Daniele Baldelli

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Taxi Track 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Parsley 00:00 Tools
Funk Me Again 00:00 Tools
Isotropofunk 00:00 Tools
Pluton 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Tune 00:00 Tools
Mea culpa 00:00 Tools
Funky In My Soul 00:00 Tools
Kumbe 00:00 Tools
Got to Get Your Own 00:00 Tools
Corona Borealis 00:00 Tools
Funk Syndrome 00:00 Tools
Mooneyes 00:00 Tools
Cronos 00:00 Tools
Girotondo 00:00 Tools
Mamba 00:00 Tools
Explorer 00:00 Tools
Caccia Grossa 00:00 Tools
Hararibode 00:00 Tools
Electrodub 00:00 Tools
Tribalite 00:00 Tools
Urania 00:00 Tools
chop and roll 00:00 Tools
Galaksia 00:00 Tools
What Da Funk 00:00 Tools
ballbearing 00:00 Tools
Hacajaka 00:00 Tools
Java Tiger 00:00 Tools
Homo Sapiens 00:00 Tools
oleopneumatico 00:00 Tools
cosmic biker 00:00 Tools
Fontainebleau 00:00 Tools
Voodoo Drums 00:00 Tools
Rasta Funk 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Drag 00:00 Tools
Kinshasa 00:00 Tools
A Good Day 00:00 Tools
Mellow Game 00:00 Tools
Synthesized Honey 00:00 Tools
Long Funk Running 00:00 Tools
Imago 00:00 Tools
Waka Kossa 00:00 Tools
Konika 00:00 Tools
cosmic particles 00:00 Tools
Lega Metallica 00:00 Tools
Voltage Groove 00:00 Tools
Casiopea 00:00 Tools
Zaffiro 00:00 Tools
cosmic glide 00:00 Tools
Funky Cake 00:00 Tools
Aragonite 00:00 Tools
Gandharva 00:00 Tools
Walking Down 00:00 Tools
Lowride 00:00 Tools
space dumper 00:00 Tools
Sharmila 00:00 Tools
Wawa Kossa 00:00 Tools
Funky Juice 00:00 Tools
Desmodromico 00:00 Tools
Break Loose 00:00 Tools
Perkutosofono 00:00 Tools
Makrokosmo 00:00 Tools
pinging 00:00 Tools
Oyaki Pamba Te 00:00 Tools
Sputnik 00:00 Tools
Collage 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Reflex 00:00 Tools
Drive Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
Hammond Cocktail 00:00 Tools
Fatzz 00:00 Tools
Orango 00:00 Tools
Alkemio 00:00 Tools
Kosmaro 00:00 Tools
RA.478 Daniele Baldelli - 2015.07.27 00:00 Tools
Galaxia 00:00 Tools
Talorypo - Warehouse Preservation Society Remix 00:00 Tools
Kachiri - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Kata Sandi 00:00 Tools
OYAKI PANBA TE 00:00 Tools
Gandharva - DJ Tennis remix 00:00 Tools
Joka Joka 00:00 Tools
Poouli 00:00 Tools
On Bound 00:00 Tools
Megaloceros 00:00 Tools
What Da Funk (feat. Gloria Turrini) 00:00 Tools
Zircaloy 00:00 Tools
Volupia - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Atlantide 00:00 Tools
Ananke 00:00 Tools
BIS #741 Part 1 with Daniele Baldelli 00:00 Tools
A Good Day (feat. Sam Wood) 00:00 Tools
Ring With Three Concentric Discs/Craig Leon 00:00 Tools
Phobos 00:00 Tools
Vhanessa 00:00 Tools
BIS #741 Part 2 with Daniele Baldelli 00:00 Tools
Pongo - Extra Balearic Version 00:00 Tools
Quagga 00:00 Tools
Esaendro 00:00 Tools
Complotto Geometrico (Andrew Weatherall Remix) 00:00 Tools
Break Loose (feat. Sam Wood) 00:00 Tools
Pink Ghost - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Infinity Machine 00:00 Tools
RA.478 Daniele Baldelli - 2015.07.27 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Parsley/Danielle Baldelli 00:00 Tools
Oryx Dammah 00:00 Tools
Dodo 00:00 Tools
While You Wait/New Musik 00:00 Tools
Drive Me Crazy (feat. Jj Vianello) 00:00 Tools
Suruas - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Touch/Secession 00:00 Tools
My Blues Is You/Neon 00:00 Tools
Axxess/Axxess 00:00 Tools
Pagaia/Tony Esposito 00:00 Tools
African Rapness/Chris Hinze 00:00 Tools
The Right Man/Units 00:00 Tools
The Moon 00:00 Tools
Murder Rap Trap/Culture Club, Captain Crucial 00:00 Tools
Chinese Revenge/Koto 00:00 Tools
State of the Nation/Fad Gadget 00:00 Tools
Afro-Cosmic 00:00 Tools
Vhanessa - Tiger & Woods remix 00:00 Tools
Maccaroni Radio/M.M. Greco, Eddy Trauba 00:00 Tools
Thylacine 00:00 Tools
Dioxide 00:00 Tools
Naturliche Liebe/Triatma & Gyan Nishabda 00:00 Tools
Jamaica Running/Pool 00:00 Tools
Lipote 00:00 Tools
Vogue 00:00 Tools
This Man/Phill & The Friends 00:00 Tools
Celebration 00:00 Tools
Krebs Cycle 00:00 Tools
Endless Race/Wally Badarou 00:00 Tools
Ouadou/Carte de Sojour 00:00 Tools
