Alive with Love/Without your Love Cut Glass

WITHOUT YOUR LOVERefreshed link by request

1979's DJ of the Year
TINA FABRIQUE ALIVE WITH LOVE
This double A side is one of the earliest examples of a genre of disco that became huge in the 80's particularly in gay clubs, HI NRG.  This genre was especially big at the San Francisco mega disco The Trocadero Transfer whose resident DJ Bobby Viteritti was 1979's Billboard magazine DJ of the Year.  In fact he even did a take on it and I've included it in the zip below.

The duo also previously recorded under the names Hott City and Graffiti and were composed of Mildred Vaney and Ortheia Barnes.

The follow-up was the sublime Rising Cost of Love though it's much less well known then Without Your Love.  I still have the original double A side 12" on Ear Hole Records in my discogs store.

I was also able to come up with some rare remixes for my zip including the Razormaid and the Hot Tracks remixes.  Then there is even a take by the guys at Almighty which was released in 2003.  They tend to do an updated Hi NRG sound which has a big gay club appeal.

Apparently the Hot Classics Version from 1985 features uncredited synthesizer work by the master Patrick Cowley.  

Synthesizer King Patrick Cowley

TAKE A CHANCE MR. FLAGIO ITALO DISCO BRILLIANCE

original version
Take a Chance is one of those rare italo disco records in that it's actually a cover.  The original was an album cut by Material from their l.p. One Down featuring Nona Hendryx of Labelle.  The remake is very different and in my estimation much improved.
Flagio stands for Flavio Giorgio, Flavio Vidulich, Giorgio Bacco and one of the most brilliant italo disco gems of 1983, TAKE A CHANCE.  I have such a passion for vocoder.  Take a Chance wrote the book on how to use it correctly.  The bassline is hot enough to make Nile Rodgers proud.  A FLAGIO ZIP

It was used on Amanda Lear's RAI Italia t.v. show Cocktail D'amour from the early 2000's.  It was actually on the credits like a theme song.