why all the 1 star reviews? this record is still in preorder status and has not shipped. how can you review a record you haven't heard yet?EDIT: uh oh... looks like those 1 star reviewers knew something I didn't. I can offer a side-by-side comparison of the original Italian 12" and the US reissue by AMD. the vinyls are real. the mastering errors are real. the rulings are final.1) the L / R stereo channels are the wrong way around. original = hi-hats in the right channel. reissue = hi-hats in the left channel, and so on.2) the HF information has been heavily gutted above 8kHz. screenshots:https://i.imgur.com/YrpVsy0.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/P8Bf7Ow.png3) reduced track separation and clarity in the mix. the vocals, percussion and synths sound like they have been muddied together in a soup of sludge. everything sounds blurred, indistinct and out-of-focus, symptomatic of a vinyl rip performed on sub-standard equipment and / or poorly calibrated equipment.4) there are several "audio gaps" which sound like badly repaired clicks / pops. listen out for them on the A-side @ 02:02, 03:23, 05:545) sssssibilance, especially during the 3rd vocoder refrain of the 2nd chorus (the part when he sings GRAAAAAAACE)needless to say, the AMD reissue is not a faithful reproduction of the original sound. the AMD reissue is sourced from a poor quality vinyl transfer, not the master tapes.so... who should you aim your pitchfork at?Synthphony Music House did the best job they could with the material they were provided. it's not their fault.Around My Dream presented the record beautifully at a fair price... like putting lipstick on a pig. AMD are responsible for accepting such ropey source material and profiting from it. audio fidelity should be of utmost importance to any reissue label. why? because you will get a bad reputation for banging out inferior reissues. you will lose customers. it is so sad that bootleggers like Disco Magic Melody have higher standards than official reissue labels!I guess the real villains are ZYX. they own the license to this music. "licensed from ZYX" = vinyl rip done by someone who doesn't know (and / or care) what he's doing. the reissue label (often run by legit, knowledgeable people, who otherwise do a good job) ask the license-holders for source material. ZYX give them whatever copy they have stuck to the bottom of their shoe. maybe the master tapes are lost... I don't know. maybe ZYX forbid reissue labels from using alternative source material... I don't know. why not allow the mastering engineer to create a fresh, high-quality vinyl rip from a NM copy? the A-side of the 2018 Ralph River Band reissue is also sourced from a horrible vinyl rip. Hysteric and Flemming Dalum used far superior sources for their edits, ripped properly on their own equipment, using their own personal copies... at least that's how it sounds to me.

More excellent reissues from my favorite Italo disco record labels... Around My Dream!! This was originally released back in 1986. Now back with the same beautiful picture sleeve, but pressed on lovely Grey colored vinyl! The original 12" sold once at over 400.00 USA Dollars. Its a fantastic record & true Italo disco classic!!

This fantastic Italo disco masterpiece is being released on the amazing Around My Dream records (USA) coming out in July 2018! With both original tracks as the original 12" has and on colored vinyl too! YEAH!!

//THIS IS THE SHIT!!It's sooo hard to find great heavy weight dark Italo-Disco records which sound a lot like Wave! Lucky me I found it by clicking through some favourite lists from users here! From 0 to 2 after "Gitano" in my top ten now!! So if you have a near mint copy for sale let me know! I will pay good money!

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Great release and the first by Three Of You. The instrumentals in this are bizarre and endearingly dark in an almost hypnotic way. Riccardo Gioli (aka Venonville) offers up some effectively disturbed vocals, especially before the chorus and Steve Martin (a DJ, not the actor), who himself has a few Italo-Disco singles (my favourite being Roxide which coincidentally also involves Mangoni and Gioli from T.O.Y.) features on some strained (in a good way) backing vocals. And how can you not love that intro synth and the pitched down voice over. The side B is great too. It is equally hypnotic, but with a key difference being in the drum sequencing. It could almost be the theme of some obscure 80s horror film. Also contained is some great use of classic synth bells, a prominent feature of many mid-late 80s tracks. A black and white cover featuring the upside down reflection of a tree in some mud also adds to the overall feeling the record produces. This is in my opinion very, very, very easily the best record on the Academy label and a near classic example of the pairing of Italo-Disco and Darkwave.