Urania ( 120 bpm ) 00:00 Tools
Tangram 00:00 Tools
BeatsInSpace-08.05.14 Part1 with Daniele Baldelli 00:00 Tools
Lescudjack/Michael Chapman 00:00 Tools
Volupia - Kasper Bjorke Mix 00:00 Tools
Suruas 00:00 Tools
Poouli - Private Agenda Sunrise Remix 00:00 Tools
Just the Time of a Trip 00:00 Tools
XR 7/XR 7 00:00 Tools
Archetipo 00:00 Tools
Isotropo Funk - Clap! Clap! Remix 00:00 Tools
cosmic voice 00:00 Tools
Kachiri - Tronik Youth Remix 00:00 Tools
Kachiri - Ivan Smagghe Crossed Edit 00:00 Tools
Taxon 00:00 Tools
Start Me 00:00 Tools
Hero 00:00 Tools
Mixed Live by Daniele Baldelli 00:00 Tools
Quagga - Aimes' Day Into Night Remix 00:00 Tools
Diffrazione - Eric Duncan remix 00:00 Tools
Desmodromico (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Pink Ghost - Jamie Paton Mix 00:00 Tools
Tangram - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
BeatsInSpace-08.05.14 Part2 with Daniele Baldelli 00:00 Tools
Pink Ghost - Two Mamarrachos Mix 00:00 Tools
Funkynoizer - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
KEVLAR 00:00 Tools
Montego Bay 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Reishi 00:00 Tools
The Rain Dance 00:00 Tools
Wanna Play 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Drag (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Funkynoizer - Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco Mix 00:00 Tools
If You Drive 00:00 Tools
Funky Tambourine 00:00 Tools
Diffrazione 00:00 Tools
Kosmaro - DJ Ralf remix 00:00 Tools
Safari House (fratty Mix) - remix 00:00 Tools
Air Vibes 00:00 Tools
Peter Funk 00:00 Tools
Buteo Buteo - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Mooneyes (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Daniele Baldelli Pres. Cosmic Sound (Mixed Live By Danielle Baldelli) 00:00 Tools
Wava Kossa 00:00 Tools
Afelio - In Flagranti remix 00:00 Tools
Gandharva (DJ Tennis remix) 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Mood 00:00 Tools
Double Yellow Line 00:00 Tools
On A War Footing 00:00 Tools
Kachiri - Craig Bratley Mix 00:00 Tools
Remember Cosmic 00:00 Tools
Remember Baia Degli Angeli 2005 cd 1 00:00 Tools
Closer to the Source 00:00 Tools
Diffrazione (Eric Duncan remix) 00:00 Tools
Pink Ghost - Jamie Paton Bassic Mix 00:00 Tools
Jamaica Running 00:00 Tools
Funk Me Again (Eric "Dunks" Duncan Mix) 00:00 Tools
33vs45 00:00 Tools
Urania - 120 Bpm 00:00 Tools
Funkynoizer - Selvagem Farofa Mix 00:00 Tools
Afelio (In Flagranti remix) 00:00 Tools
Afelio 00:00 Tools
Encebra - Faint Waves Remix 00:00 Tools
Brass Box 00:00 Tools
Xilodelphia 00:00 Tools
Eagle Quill 00:00 Tools
Sakso Rava 00:00 Tools
Compotto Geometrico - Andy wetherall mix 00:00 Tools
Fonatinebleau 00:00 Tools
Inner Light 00:00 Tools
Daniele Baldelli 180 min Boiler Room Mix 00:00 Tools
Poouli - Gigi Masin Remix 00:00 Tools
Vhanessa (Tiger & Woods remix) 00:00 Tools
Space Scribble - Prins Thomas Remix 00:00 Tools
Traccia Audio 09 00:00 Tools
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Track No12 00:00 Tools
Pages 00:00 Tools
State Of The Nation 00:00 Tools
Cosmic serenade 00:00 Tools
Out Of Reserve 00:00 Tools
Remember Baia Degli Angeli 2005 cd 2 00:00 Tools
Poouli - Sare Havlicek Remix 00:00 Tools
Mixtape C41 1981 A 00:00 Tools
Zanzibar_Mix 00:00 Tools
Funk Me Again (Eric Dunks Duncan Mix) 00:00 Tools
Encebra 00:00 Tools
Traccia Audio 01 00:00 Tools
Traccia Audio 02 00:00 Tools
Quagga - Aimes' Night Into Day Remix 00:00 Tools
Lowride (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Tangram (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Joka Joka - Club Paradiso remix 00:00 Tools
Kosmaro (DJ Ralf remix) 00:00 Tools
The Right Man 00:00 Tools
Inner Light (Alkalino remix) 00:00 Tools
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Touch 00:00 Tools
Pink Ghost - Man Powers 'One More Week Mix' 00:00 Tools
African Rapness 00:00 Tools
In Flagranti (Afelio Remix) (Francesca Lombardo's 'Old School Italian DJs' Mix) 00:00 Tools
While You Want 00:00 Tools
Volupia (Kasper Bjorke Mix) 00:00 Tools
Remember baia 2006 00:00 Tools
Melody Mecca 1985 00:00 Tools
Safari House (fratty Mix) (remix) 00:00 Tools
