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23/05/2012

Church of Noise

Song of the day is "Church of Noise (Acustic Version)"


IT'S OLD!
Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo!
The man with the mask that comes from Bassano

Today I'll tell you about a great personality from Bassano del Grappa.
A small town becomes the Rifo Bob has always been very active in the field of art, went close soon.
Ever since 2007, has been releasing music under the name "Bloody Beetroots", quickly becoming - through word of mouth spontaneous international network of blogs - one of the most popular producers of electro-punk-dance scene.
His strength, in addition to the firepower of music, is the conceptual approach and rigorous Rifo has the "make" art. From the choice of going out in public only ever masked (in the early DJ sets with his partner Tommy Tea defilatosi then).
The smoothie danzabilità and noise has rapidly come the sounds of Bob the ears of the likes of Steve Aoki (which has been put under contract to his label Dim Mak) and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue matterista former, which has often accompanied live.
Both are among the first followers of the "Church of Noise" philosophical movement founded by Rifo diffonre for the crossover between the arts, first of all his favorite (after music): photography.
Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo decided to delight us with an alternative in acoustic version of that bomb in Church of Noise. Given the generally very similar, I asked about the DJ and producer Barbar! and today gives us the opportunity to benefit from it all.

http://soundcloud.com/thebloodybeetroots/the

Performed by Dennis Lyxzén, Maria Magdalena, Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo e Thomas Roussel.

Robin Gibb is dead

Robin Gibb, one of the founding members of the Bee Gees, passed away today at the age of 62 after a long battle with cancer.
Family spokesman Doug Wright said in a statement:


“The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery. The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.”


Rolling Stone reports that Gibb had surgery in 2010 to fix a twisted bowel, the same condition that killed his twin brother Maurice. Gibb recovered from the surgery but doctor’s later found a growth in his colon. Gibb started treatment and seemed to be doing well, but earlier this year he slipped into a coma where he contracted pneumonia.


His family, wife Dwina, daughter Melissa, sons Spencer and Robin-John, and his brother Barry, the last surviving member of iconic disco group, held a bedside vigil while he was at the hospital in London and eventually Gibb woke from his coma, supposedly from the sound of his own music. 


Unfortunately, Gibb never fully recovered from his brush with death.


ABC reports that Gibb and the Bee Gees sold more than 200 million albums. The 1979 soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” won the band a Grammy, and for a year, it was the top selling album in history. (It was unseated in 1980 by Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.)

Goodbye!

That premier disco queen and conduit for decades of dance-music advancement Donna Summer at age 63. She had cancer.
Summer's career flourished in the late '70s and early '80s when she helped define the very concept of dance diva. "MacArthur Park," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls" and her duet with Barbra Streisand, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" all went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but other singles of hers gained reputations that couldn't be measured by chart performance. Her breakthrough, 1975's "Love to Love You Baby," was 17 minutes of midtempo disco euphoria over which Summer purred and repeatedly climaxed (Time magazine counted 22 orgasms).

"I Feel Love," the first major hit to sport an entirely synthesized backing track, simply revolutionized music. Electronic disco followed then house then techno, all in major debt of Summer's collaboration with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. You can still hear its influence in the arpeggiated strains of the pop trance that's all over radio today. Though Summer didn't get a production credit on "I Feel Love," she took a risk on a wild idea and changed music history, much like Aaliyah, years later, would do when she was among the earliest to give a go at Timbaland's game-changing, skittering take on R&B. Sometimes being a trailblazer comes down to picking the best vehicle.

Summer's career faded soon after disco did in the mainstream, though she had a few hits sprinkled throughout the '80s, chiefly "She Works Hard for the Money" and her collaboration with British dance factory foremen Stock Aitken Waterman, "This Time I Know It's for Real." Released in 1989, that would be the last time she appeared in the U.S. pop Top 10.

Her career was overshadowed by alleged anti-gay remarks that she'd go on to deny having made (she reportedly settled out of court with New York magazine after suing them for printing the rumor). It did a little to alienate her fanbase, but not enough to revoke her crown as the queen of disco divas. Similarly, her music often overshadowed her powerhouse voice, the picture of clarity, control and force. As a listener, to isolate her vocals in the context of her music can be startling — they sound like an explosion set off by an effortless pull of a trigger.

Regarding her gift, Summer recalled, "One day I was at church and I was singing, and I had been practicing, Mahalia Jackson was my idol. I stood up to sing and all of a sudden, this voice came out that I didn't know. It just came out of me." And now, just like that, it's gone.

Summer and her producer Giorgio Moroder defined the dance music era of the '70s and influenced acts like Duran Duran and David Bowie to enter the genre.
She continued her dominance in the '80s with "She Works Hard for the Money" and "This Time I Know It's for Real."

We had the pleasure of shooting Donna back in 2009 on her way out of Mr Chow ... and she couldn't have been nicer.

Summer married Brooklyn Dreams singer Bruce Sudano back in 1980. They had two daughters together. 

Smiling, waving and signing for fans as me...

Goodbye!

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