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

The first actual post is about some rare finnish disco-rock cov­er­song called ‘Naisen Haluan’ (= I want a woman) by Jakke & Jokke.
I found this song cou­ple of years ago from the album ‘Hit­ti­paraati 10′ (1979) which is a com­pi­la­tion of finnish pop songs. This ‘Hit­ti­paraati 10′ was actu­ally in a sleeve of ‘The best of Italo-Disco vol. 10′ which I found from local second-hand shop.

The song sounds kind of like Prince and to be exact, his Jamie Starr pseu­do­nym in side­pro­ject called ‘The Time’.
Espe­cially the vocals but the rest of track is much more heav­ier with gui­tars and stuff. The elec­tric bass sounds good. It has a short synth­solo towards to the end but it leaves you demand­ing more of it.

Jakke & Jokke — Naisen Haluan 320 kb/sec

There aren’t much infor­ma­tion about the per­form­ers Jakke & Jokke. Jokke is a pseu­do­nym for Jorma Sep­pälä and he has arranged cou­ple of songs for euro­vi­sion con­test in 1985. It seems that they did not make it to the main con­test. It also appears that they have had some kind of con­nec­tion with Danny and Kirka. Jokke has com­posed few songs for Kirka and been also singing in the back­ground. They are musi­cians at the very least.

As I said at the begin­ning, ‘Naisen Haluan’ is actu­ally a cover of Supercharge’s ‘I can see right through you’ from the album ‘Bodyrhythm’ (Vir­gin 12118, 1979).

Super­charge is kind of British disco-rock band on Vir­gin label in late 1970’s led by Robert John “Mutt” Lange.

Super­charge — I Can See Right Through You (320kbps 16mb)

The orig­i­nal song is much longer clock­ing over 6 min­utes while the finnish cover is 3 min­utes. The lat­ter part of the song con­sists breaks and stuff, ready to be sam­pled and suit­able for doing remake or edit or what­ever. There exists 12″ and 7″ of ‘Naisen Haluan’ with cat­a­log# Polar­vox rps 130. If any­body has a spare copy, please send me e-mail. The Super­charge sin­gle is not that rare if you look into right places. But beware, some peo­ple ask over 50 pounds of it while oth­ers are sat­is­fied with 5.