Patrick Miller Fest 2016 Mexico

[Crockett]

Who would think, that far away in Mexico exists such amazing community, in a country, maybe not evocative of the cultural, musical catipol? Yes ! After this show I haven't doubts, that Mexico and thousands people there are the biggest, loyal community of Italo Disco, Italo NRG and "original" Eurobeat. Since 3 days on Facebook appear next and next photos of fans with artists, which performed at Patrick Miller Fest 2016. Surprisingly professional preparation, which we can see, that all it makes you feel, as if we were there. Even surprisingly for me look at this music by Mexicans makes an next impression. Giancarlo Pasquini as Aleph, Big Brother, Robert Stone not as Dave Rodgers, Clara Moroni as Anika, Linda Ross, Vanessa not as Cherry, they all not as SEB artists from Japan, each song celebrated from a vinyl record. Perfect interpretation of their creation as the timeless producers and vocalists in italian dance music, always alive on top. What to say more... Really deep honest respect for Mexicans.

Some videos already available:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqpHymRTX8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3eCZ_ZKoDI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8pduJ0_o0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9PPPGNSvNE

[synthjunkie]

To see these artists (Giancarlo Pasquini, and Clara Moroni) perform in these videos, just 3 days ago, OUTSIDE of Japan, in a huge statium in Mexico City (Palacio De Los Desportes), made me very emotional and brought tears to my eyes
It's so wonderful to see such a huge crowd in another country appreciate this as much as I do.


Amazing, and hope they will be at the next Patrick Miller Fest in 2017, cause I'll try to go then! I would love to see Elena Ferretti sing some live tunes at this event.

WHY didn't I know about this event earlier???

My favorite part is seeing Clara perform as Vanessa and her song "Eternity":
https://youtu.be/kS9ljeo4p0g?t=552

The official pre-event megamix video for the event has some short introductions of both Clara and Giancarlo along with all the other artists and some of their songs from the event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAeF7xZt1cI


Seeing 2 of the 8 artists on the events poster being also eurobeat artists makes me so happy and proud of them!







Dave and Clara on the right
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[drnrg]

We have aways been huge of Italo. Ever since the days of 80s Hi-NRG. Even when I used to reside in U.s. for short time; there was a samll comunity dedicated to the 80s Hi-NRG/Disco; where I was a Dee jay, myself. Now adays there has seem to be a huge revival of that 80s HRG in our community. Artists like Trans - X, TAPPS, Tyrants In Therapy etc, have all been releasing new music. Some under different names and have had spotlight plays in the dance clubs in Mexico. One particular dee jay has even remixed some Eurobeat into 80s Hi NRG bpms from Vibration records. Great stuff, as you may have already heard or seen on youtube.

I'm not surprised Giancarlo Pasquini, and Clara Moroni have had equal success with their latest venues in Mexico. Hope to see a lot more of this revival in the months to come.

[para_rigby]

We have aways been huge of Italo. Ever since the days of 80s Hi-NRG. Even when I used to reside in U.s. for short time; there was a samll comunity dedicated to the 80s Hi-NRG/Disco; where I was a Dee jay, myself. Now adays there has seem to be a huge revival of that 80s HRG in our community. Artists like Trans - X, TAPPS, Tyrants In Therapy etc, have all been releasing new music. Some under different names and have had spotlight plays in the dance clubs in Mexico. One particular dee jay has even remixed some Eurobeat into 80s Hi NRG bpms from Vibration records. Great stuff, as you may have already heard or seen on youtube.

I'm not surprised Giancarlo Pasquini, and Clara Moroni have had equal success with their latest venues in Mexico. Hope to see a lot more of this revival in the months to come.

How did Italo prove to be popular in Mexico? Seems like an odd cultural mishmash.

[synthjunkie]

We have aways been huge of Italo. Ever since the days of 80s Hi-NRG. Even when I used to reside in U.s. for short time; there was a samll comunity dedicated to the 80s Hi-NRG/Disco; where I was a Dee jay, myself. Now adays there has seem to be a huge revival of that 80s HRG in our community. Artists like Trans - X, TAPPS, Tyrants In Therapy etc, have all been releasing new music. Some under different names and have had spotlight plays in the dance clubs in Mexico. One particular dee jay has even remixed some Eurobeat into 80s Hi NRG bpms from Vibration records. Great stuff, as you may have already heard or seen on youtube.

I'm not surprised Giancarlo Pasquini, and Clara Moroni have had equal success with their latest venues in Mexico. Hope to see a lot more of this revival in the months to come.

How did Italo prove to be popular in Mexico? Seems like an odd cultural mishmash.

Not sure this is the correct answer but to my understanding, many Latin American countries are very open to listening to music from European countries of latin origin such as music from Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain. Whether the lyrics are sung in English or not, there is a strong connection we feel towards those countries compared to music from other countries of non Latin origin.

For example, some countries in South America where there are eurobeat communities, there is also a strong feeling of unity with the Italians: such as Brazil (highest number of decendants of Italian origin outside of Italy), Chile (Italian and Germany decendants) and, and both Argentina and Uruguay (both having a high % ratio of Italian decendants outside of Italy, around 50% of the general population). Alot of the song charts in those countries have songs from France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, which is not something you see too often on American music charts.

Mexico is a bit different in those regards about its roots to my understanding, but what they DO have is that they have their own Hi-NRG producers since the 80's and still today as well, and also the latin musical style of Freestyle from the 80's developed in USA in Latin American communities (those of mostly Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican). Freestyle is also a type of Hi-NRG music, so there is that connection as well, which is pretty huge impact on the sound of the 80s and Hi-NRG in general and the strong following of Italo-disco by those communities.

