137 | blondo connolly – the lost rimini tapes

While pulling all-nighters in the Italian club scene along the Adriatic coast throughout the early 80’s, Blondo Connolly always had Giorgio Moroder firmly in his sight, Patrick Cowley in his tape deck and the obligatory comb in his pants pocket. Through legendary sets at Mon Amour, Altromondo or Coconut, he became a celebrated regional icon, for whom international breakthrough was always less important than simply using his sound to bring rapt faces and open hearts to collective ecstasy on the dancefloor. With his tracks between new wave, balearic Italo disco and dreamy synths, he set the course for the upcoming summer of love and the club music of decades to come, thereby playing his way into the hearts of all those for whom disco, grand emotions and progressive club sound opened the door to a whole new form of escapist club experience in which one could lose oneself completely. The Lost Rimini tapes prove once again that, Blondo is a musical genius who has never received the recognition he clearly deserved. He also turns out to be an early adopter of the TB-303, which is embedded so nonchalantly into these soulful arrangements that one can legitimately ask the question, whether we may have just made all this up and, in the end, this eclectic EP may simply be the product of the secret Italo-passion of an old Broque companion. Anyway, all of that doesn’t really matter as long as the Lost Rimini tapes celebrate the legend of Blondo Connolly and the early Italo sound of the 80s so empathetically that we want to jump right into our gleamy Golf convertible and drive towards a gorgeous Italian sunset.

written, performed, produced and mixed by Blondo Connolly
artwork by Blondo Connolly
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some feedback:

MY FAVORITE ROBOT / FUMOIR / MY FAVORITE ROBOT RECORDS, BEACHCOMA Really nice EP, I like all the cuts here, thanks! – STUART BRUCE / CHAIN DLK Downloading for possible review on ChainDLK.com – TRICKYDISCO! / EMF MAG Nice! – CHRISTIAN TJABEN / BYTE.FM ok – RODERICH FABIAN / BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK bondage – JOHN DIGWEED / BEDROCK RECORDS downloading – CARL CRAIG / PLANET-E dl 4 erno thx! – SEBASTIAN / F.A.R.E.S / BASS AND SPACE nice one, thanks! – JON FREER / FREER SOUNDS The Last Night At Bagno 36 is great. – MC.FRIGO / ARD Disco! – B3ATVISION / BEAT VISION nice disco – AURELIO CIANCIOTTA / WICKED STYLE full support… – SAMMY W & ALEX E / BUNNY TIGER, INCORRECT MUSIC, LOULOU RECORDS, 8BIT, TOBUS great release, will give it a go – STEVEN GOSZMANN / RADIO FUNKWERK cooool – ACID WASHED / RECORD MAKERS GOOD!!! & FRESH!!! – DANIEL MONACO / SLOW MOTION, WONDER STORIES, BORDELLO A PARIGI Autostrada! – MAETRIK / MACEO PLEX / MOTHERSHIP, DUMB UNIT, CROSSTOWN REBELS, TREIBSTOFF Downloaded for Maceo Plex/Mariel to, thanks for the music! – RSS DISCO / MIREIA, RSS DISCOVERY this is great! all four songs rub me the right way! – OPEN EAR MUSIC SUBMISSIONS / OPEN EAR MUSIC Autostrada – great track! – AUDIO JUNKIES / DIYNAMIC MUSIC, SUARA, LAPSUS MUSIC nice vibes thanks! – DUBIKS STAFF / DUBIKS We Will Support, Spin on Connectfm (Tracks of the Week) podcast & Dubiks Spotify Playlist – ANDREW CLARISTIDGE / WYN&M, BANANAMANIA, RECORD MAKERS, MILLE FEUILLES FUN FUN FUN !!! – GABRIEL FERREIRA / NINEFONT, ITEMS & THINGS love it! – HYRICZ / MINIMATICA RADIO SHOW, DIGITALLY IMPORTED RADIO Nice EP, will try it. Thanks. – KEVIN PRESS / EXCLAIM CA, BADD PRESS, THE MODERNS Thanks, K.