Bottin: Horror Disco
Bottin: Horror Disco
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Wednesday, 01, Jul 2009 11:18
Bear Funk, out now .
In a nutshell...
Retro-future-horror-faced-disco
What's it all about?
Bottin's disco music is born out a morbid fascination for the dark side of the dance floor. Bashed out on analogue moogs and broken synths, Horror Disco draws bloody inspiration from John Carpenter soundtracks, vocoders and classic italo business from the likes of Giorgio Moroder and Mr Flagio. Compared with the more sunny-sided nu-disco shapes thrown by Lindstrom and Prins Thomas, this is dance music best listened to when the lights go off and there's a vampire with its teeth in your neck.
Who's it by?
Bottin aka Guglielmo Bottin is a Venetian synth freak with a taste for slasher flicks and dance floors dripping with blood. Chicken Lips DJ and Bear Funk's head bear Steve Kotey discovered Bottin at a party in Venice and hasn't been able to keep his ears offa him since. With tracks dropping on the achingly hip Italians Do it Better, Eskimo's Cosmic Balearic Beats Volume 1 and now on Kotey's Bear Funk, Bottin is well placed to be the next big cosmic futurest, albeit one equipped with an analogue cape made from the coldest of blood.
As an example...
"Down on the dance floor someone is weeping/You're at the discotheque you shouldn't be sleeping." - Disco for the Devil
Likelihood of winning a trip to the Grammys?
In a parallel dimension there hopefully exists some sort of prize for being a top notch vintage synth explorer with a passion for gory semi-pornographic shocker flicks. Until then, it's unlikely that Bottin's name is gonna be one your mum will know.
What the others say
"Bottins four-track Horror Disco album sampler for Bear Funk is a superb slice of Italian (or Italo even) originality born out of an obsession for cosmic Soundtrack's and from the experience gained from working for such diverse institutions as Richard Dorfmeister, Centro Internazionale d'Arte e Cultura Palazzo Te di Mantova, Bangorfilms and many other intriguing individuals." - Another Night on Earth blog
"What a great record. All four tracks are well produced analogue disco gems but for sheer genius I'll be playing Disco for the Devil. Best lyrics/song I've heard in ages." - Gucci Sound system - DFA
So is it any good?
With such a blatant homage to B-movies, zombie thrillers and hi-nrg disco, Bottin's full lengther was in danger of resembling a daft child at Halloween rather than the real deal - a full on disco Driller Killer. However, the big night time throbbers such as Horror Disco, Disco for the Devil and Slashdance show enough dance floor nouse to steer the whole concept away from being a cheeky pastiche.
And Bottin, who despite all the vampire baloney seems like a thoroughly normal chap, is currently making music for one of the coolest labels on earth in the form of Italians Do it Better, so his electronic credentials are full on. If you're vibing off Glass Candy, the Chromatics or Arthur Russell, then this is leather-belted noir disco you can ill afford to survive an evening without.
7/10
Jim Ottewill