Pink Project - Domino (24Bit – 96KHz)

Pink Project - Domino (24Bit - 96KHz)

Biography:
Pink Project is the name of an Italo disco production created, like its contemporary Kano, by italian composer/keyboardist/producer Stefano Pulga, together with his colleagues Luciano Ninzatti (also guitarist/programmer), Matteo Bonsanto (keyboardist) and sound engineer Massimo Noe. Their biggest hit, which also provided them with their name, was a mashup – one of the very first such creations, actually, in Italy – entitled “Disco Project”. 

“Disco Project” was born out of the mixes that Pulga used to create during his club nights. In early 1982, he and Ninzatti had realized that Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall (Part II), which was a big hit in Italy in that period, and The Alan Parsons Project’s equally popular “Mammagamma” had the same tempo and, in some sections, the same key. Plus, APP’s instrumentals were often mistaken for Pink Floyd by Italian club goers and ‘dance’ fans in general.

Pulga and Ninzatti made a mix which started with APP’s “Sirius” (another popular track from their 1982 album Eye in the Sky), then went straight into “Mammagamma” (avoiding Parson’s transition to his album’s title track), over which an a cappella version of the kids’ choir from Another Brick was superimposed, with the octave bass and steady drums from “Mammagamma” running all the way through.

The vocals from Pink Floyd’s song fitted perfectly on the Parsons piece, so Pulga and Ninzatti decided to officially release the mix as “Disco Project”. However, the final recording was not a mix, in that it did not feature any actual samples from the Parsons or Floyd records; instead, everything (i.e. the whole instrumentation) was very carefully re-played by Pulga, Ninzatti and Bonsanto – in particular, Ninzatti played a nice rendition of David Gilmour’s famous guitar solo – while the choir was performed by a group of schoolkids from an international school in Rimini. [All of this was mainly done because Pink Project had no authorization at all from the any of the songwriters – indeed, they never asked for any – so the only way for them to release “Disco Project” was to actually make cover versions of the three pieces featured in it.] The choir also followed the key shift in the music of “Mammagamma”, which was not present in the original mix by Pulga & Ninzatti.

“Disco Project” was a major hit in Italy during the summer of 1982, and this implicitly obliged Pulga & Co. to put up a fictional band for TV performances. Indeed they did – the song was mimed various times on Italian TV by four people (on bass, guitar, drums and keyboards) dressed up in black monk-like robes and black pointed hoods. Although there were rumors at the time about three of the mysterious individuals being actually Pulga, Ninzatti and Bonsanto themselves (with the fourth “member” being Massimo Noe), this was never really confirmed or denied by anyone. Also, the TV performances did not feature any choir or anyone lip-synching the lyrics, although the vocals were clearly heard.

After the big hit with “Disco Project”, the three producers used the Pink Project moniker for two compilation albums, mainly made up of more mashups in the same style as “Disco Project”, borrowing from Jean Michel Jarre, The Police, Falco, Vangelis and Deep Purple (among others) while continuing their APP association. Two further singles, ‘B-Project’ [Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean + Greg Kihn Band’s Jeopardy] and “Hyper-Gamma-Oxygene” [combining APP’s “Hyper-Gamma-Spaces” and Jarre’s Oxygene Part II], respectively taken from Pink Project’s first and second albums “Domino” and “Split”, were minor hits in 1983, like their follow-up (a Pulga/Ninzatti Jarre-styled original, entitled “Magic Flight”). Despite a substantial amount of radio promotion none of Pink Project’s albums were hits, and Pulga’s creation rapidly died out.

The albums and the singles, released by the Italian pop/dance label Baby Records, have gone out of print since then, but “Disco Project” and “Hyper – Gamma – Oxygene” can still be found as mp3s on the various Peer-to-peer networks.

EC1075	Pink Project - Domino (24Bit – 96KHz)
Label:	Baby Records
Catalog#:	BR 74200
Format:	CD
Country:	Italy
Released:	1982 / 2009 Digitaly remastered from vinil by Bazar
Label Code:	LC 4554
Style:	ItaloDisco

============================================================================
Pink Project - Domino (24Bit - 96KHz)
============================================================================
01. Der Da Da Da (Medley: Da Da Da I Don’t Love You, You Don’t Love Me Aha Aha Aha Der Kommissar (Rap’ That) Meeting)
02. Disco Project (Medley: Mammagamma/Sirius Another Brick In The Wall Part 3)
03. Hiper Gamma Oxygene (Medley: Hyper Gamma Spaces Oxygene Part 4)
04. Voices Of Independence (Medley: State Of Independence Voices Inside My Head)
05. Smoke Like A Man (Medley: Smoke On The Water Love Like A Man)
06. Amama
07. Magic Flight (Medley: Connecting Flight Magic Fly)
Total Time: 00:41:24

Companies etc ▼
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Baby Records
Copyright © – Baby Records
Distributed By – CGD Messaggerie Musicali S.p.A.

Credits ▼
Bass – Pier Michelatti
Drums – Bruno Bergonzi, Ellade Bandini
Guitar – Luciano Ninzatti
Keyboards – Stefano Pulga
Percussion – Bruno Bergonzi, Maurizio Preti
Producer – R. Fraschini, Salvatore Annunziata
Saxophone – Claudio Pascoli
Vocals – Alessandra Cavedon, Lella Esposito, Linda Wesley, Luciano Ninzatti, Massimo Noé, Naimy Hackett, Rossana Casale, Silvio Pozzoli, Stefano Pulga
Arranged By, Mixed By – L. Ninzatti, S. Pulga
Mixed By – Noe
Producer – R. Fraschini, S. Annunziata
Written-By – A. Parson, E. Woolfson, R. Waters

Notes▼
℗ & © 1982 – Baby Records
℗ 2009 Digitaly remastered from vinil by Bazar
© 2009 BazarTeaM
Artwork: inheld
Technical assistance by cpio

Barcode and Other Identifiers ▼
Other (Rights Society): S.I.A.E.
Label Code: LC 4554
============================================================================

Pink Project – Der Da Da Da (Medley) (1982) (HD 1080p)