths with very generic pre­set sounds. 0:43 first “Herostab” as those synth stabs are called by some peo­ple. Nice but what hap­pens at 1:03 ? Sud­denly a jolly melody comes out of the closet and totally changes the mood of the track! With this track, you really can’t pre­dict what’s the next thing to come. And then it hap­pens again! What’s with the heavy gui­tar at 1:22? Accept­able in the 80s? Phew!

My favourite thing about this track is prob­a­bly the horn/brass sound that appears first at 1:35. It kind of reminds me of Kirka’s ‘Surun pyy­hit silmistäni’ song (check the horns right at the beginning).

As if it wasn’t enough, again the track catches you off-guard! Sud­denly a piano starts rolling out at 1:41. Now that could be straight out from Emmerdale tv-theme with 3x herostabs and added heavy gui­tar! Cold-blooded italodisco as I would say.

If you sur­vived to this point and enjoyed, you’ll also have fun with the rest of the track. Per­son­ally I rec­om­mend lis­ten­ing this in the most ter­ri­ble hang­over. It works.
For more fun of the same stuff check these videos:

I think they are on to some stuff. Check the expres­sion on the guys face.

Sig (named after Schweiz­erische Industrie-Gesellschaft) is a pop band from Raisio, Fin­land. The band was founded as a punk/new wave band late 70s. They (Matti Ink­i­nen and Matti Ranta) wanted to set up a band which would be “Ramones from Raisio” pow­ered with synths (Ramones on synths? Kom­pleksi anybody)?

I haven’t really lis­tened to their other tracks but I have a hunch, a good hunch. Basi­cally, it is quite generic pop-rock but they have man­aged to work out an inter­est­ing piece of music. “Älä sinä huoli” (= Don’t you worry) has a vocoder in it. Albeit a poor one but still! And of course a lit­tle of syn­the­siz­ers and syn­thetic bass. The singing is just infer­nal but as a whole the track man­ages to enter­tain. Dur­ing the time (1983), usage of vocoder was quite rare in pop­u­lar music I think. At least in Finnish music. Per­haps there is an option to arrange remix or edit? Per­haps, maybe, certainly!

Well here is the piece. Enjoy if you dare.

Sig — Älä sinä huoli (2:57) 5mb