It also seems to work the other way around as I have noticed that many Italians seem to appreciate and feel a strong connection with Latin American music much more so than those Americans of non-Latin origin who are more exposed to it in everyday situations, but are closed off to it.

So no, it's not so much a cultural mismash, but actually a much stronger connection and a more open mind set when it comes to music from abroad.

[drnrg]

We have aways been huge of Italo. Ever since the days of 80s Hi-NRG. Even when I used to reside in U.s. for short time; there was a samll comunity dedicated to the 80s Hi-NRG/Disco; where I was a Dee jay, myself. Now adays there has seem to be a huge revival of that 80s HRG in our community. Artists like Trans - X, TAPPS, Tyrants In Therapy etc, have all been releasing new music. Some under different names and have had spotlight plays in the dance clubs in Mexico. One particular dee jay has even remixed some Eurobeat into 80s Hi NRG bpms from Vibration records. Great stuff, as you may have already heard or seen on youtube.

I'm not surprised Giancarlo Pasquini, and Clara Moroni have had equal success with their latest venues in Mexico. Hope to see a lot more of this revival in the months to come.

How did Italo prove to be popular in Mexico? Seems like an odd cultural mishmash.

Don't understand the culture mishmash thinking you mention. Like I said Hi NRG was always popular in Mexico. Many Spanish acts modeled there sound after Dead Or Alive, New Order,and Trans X. Meccano; a big Hi NRG act from the 80s are Mexican. The whole Freestyle movment from Miami was also a big stregnth with the popularity of Synthesizer Dance music. Most of the big HRG acts of 80s also had Latin backround. Jeeneet and The New Dance, Toppaz, Secret Ties, That's where the tern Latin HRG Disco came from.

[synthjunkie]

We have aways been huge of Italo. Ever since the days of 80s Hi-NRG. Even when I used to reside in U.s. for short time; there was a samll comunity dedicated to the 80s Hi-NRG/Disco; where I was a Dee jay, myself. Now adays there has seem to be a huge revival of that 80s HRG in our community. Artists like Trans - X, TAPPS, Tyrants In Therapy etc, have all been releasing new music. Some under different names and have had spotlight plays in the dance clubs in Mexico. One particular dee jay has even remixed some Eurobeat into 80s Hi NRG bpms from Vibration records. Great stuff, as you may have already heard or seen on youtube.

I'm not surprised Giancarlo Pasquini, and Clara Moroni have had equal success with their latest venues in Mexico. Hope to see a lot more of this revival in the months to come.

How did Italo prove to be popular in Mexico? Seems like an odd cultural mishmash.

Don't understand the culture mishmash thinking you mention. Like I said Hi NRG was always popular in Mexico. Many Spanish acts modeled there sound after Dead Or Alive, New Order,and Trans X. Meccano; a big Hi NRG act from the 80s are Mexican. The whole Freestyle movment from Miami was also a big stregnth with the popularity of Synthesizer Dance music. Most of the big HRG acts of 80s also had Latin backround. Jeeneet and The New Dance, Toppaz, Secret Ties, That's where the tern Latin HRG Disco came from.

Yes, and Freestyle became so popular that major artists from the 80's incorporated the sound in their music.

The freestyle sound was so hot that it was being incorporated by artists such as Janet Jackson.

The sounds evolved and were incorporated in the 90's with the Back Street Boys and other early 90s groups who started to blend it with pop melodies, which became the basis of many commercial pop acts along with hip pop/pop blends all throughout the 90s and even early 2000's, until the popularity of eurodance and trance melodies started to work their influence into the American music culture, which is pretty much where we are today with mainstream EDM.

[drnrg]

How did Italo prove to be popular in Mexico? Seems like an odd cultural mishmash.

Don't understand the culture mishmash thinking you mention. Like I said Hi NRG was always popular in Mexico. Many Spanish acts modeled there sound after Dead Or Alive, New Order,and Trans X. Meccano; a big Hi NRG act from the 80s are Mexican. The whole Freestyle movment from Miami was also a big stregnth with the popularity of Synthesizer Dance music. Most of the big HRG acts of 80s also had Latin backround. Jeeneet and The New Dance, Toppaz, Secret Ties, That's where the tern Latin HRG Disco came from.

Yes, and Freestyle became so popular that major artists from the 80's incorporated the sound in their music.

The freestyle sound was so hot that it was being incorporated by artists such as Janet Jackson.

The sounds evolved and were incorporated in the 90's with the Back Street Boys and other early 90s groups who started to blend it with pop melodies, which became the basis of many commercial pop acts along with hip pop/pop blends all throughout the 90s and even early 2000's, until the popularity of eurodance and trance melodies started to work their influence into the American music culture, which is pretty much where we are today with mainstream EDM.

That EDM part of the ride,is where I decided, to step off from. Now I just listen to Old/New Eurobeat/Italo, 80s ,Rock and Indie synth pop; which has the most influence from the 80s .

[synthjunkie]

I enjoy the replay value of the original sounds which started it all. It's like even even that old, but I just don't seem to enjoy today's mainstream stuff at all since I just see it as regurgitated sounds and melodies I have already head so many times from 80's and 90's electronic scenes, and the orignals sounded soooo much better and raw, so they bore me to death thinking they are so innovative and shxt :yawn: