Alexander Robotnick - Computer Sourire

1983 Italo Disco
www.robotnick.it

www.youtube.com/mauriziodami

Bio
The alias of jazz keyboard player and vocalist Maurizio Dami, Alexander Robotnick existed for several years during the mid-'80s as an Italian synth-pop/disco crossover for the Italian label Materiali Sonori. Robotnick enjoyed a healthy fan base far beyond Europe, however, as thousands of import copies of the single "Problèmes d'Amour" ended up influencing many later house and techno pioneers in Chicago and Detroit.

Dami, who began his musical career during the early '80s with visions of being an electronic cabaret singer, bought two Roland synthesizers (the seminal TR-808 and TB-303) to begin recording. Convinced by Materiali Sonori's Giampiero Bigazzi to move into the still fertile Italian disco scene to score a quick hit, Dami recorded "Problèmes d'Amour" and released the single on the Materiali Sonori subsidiary Fuzz Dance in 1983. It became quite an import hit in America's underground club scene, and sparked the mini-LP Ce N'est Qu'un Début that same year. Additional singles like "Computer Sourire" and "C'Est La Vie" appeared on Fuzz Dance during the mid-'80s, but Dami had already moved on by then, later recording under his own name and as GMM, then playing with the ethno-ambient band Masala in the 1990s.

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[rays130226]

I have this song on vinyl along with Problems D'Amour.

[RheingoldxxL]

I still love the 80s ... nothing can be more fit! ... or better?

[fsmorel123]

omg wow that rhythm guitar was used in a sample i've been looking for! finally!!

[fsmorel123]

@bombinthebeehive i know right?? here's some good news... there are bedroom rockers making some pretty cool stuff with this very sound, sort of new wave house music (sometimes called synth-pop) specifically any remix by "the twelves"..

[Adjslife]

Thx for tha flashback !

[djmusicjac]

oh yeah the chicago house influences can be heard in this italo house tune, i like it

[bombinthebeehive]

what the fuck happened to music today

[irishelk2]

This song is beast

[TheItalodancers]

One of the fathers of electronic actually.

Amazing years.

[legdoctor]

i have most of his vinyl releases......When i was 12 years old i used to her these tracks coming from my sisters bedroom, she was mad into his tunes.....And im crazy about them......italo is the shit!!! cheesy, but savage!!!! Stick on my wayfarer sunglasses, pink polo t-shirt buttoned to the top, skinny jeans, colourful tenis shoes...... and get down!!!

[discoverydavid]

Carl Craig sampled that first guitar riff on a '69' track called "Filter King No Highs"...

watch?v=RSafwvzHK4o