Artists Profile

Current Location :: Italy 

Music Genres :: Italian Disco

A premonitory one of the Italian goddesses-jay... ha begun when still not there were neither mixer neither cap! Before years seventy the discotheque did not exist. In "it knows them from dance" reigned music from the alive one. Subsequently, they were begun to dance discs, in alternative or like musical pause of the orchestras. Here to esordire the first goddesses-jay. They had "to put on" discs, simply one after the other... Daniel Baldelli at least begins its career in 1969 (as "you put discs" had not been still coined the Disc-Jockey word, in Italy) to the Taboo club of Catholic, on the adriatic coast. The discs were all 45 turns of rock, funk & soul.

The trade of the DJ was still all to invent, Daniel Baldelli was alone: with its fantasy, its wants of music, its technical search, the passion and the instinct, has experienced all the musical styles without having modules or models of reference. In 1970 the music that Daniel played, could perhaps be divided in two great types: music White woman, of European origin, and Black music of origin American. He always speaks himself about 45 turns and Americans stirred themselves of European discs, that they were nearly always canzonette glad and trades them, with discs soul, rhythm&blues and funky of artists which: Arthur Conley, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Rufus Thomas, Lyn Collins, etc. Naturally to reperire this material was not always easy.

Daniel frequently went to Lugano and Paris where he succeeded in reperire import discs. An other particular one of the evenings in discotheque in years 70 was that the fast music that was danced as "shake" it came alternated from discs of a valve. The proportion was of 5 shake and 5 discs of a valve, then, with passing of the years, thirty minuteren of shake and 3 discs of a valve. In 1977-78 it lands to the Bay of the Angels (with to an other dj, Claudius Rispoli, in Mozart art). It was the period of the disc music and the philadelphia sound. It comes therefore noticed and engaged for being the dj resident of the COSMIC that comes inaugurated in you open them 1979. And it is here that that incredible phenomenon is born that came then called "AFRO" and more recently "COSMIC SOUND".

The "africanismo "Daniel Baldelli, expressed it when it played the Bolero di Ravel overlapping it to a brano of Africa Djola, or a piece experiences them of Steve Reich on which mixava a" Malinke song "of New Guinea. Mixando the T-Connection with Moebious and Rodelius, discovering in the album Izitso the only ipnotico-tribale brano of Cat Steven, extracting Africa in the Depeche Mode playing them to 33 turns or viceversa making to become music one played voice reggae to 45 turns, mixando one score of brani Africans on one same pattern of battery electronic or playing with one batucada with Kraftwerk, using the electronic effects of a sintetizzatore for sovrapporli to brani of Miram Makeba, Jorge Ben or Fela Kuti or still listening to the Indian melodie of Hofra Haza or Sheila Chandra with the sonorità electronic of the Sky German Record. Armed with its plates Technics Sp-15, battery electronic Korg, sintetizzatore Yamaha, the first rudimentali samplers and insepara- the equalizzatore bile Teac, Daniel Baldelli begins one experimentation total stirring entirety funky, reggae, jazz, fusion, brasil, dub, etno, tribale. All abundantly accompanied from music the electronic one and one maniacale predilezione for the "mixaggio": all this has rendered it sure indiscusso a founder...!!!