Tribute To Cosmic 00:00 Tools
Complotto Geometrico 00:00 Tools
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Baia degli angeli 1977-1978 00:00 Tools
Traccia Audio 04 00:00 Tools
Mixtape C20 1980 A 00:00 Tools
Traccia Audio 07 00:00 Tools
Pagaia 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Efficacy - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
#27 Side A 00:00 Tools
Taxon - Marco Diongi remix 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Sound 00:00 Tools
Murder Rap Trap 00:00 Tools
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Track No11 00:00 Tools
Suruas (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Cosmic_ c6 00:00 Tools
Joka Joka (Club Paradiso remix) 00:00 Tools
Mellow Game (Greg Wilson & Derek Kaye remix) 00:00 Tools
Electro Dub 00:00 Tools
Montego Bay - Drums Solo 00:00 Tools
Track No06 00:00 Tools
Real Like the Music 00:00 Tools
Zanzibar Cosmic Privee (BOM) 00:00 Tools
Inner Light - Alkalino remix 00:00 Tools
Remember Baia 2005 00:00 Tools
Endless Race 00:00 Tools
Volupia (Kasper Bjørke Mix) 00:00 Tools
Track 1 00:00 Tools
Ring with Three Concentric Circles 00:00 Tools
Rhythm Makers / Zone (range) 00:00 Tools
My Blues is You (Slow Dub) 00:00 Tools
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Legendary Italian dj known for playing slow, chuggy, cosmic disco sets. From the public dance hall to the disco, from the smooch to the shake, from the orchestra to the deejay. Daniele Baldelli, one of the first Italian deejays, talks about and reveals the secrets of an era. Before the 1970s, the disco didn't exist. In the dance hall, live music reigned. Afterwards, people started to dance to records as an alternative or as a musical break for the orchestras. Here, we saw the birth of the first dee-jays. They had simply to put on one record after another. It will only be later on when they are able to superimpose one or more pieces, mixing songs … expressing their own ability. They will become artists skilful at playing with records, reaching a very high standard, divulging all their musical expertise and knowledge. Investing in musical research and techniques. Let's venture together, on this fascinating journey of discovery in a profession that has made history…… 1969 saw the professional birth of Daniele Baldelli. It all started, almost by chance, when he was a youngster. He was discovered by a talent scout who was the owner of the TANA CLUB DISCOTEQUE (and had been in France, where he had seen some music bars called: discotheques). So he was interviewed by the disco owner who offered him the job of “putting on the records” as the word Disc-Jockey, at least in Italy, hadn’t been coined yet). Neither mixer or pre-listening device existed, his task was limited to programming records one after the other that had already been chosen by the disco owner. You began by lowering the volume of one of the 45 rpm record turntables and at the same time that you were listening to it, you began to turn up the volume of the other turntable where the other 45 record was ready. Naturally mixing didn't exist, because it wasn’t a big deal if a gap or mute space between the two songs was heard. It was the dawning of the Dee-Jay, a job still to be invented. Daniele Baldelli, then, didn't have a model he could refer to and he had no mixing equipment (that would arrive later on), he started to experiment and invent methods that allowed his music to have a certain flow. Briefly, he disliked the pause between one record and another. Since he had no headphones or pre listening devices, he tried to listen to the noise that the needle made when the first track was about to begin, in order to understand the exact moment when he had to turn up the volume, and blast in the groove. Eventually he would mark the different variations of speed on the “LENCO” turntable to have a point of reference, or he would even attach adhesive labels to the records to show the exact point, where the music would start (a practice later copied by the scratching dee-jays, virtuosos of the vinyl records, and of D.M.C. competitions). In 