A REAL challenge...

[ecksemmess]

Here's a sample of a tune I've been trying like crazy to ID for some time now. It's from an Italian mix circa 1984. Old stuff. I'll be very pleasantly surprised if anyone actually has any idea :)

[Konspiracy]

If this is Italo Disco I seriously recommend you go see Pauli at www.discogs.com

The man is a guru on that era

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[ecksemmess]

If this is Italo Disco I seriously recommend you go see Pauli at www.discogs.com

The man is a guru on that era

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:


Thanks mate!

In the meantime... anyone else have an idea about this track?

[BUNKERHEADZ]

This is more 'rock' from the 80's, don't think Pauli will know this . . . but you can always try him as he indeed knows his stuff very well :thumbsup:

[Hiphoused]

This sounds very much like Mike Oldfield in his era of Tubular bells. I don't really like his works of that type, but he surely recorded some of them on Circa label. What else was on that mix?

[djpepsi]

thats gotta be mike oldfield at 45, the modulation's are going at about 100mph!

[ecksemmess]

Sounds A TON like Oldfield to me too mates, but I've got virtually everything the man has ever done and checked it all! It may be that he has some obscure singles I don't have, though...

As for the other tracks in this same mix, it was very eclectic and full of obscure Italian tracks. Some disco-ish stuff, and some other stuff more like the sample I posted. DJs were Ebreo and "Tom Percussion" (??) live at Club Chicago in Italy, 1984.

[Pauli]

:$

Sounds to me as Mike Oldfield / Goblin kinda music
so maybe Goblin is the way to go (Goblins is Italian - "obscure Italian tracks")
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Goblin
http://www.goblin.org/

Good luck!
Paul

[ecksemmess]

:$

Sounds to me as Mike Oldfield / Goblin kinda music
so maybe Goblin is the way to go (Goblins is Italian - "obscure Italian tracks")
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Goblin
http://www.goblin.org/

Good luck!
Paul

Many thanks!

[Konspiracy]

:$

Sounds to me as Mike Oldfield / Goblin kinda music
so maybe Goblin is the way to go (Goblins is Italian - "obscure Italian tracks")
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Goblin
http://www.goblin.org/

Good luck!
Paul

A Big Welcome to Pauli, nice to have you on here :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Pauli]

Thx mate :)
Never been here before, but tuneid, heh, that's kinda what I like to do all the time!

[ilovepiano]

Can't help with an ID as such, but I reckon it's deffo being played at 45.

This is your sample as it would sound being played at 33 :thumbsup:

[ecksemmess]

Can't help with an ID as such, but I reckon it's deffo being played at 45.

This is your sample as it would sound being played at 33 :thumbsup:

Cool! Thanks for that.

Anyway, after a few more listens (and a few sweeps through my basically complete Mike Oldfield collection) I'm 99.9% convinced that's Mike Oldfield on the guitar. But nothing sounding like this is on any of his albums (and I have most of his singles too)... must be some very rare track, possibly unreleased or simply a collaboration (the last seems most likely).

I know, it doesn't seem very dancey or italo-y and as such perhaps not appropriate for this board... but it was in an Italo mix... :)

Interestingly, the main bell-sounding riff was sampled wholesale and used as the basis for a progressive house/trance track from 1993: Extasia - "Extasia". According to Discogs, Extasia = Alex Neri, who is very Italian. I get the feeling that whatever this track is, it was a staple of the clubs in Italy circa '84...

I would like to post all this on a board where there will be Mike Oldfield experts but I don't know of any. Hopefully I'll figure this one out someday! Wish me luck :)

[Mister_DJ]

Hi - might be worth an email to see if they know on the Mike Oldfield site?

http://www.mikeoldfield.org/

Welcome to Pauli aswell :thumbsup: You named a lot of stuff for me on discogs - thank you!! Great to have you on here!

Mart
:rolleyes: