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Various Artists - Italian Dancefloor Outsiders in the Mezzanotte Mezzogiorno Era, 1992 - 2002
Label
Sound Metaphors
Catalogue
SMR035
Eancode
No eancode
Format
12inch
Release Date
WK 37, 07 Sep 2026
Type
Import / Non-exclusive
Stock
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Various Artists

Italian Dancefloor Outsiders in the Mezzanotte Mezzogiorno Era, 1992 - 2002

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Still hot on the heels of compiling the first volume of the Italian Dancefloor Outsiders, and moved by the urge to explore new musical landscapes and discover sounds produced in subsequent years, we decided to continue our quest of tracking an alternative map of what was happen- ing in the Italian electronic music scene. This second volume takes inspiration from the concept of ?Mezzanotte Mezzogiorno? (literally ?from Midnight to Midday?), a term first used for a now legendary party held in 1992 at Club Imperi- ale in Tirrenia, Tuscany. The owner of the club, Roberto Pannocchia, was eager to attract a different kind of audience to his venue and so decided to extend the closing time until midday, well beyond the Italian law limits. But as Imperiale was a members club, he was allowed to do it, and he already knew that this act would forever shape the Italian club scene. ''Mezzanotte Mezzogiorno'' was then used to describe long dancing marathons that lasted for the whole weekend, spread across clubs, after-parties and more off-the-grid open air venues but, most of all, became the symbol of an era. The music ranged from slow, pitched-down landscapes to epic techno progressions, filling both feverishly packed big rooms and colourful chillout zones. A parabola of musical move- ments related to specific genres was born, reaching its peak and then fading towards the end of the millenium.

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