1970 he moved to the TABU CLUB in Cattolica. The music he played in those days could perhaps be divided into two large categories: white music, mainly from Europe and black music mainly from America. We are, of course talking about the 45 rpm (or the 7 inches) that back in the days would cost 600 Lire. The album which cost 3.300 Lire, was almost always a useless expense, because the only dance piece it contained, was also released on 45’s. So in that year, there was a mixture of European records, which where almost always cheerful commercial songs, alongside American soul records, rhythm and blues and funk by artists such as Arthur Conley, Joe Tex, Wilson Picket, James Brown, Rufus Thomas, Lyn Collins, etc. Naturally getting hold of this material was not always easy. Usually the Dee-Jay was limited to the services of the only musical shop present in their town. Daniele Baldelli, however, used to catch the train and go to Lugano (there was a shop called Radio Columbia), and sometimes he would even go to Paris where he was always able to find imported records. Another trend of the evenings in the 70s discotheque was that the fast music was danced like the “shake”, alternating with slow dances. The proportion was 5 shakes and 5 slow dances, then over the years 30 minutes of shake and three slow dances. In 1974-75 BAIA DEGLI ANGELI opened, a club which certainly marked the historical beginning of discos in Italy. Situated on a hill in GABICCE MARE (PS) facing the sea, it was designed on various communicating floor levels. A completely white structure with a panoramic view, having many innovations such as a dee-jay console (which was a lift made of glass, that allowed the dee-jay to move from the first floor to a second-floor while maintaining an overall view of the various internal and external dance floors), it had a mechanical arm with a cage, similar to the type used when repairing high tension wires, full of lighting effects that could even be moved onto the various dance floors. There was also an internal swimming pool (with dance floor) and an external one too, an avant-garde graphic and opening hours that were never seen before : people could dance until 5 or 6 in the morning. The disco was illuminated as it was daytime and no slow dances, only beautiful American music that had never been heard before (six months ahead of the other dee-jays on the Adriatic Riviera). Two American Deejays were responsible for the music choice at first: TOM SISON and BOB DAY. After a while, everyone started to have mixers – headphones – pre-listening devices and monitors, but they probably didn't know how to use them properly. Daniele Baldelli was certainly lucky to be near the Baia Degli Angeli, and it certainly contributed in a positive way to his technical evolution as a deejay. He learned for the first time, by watching the two American dee-jays, how to execute the perfect mix. In order to mix two records, the 12 inch record (that appeared on the scene as a big single track record which was more practical and suitable) was put on top of a 45 record in its paper cover, instead of laying it on the rubber cover of the turntable: in this way the speed of the playing 12 inch record could be corrected with the simple pressure of a finger without affecting the turntable speed. The deejay was finally able to slow down or accelerate the beat by hand, overlapping the same rhythms between two different songs. It was a great surprise for Daniele Baldelli to receive Bob Day and Tom Sison congratulations one afternoon when they were casually listening to his music in the Tabu Club. They were so impressed that they recommended him to the owner of the Baia as a replacement at the end of their contract - and they even left him as a really appreciated gift, a dedicated autographed copy of LOLEATTA HOLLOWAY’s record “Hit and run”. In those days Claudio Rispoli (artistically known as Mozart) was also contacted, so the two set off together on their great adventure: BAIA DEGLI ANGELI 1977/88. COSMIC opened in 1979 in Lazise on Lake Garda. The intention of the