Tell us a little about why you started Italians Do It Better, an offshoot of your noise/rock label, Troubleman Unlimited?

It was started because we felt glass candy wasnt getting enough props because TMU was being pigeonholed as a rock label. it worked!

From your roots in hardcore and punk, can you tell us when your interest in disco started and why?

It started back in the late 80s when i was working at nightclubs in NYC. searching out hip hop and funk samples before the internet wasnt easy. i found a lot of samples were from disco, and i noticed how much house was borrowing from disco… this was 1988 or so.

Can you give us five of your favourite hardcore tracks?

-FAITH / VOID lp
-DRI Dealing With It lp
-NEGATIVE FX lp
-KRAKDOWN 1988 demo
-GORILLA BISCUITS start today lp

We’ve read that you were fortunate enough to have experienced such legendary clubs as CBGBs and The Loft. Can you share some of your favourite experiences in those exciting clubs of NYC?

i used to go to CBGB every sunday afternoon for the hardcore matinees from 1987-1990. then i went to ABCNORIO shows because CBGB started getting a little too violent. that was some of the best times in my opinion. it was so great. i went out at night to MARS (where i worked as a promoter). my job entailed handing out fliers at other clubs. i was only 17 so i couldnt get real jobs at the clubs.. but i went to all the clubs from the heyday of the NY club scene… it was such a good time. the late 80s was the end of the grit in NYc

Can you tell us a little about how you ended up recording for Italians Do It Better?

It was one of the simplest and most straight-forward thing ever. I sent No Static to them via myspace and they immediately said they wanted to release it.

Most of your records have a distinct ‘horror’ theme. Can you tell us a little about this obsession? Does film influence you as much as music?

I can only tell you my personal experience, which could maybe be share manyd by other Italian producers born in the mid/late 1970s. All through the 80’s and 90’s small private tv channels in Italy were showing B movies at night, very many sci-fi and horror flicks. I guess those local stations didn’t have the money to purchase big films. All the Italian and American horror masters of the 70s and 80s got massive airtime in those years! So I think that music music got under my skin somehow.

While working on the Horror Disco album I researched many Italian movies, giallos, slasher movies, cheap sci-fi flicks that I thought I would need to watch. Often I released that I had seen them already on tv when I was a kid!

We’re sure compatriots such Fabio Frizzi, Claudio Simonetti and Goblin are influences, but are there any others that have helped inspire the Bottin sound?

Amongst Italians, Celso Valli e Mauro Malavasi’s productions are a big influence. But my favorite band is actually the all-american Steely Dan.

Can you tell us what your five favourite giallo/horror films are?

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse by Fritz Lang
Non Si Sevizia Un Paperino (Don’t Torture a Duckling) by Lucio Fulci
Prince Of Darkness by John Carpenter
Buio Omega (Beyond The Darkness) by Joe D’Amato
Operazione Paura (Kill baby kill) by Mario Bava

Bleep.com is an online music store. As a retailer of music and media from some of the worlds best independent record labels (predominantly electronic music), Bleep has developed over it’s 5 year history culminating in the merging of Bleep.com and Warpmart.com earlier this year.

There are 2 positions that are available.

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Label Relations

Bleep is looking for a bright, enthusiastic intern to join the team for a minimum of 2 days a week for a minimum of 2 months to assist in content and label management. This will involve immersing yourself in the Bleep catalogue and assisting in ensuring it is cataloged and maintained to a high standard. All we require is a genuine passion for music and a desire to work in the digital sphere. However advantageous skills include, a high level of ability using computers including HTML/XML/CSS, a wide knowledge of music and attention to detail.

Applicants should send a C.V. and covering letter to info@bleep.com.

Travel expenses included
Based: Kentish Town – North London

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Marketing Intern

Bleep is looking for a bright, enthusiastic intern to join the team for a minimum of 2 days a week for a minimum of 2 months to assist with online marketing. This will role will be working with the marketing team, assisting with both the weekly running of the store and lending a hand with one off projects and features. We require is a genuine passion for music and a desire to work in the digital sphere. A successful applicant will be both creative andself-driven. However advantageous skills include, a high level of ability using computers including photoshop, illustrator and, HTML, and attention to detail.

Applicants should send a C.V. and covering letter to info@bleep.com.

Travel expenses included
Based: Kentish Town – North London

Those good folks at Numbers are throwing a party in Glasgow this weekend to celebrate the launch of Hudson Mohawke’s forthcoming “Butter” album.

We have managed to grab a pair of tickets for this, and are kind enough to be giving it away to one lucky person. To win, simply e-mail info@bleep.com and tell us why or explain why you like butter… Honestly, just tell us why you like it.

Bleep.com presents The Warp Shop
Friday 18th-Sunday 19th September, Sheffield

Located in The Forum, we will be officially re-opening the legendary Warp store for only 3 days, selling exclusive Warp and non-Warp CDs, vinyl, t-shirts and merchandise. We will be displaying props and artifacts from some of the most classic Warp music videos and films.

We will also be featuring free instore performances, signings and competitions from Maxïmo Park. Harmonic 313, Bleep and Warp DJs, plus more very special surprise guests to be announced.

Follow us on twitter.com/BleepBot to receive up-to-date information of the weekend’s proceedings.

If you have bought a ticket in the last few days for the show at Magna, then you will be able to pick up your tickets in person at the shop. Also, there will be tickets available to buy in person from the Warp Shop for any of you last-minuters…

And to finish the weekend in style, we will be hosting the final closing party for the weekends proceedings…

Bleep.com will also be hosting the Official Warp20 (Sheffield) Closing Party
Sunday 19th September, The Forum Bar
7pm – 1AM, FREE ENTRY

DJ E.A.S.E. (Nightmares on Wax)
Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire)
Rustie (Wireblock / Warp Records)
+ Bleep / Warp DJs

A self initiated, collaborative project between Give Up Art and photographer Shaun Bloodworth. They spent seven days in LA, documenting some of the leading lights of the underground electronic scene. Here is a few of them…

(From Top: Flying Lotus; Matthew David, Daedelus, Ras G)

Bleep have teamed up with those good folk at Field Day to offer you a unique prize. Anyone that buys a ticket for Field Day will be immediately entered into a competition to win the special “Golden Ticket” or to be more specific, “Golden Rosette”.

Brought to you by London’s most daring promoters Adventures In The Beetroot Field, Bugged Out, Bloggers Delight and Eat Your Own Ears, Field Day transform the heart of East London into a Village Fete.

Away from the stages featuring UK festival exclusives from Mogwai and Santigold, plus Little Boots, The Horrors,Fennesz, Toumani Diabate, The Errors, Four Tet, Erol Alkan, and much more, the masses can get into a ‘village mentality’ – a reminder of life’s simpler pleasures with countrified fun and games on the Village Green area.

The Bleep exclusive Golden Rosette will win you a free go on an activity of your choice (Onion Peeling, Giant Pick and Mix, Pea Shelling, the infamous Lucky Dip, etc); a free slice of cake; a set of Field Day tea towels; one potato sack, one real ale voucher and a Warp t-shirt and some Bleep goodies thrown in for good measure.

The lucky winner will be picked from all the people who purchase a Field Day ticket on Bleep and will contacted by e-mail. They will be able to pick up their Golden Rosette on the guestlist door at the event. So go and quickly buy your tickets HERE.

From the Motown audition in 1968. Performing James Brown’s “I Got The Feelin” – aged 10.

… absolutely tore it down at Sonar festival. Check out more of their music HERE.