Fellow Italian vinyl obsessive Andrea Dallera runs the independent vinyl-only label Dualismo Sound. His imprint is devoted to the Italo sound and spans a period that goes from 1976 to 1988, reissuing forgotten gems that are still valuable today. “Dualism” is the common denominator in Andrea’s sets, spacing from Euro private oddities to Italo Disco and bringing that deviant heaviness to the strains of funk and disco. I first got into music through Hip-Hop, when I was 13-14 years old. As I got older, I started digging for the samples used in my favorite joints and got into Italian Soundtracks, Library Music and Funk. One day, I discovered my grandparents’ record collection in their basement… I found quite common stuff, no holy grails or strange records, but that still made my first approach to vinyls mind-blowing. I’ve been buying records quite obsessively ever since. I than realized that I enjoyed this music much more than just chopped and looped samples… I was fascinated by the Italian world of the late ‘70s and the ‘80s, eras that were often misunderstood and devaluated especially by Italians themselves. Raw bass-lines, quirky aesthetics, reverberated drums, grotesque flicks and legendary individuals that were involved in all those kinds of things. Stepping into Disco and Italo was the next thing to do. When I was 19, I moved to Sao Paulo and worked there for a year. When I returned to Italy, thrilled about how megalopolises could encourage people, I started working on the basis of Dualismo Sound, with the purpose of reissuing and paying homage to an incredibly rich underworld. I was inspired by the many British reissue labels, and I always liked that archeological approach to music because it allows to contextualize a particular historical era, either yours or of any other country. I saw that some aspects of Italian’s music heritage were left unexplored, so I decided to “step in the arena”. Starting to mix my record collection was something that came together with the label. I certainly got hooked with the “turntable attitude” of old school Hip Hop Djs, just by being in extremely close contact with my records and trying to discover the potential of every single fragment of those joints. Italian radio Djs of the ‘80s were a good influence too and, of course, the Afro/Cosmic selectors that ruled the Italian dance scene.