Cosmic founder, was to create something alternative. The logo of this new disco was composed by the word COSMIC that would advance at high speed towards the viewer, crashing a glass that symbolically had terrestrial landscapes painted on it (image clearly inspired by one of the Commodores covers). The dee-jay Daniele Baldelli who was been listened and appreciated in 1977-1978 at “Baia degli Angeli” in Gabicce Mare (PS), was their final choice. Everything started with the idea that the music had to be the main element of the project. Furthermore, the discotheque that was made for 1,200 people and had a dance floor for 700, also had a lighting and sound system that was certainly something never seen before. The interest created on the first inauguration evening, gathered a number of people so high that the inauguration party had to be repeated for the next four evenings: each night was a sold out. Very soon the fame of “COSMIC” spread over and within a few months reached the provinces of Verona, Brescia and Mantua. The disco within a year, became the meeting point for all “trends” and remained so from 1979 to 1984. In the discoteque parking lot it was possible to see cars coming from Palermo, Udine, Naples, Turin, Innsbruck, Florence etc.. All of the trend setters of the Peninsula booked a Saturday evening at “COSMIC”, anxious to participate and listen to that musical phenomenon labelled “AFRO”. Naturally, even if it is still used today, this term was inappropriate, unless one considers Afro as the only root which influenced the various musical styles of Daniele Baldelli. In fact, even if various periods in the history of “Cosmic” can be distinguished (that of Funky - Disco in the first year to that of Electronic in 1980-82, followed by moments more influenced by Reggae, Fusion, Jazz and Brazil), Daniele Baldelli’s Afro style was expressed when he played Ravel’s Bolero overlapping it with a track by Africa Djola, or an experimental piece by Steve Reich on which he would mix a Malinke chant from New Guinea. Mixing the T-Connection with Moebious and Rodelius, discovering in the album Izitso the only hypnotic-tribal track by Cat Stevens, extracting Africa from Depeche Mode by playing them at 33 rpm or vice-versa by creating music using a Reggae voice played at 45 rpm. Mixing 20 or so African tracks on the same electronic drum pattern or by playing them together in batucada with Kraftwerk, using the same electronic effects of a synthesiser to overlap pieces by Miram Makeba, Jorge Ben or Fela Kuti and also by uniting the Indian melodies of Hofra Haza or Sheila Chandra with the German electronic sounds of SKY RECORD. Even if largely emulated or taken as a reference point, the Daniele Baldelli of that period was only: fruit of his fantasy, musical passion and his technical research, which allowed him to be creative and experiment with various styles without following set patterns or models. Without doubt, one can say that Daniele Baldelli was the precursor, to what is known as today, as the dee-jay. Starting in 1969 when neither mixer nor headphones for pre-listening existed, up to the invention and use of electronic drums, synthetizers and the first sampling systems in discos, which only had four seconds of memory. In 1980, Daniele Baldelli invents the “Dee Jay concert”. Consisting of four turntables, two mixers and electronic drums or live percussion, 80 to 100 tracks were mixed in not much more than half an hour: a supermegamix was born, everything being carried out live. Another novelty of “Cosmic” was the equalizer, which was used as a musical instrument, intervening rhythmically on the keys and cursors, where various frequencies could be manipulated, creating accentuation on the “Cymbal” or on a voice or base. The mix was another characteristic or almost an obsession of Daniele Baldelli, who literally spent his time by listening to his records (today almost 60.000) in order to find the ideal moment where two pieces could overlap and create a third one. The “Cosmic” closed its doors in 1984. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.