PREMIERE : Giovanni Damico - Fall in the Groove

Star Creature and Giovanni Damico present a 3 x7s bundle. With over 40 vinyl releases over the past 15 years, there is a pretty good chance you’ve encountered a Giovanni Damico record at a club, in a record shop and probably even within your own DJ bag. The self-taught, multi-instrumentalist is a one-man disco band with an endless appetite for exploring underground funky sounds with genre-defying energy. In 2019, Damico found a home base with Star Creature and together they share an affinity for new takes on the classic sounds of Boogie, Synth Funk and Chicago House. The latest release collects several of the most in demand and out of print works over the past 5 years and reassembles them as 7”s for the first time. The set features a highlight of Giovanni’s styles including top shelf modern boogie, authentically primitive Chicago / Italo proto house and Nigerian via NYC disco bangers. This is a must-have set for upper crust selectors and connectors and will surely leave us all salivating until the next SC GD Collab Slab hits! Fall In The Groove - Supreme Italo-Boogie 2-sider 7” double banger from the long out of print Fall In The Groove LP. The A Side gives us a slice of Psychedelic Boogie that is continentally agnostic - hard to tell if this cut is from the future or something that belongs on Brand New Wayo Volume 2. The B Side hits us with an Afro-Italo smacker that's already been known to fill floors from Orange County to Lyon, Salerno to Berlin, Tokyo to Rio. Housed in a replica 7" Jacket and ready for trouble. The Power / Analog Session – Proper Chicago proto-house from Salerno. Damico is basically an honorary Chicago Native. “I don’t think he’s ever been to Chicago but he certainly has status on all sides of the City” says Tim Zawada. Outside of the first-gen Warehouse / Music Box / Power Plant attendees, Giovanni just seems to “get it” while expanding and innovating. That perfect blend of tracky Italo early drum machine bang the box type of proto house electro soul. For the first time on 7", Damico's epic ‘The Power’ gets an edit ready to be stuffed into your Tucker & Bloom and carted all over the world. B Side hits us with an insane wobbly analog proto-electro number perfect for dance floor exorcism exercises. Night Time - New School aspiring Nigerian boogie inspirations. Giovanni Damico strikes it hot again with his cult classic ‘Night Time’ inspired by Italians and Nigerians interpretations of the American disco and boogie scene of the late 70s and 80s. Damico pulls the band together for major vibes on Star Creature. "We put out the instrumental as a digital only bonus and I've been hit up almost weekly since asking for a proper vinyl release - doubles necessary to run it back” Says Tim.