"In 1990, unbeknownst to the rest of the world, techno invaded Rome... "

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Urbanomic Between Possession and Depression: The Dark Continuum of Roman Techno

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A typical product of 1970s Italy, giallo movies were first and foremost a death trip into the abyss of the psyche, a feast of blood and perversion imbued with a heavy dose of LSD. Twenty years later, the Sound of Rome updated the giallo sensibility to be compatible with the cast-iron will of the machine, messing up the circuitry of the human brain with a quasi-sadistic taste for grim obsession and dead-end insanity. Its mental qualities perhaps explain why the Sound of Rome never seemed interested in trying to sound blatantly ‘futuristic’. At its core, to quote one of Lory D’s infamously delirious texts, were the labyrinths of ‘the metropolis of the mind’.

After all, Rome wasn’t a vast, grey industrial metropolis like London or Detroit. It was a neglected city of ruins on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, baked by the deadly rays of a tyrannical Black Sun, its peripheries an infinite sprawl where time is eternal and the future never arrives because it has already taken place in some long forgotten past.
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william_kent

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Italy was a nexus for smack smuggling

hence 'cosmic'



Cosmic C 006 - Daniele Baldelli & Claudio Tosi Brandi (1980)​


Sade would fly in to Lazize and buy up all the tin foil and lighters ( or so I heard made up to wind up regular posters )
 
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Like the well-loved children's TV character from yesteryear, but made to sound a bit pornographic and badass.

Devastatingly clever, really.

Edit: says "Mr. Tea."
 
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Torazine’s last issue appeared in late 2001 right after the 9/11 attacks, when the illegal rave scene—now at odds with the new culture of ‘free tekno’ imported by British travellers Spiral Tribe—was falling into decline thanks to too many drugs and increasingly predictable music. At this point, the dark continuum found new heroes in TruceKlan, a horrorcore rap gang whose members had been initiated into the synthetic paradises of those same abandoned factories where the illegal rave scene had once held court (Matteo Swaitz, TruceKlan’s official music video director, later a convert to the porn industry, was one of the original minds behind Torazine and an early pioneer of the ‘illegal’ credo).

Like a @william_kent anecdote.
 
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I was going to say I couldn't imagine anything worse than Italian horrorcore rap, but I have multiple Jesus Franco boxsets so...


I once saw a documentary about pre op Brazilian male to female trans women where they said that Italy was where they earned the cash for the snip because Italian men are the 'most perverted on earth"

edit: each to their own, no judgement on my part, etc
 
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"Its mental qualities perhaps explain why the Sound of Rome never seemed interested in trying to sound blatantly ‘futuristic’."
I'm gonna call bullshit on that.
After all, LD's first release is "We Are in the Future" and releasing a record named "Future Dance Floor" on the future-obsessed pcp label, adrenacrome.
 
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william_kent said:
I was going to say I couldn't imagine anything worse than Italian horrorcore rap

I once saw a documentary about pre op Brazilian male to female trans women where they said that Italy was where they earned the cash for the snip because Italian men are the 'most perverted on earth"
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"Bring in the perverts!"

 
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Torazine’s last issue appeared in late 2001 right after the 9/11 attacks, when the illegal rave scene—now at odds with the new culture of ‘free tekno’ imported by British travellers Spiral Tribe—was falling into decline thanks to too many drugs and increasingly predictable music. At this point, the dark continuum found new heroes in TruceKlan, a horrorcore rap gang whose members had been initiated into the synthetic paradises of those same abandoned factories where the illegal rave scene had once held court (Matteo Swaitz, TruceKlan’s official music video director, later a convert to the porn industry, was one of the original minds behind Torazine and an early pioneer of the ‘illegal’ credo).

Like a @william_kent anecdote.
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In 2014, after more than a decade of lust, excess, drug-induced paranoia, and psychosis, TruceKlan finally passed the dark continuum’s baton to Dark Polo Gang, a trap crew whose producer (the now famous—at least in Italy—Sick Luke) was the young son of a former TruceKlan affiliate, and whose unswerving devotion to darkside prosecuted a now forty-year-long alliance between low-spirited states of mind and synthetic sound.




 
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