Bottin (Guglielmo Bottin, born 1977) is an Italian composer, producer, DJ and music scholar, based in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

, Italy. His tracks have a clear italo disco and retro-futurist electronic music influences. Before moving to contemporary space disco, he was signed to

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via MySpace in 2008. Bottin was also part of the early synthwave scene playing at

Valerie Collective The Valerie Collective was founded as a musical cooperation in Nantes, France, in 2007 by David Grellier and his friends and colleagues. Various acts in Valerie include The Outrunners, Minitel Rose, Anoraak, Maethelvin, all from Nantes as well as ...

parties and producing remixes for Jupiter. In 2009 he released Horror Disco, a concept album that fused nu disco, cosmic disco and Italian giallo movies soundtracks. In 2014, he collaborated with Steve Strange and

Visage Visage may refer to: *A synonym of face *Visage Mobile, an American software as a service company *Visage, Georgia, a community in the United States * ''Visage'' (film), also known as ''Face'', a 2009 French film * ''Visage'' (video game), a surv ...

on the song Poison Within. Bottin recently contributed to the soundtrack of

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Selected discography

*''Eye-BM'' LP (2022, Slow Motion, DE) *''Quality Time'' LP (2021, Lacerba, IT) *''Love Life/Delta Tigre'' (2021, Artifact, NL) *''Respiraré / Waterland'' EP (2019, Artifact, NL) *''I Have What I Gave'' album (2017, 2MR, US) *''Cristalli Liquidi'' album (2017, Bordello A Parigi, NL) *''Arreboles'' EP (2017, Chit Chat, US) *''Deardrums'' album (2017, 2MR, US) *''Robottin'' EP with

Alexander Robotnick Alexander Robotnick (a.k.a. ''Maurizio Dami'') is an Italian electronic musician. He made his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding member of Avida, a dance-cabaret band featuring Daniele Trambusti and Stefano Fuochi. In 1983 he attai ...

(2015, Hot Elephant Music) *''Punica Fides'' album (2014, Bear Funk, UK) *''Sage comme un Image'' single (2012, ZR Records, UK) *''Discocracy / August'' EP (2010, Eskimo Recordings, BE) *''Discoursive Diversions'' collected remixes (2010, Nang, UK) *''Horror Disco'' album (2009, Bear Funk, UK) *''No Static'' single (2009,

, US) *''Fondamente Nove'' single (2008, Eskimo Recordings, BE) *''I Love Me Vol. I'' (2004, Irma/Sony, IT) *''Chill Reception'' album as Bluecat (2002, Irma/Sony, IT) *''Good Morning Sunshine'' single as Bluecat (1999, Irma/Sony, IT)

Selected remixes

* Museum Of Love: In Infancy (DFA, US) *

: Never Enough (Blitz Club, UK) *

Time & Space Machine Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to co ...

: Set Phasers To Stun (Tirk, UK) *

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: Bambola (Vendetta Records, ES) *

Solarstone Richard Mowatt, commonly known by his stage name Solarstone (formerly spelled Solar Stone), is an Irish trance DJ and producer based in Wales. The music project Solarstone was founded as a trio, and also used the pseudonyms Young Parisians, Liq ...

: Electric Love (Solaris, UK) * Lindstrøm: Paaskelyd (Bear Funk, UK) *

Sally Shapiro Sally Shapiro is the pseudonym of a Swedish vocalist and the name of the Italo disco/synthpop duo composed of Shapiro and musician Johan Agebjörn. On 28 April 2016, Sally Shapiro announced the end of their 10-year career alongside the release ...

: My Fantasy (Permanent Vacation, DE) *

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: Ex Ex Ex" (Codek, USA) * Ali Love: Smoke And Mirrors (Back Yard, UK) *

Pollyn Pollyn is an electronic music group from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. The band consists of Adam Weissman (production, samples, percussion, synth), Genevieve Artadi (lead vocals, bass, keyboard), and Anthony Cava (guitar). Pollyn's debu ...

: I Can't Get into It (unsigned USA) *

Lost Valentinos Lost Valentinos are a band from Sydney, Australia. They released two EPs under the band name The Valentinos but changed their name in mid-2007 to Lost Valentinos due to the threat of legal action by soul artists from the 1950s, Bobby Womack ...

: Nightmoves (EtcEtc, AUS) * Space: Carry On Turn Me On (Nang, UK) * Space: Tango in Space (Nang, UK) * Oscar G. & Stryke: Hypnotized (Hooj Choones, UK) * Solange: Robots Are Dub-American (

, USA) * Tosca: Elektra Bregenz (G-Stone, Austria) *Jupiter: Starlighter (Endless Summer Recordings, France) * The Emergency: Fantasy (Metal Postcard, USA)

Installations

* House of Gonzaga: La Celeste Galeria (Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2002) *

Tazio Nuvolari Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (; 16 November 1892 – 11 August 1953) was an Italian racing driver. He first raced motorcycles and then concentrated on sports cars and single-seaters. A resident of Mantua, he was known as 'Il Mantovano Volante' (Th ...

: Tra la Terra e il Cielo (Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2003) *From Chaos to Order and Back: an exhibition by

Fabrica Fabrica means a device in Latin, and derivative words mean "factory" in French (''fabrique''), Italian (''fabbrica''), Portuguese (''fábrica''), Romanian (''fabrica'') and Spanish (''fábrica'') among other Romance languages. It may also refer to ...

(GGG, Osaka) * Venice Biennale 2005, Spanish Pavilion by

Antoni Muntadas Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) is a postconceptual multimedia artist, who resides in New York since 1971. His work often addresses social, political and communications issues through different media: such as photography, video, text and image ...

* Speak Truth To Power – Italian adaptation (2004, 2006) *Sciame 1, with Francesco Meneghini – Daydream Fields Replay Foundation, 2008) finalist at Share Prize 2009, Turin

References

External links

Official websiteBottin on DiscogsAcademic research in musicologyPitchfork reviewBottin and Simonetti obsess over italo disco
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bottin 1977 births Living people Italian DJs Musicians from Venice Electronic dance music DJs