Crazy Gang – Every Sunday

Formed by Carlo and Franco Bixio in the early 1980s, Crazy Gang was a tongue-in-cheek Italo-disco project whose rotating cast of members and guest musicians included the great (and prolific) Claudio Simonetti. This must-check EP offers up a quartet of cuts from the outfit’s now hard-to-find 1983 debut album. There’s plenty of rushing, wonderfully camp, arpeggio-driven Italo-disco on show – see the sparkling «Computerize», Bobby Orlando-esque «Every Sunday» (whose talkbox-tinged vocals are particularly memorable) and guitar solo-laden opener «Every Sunday» – though arguably the most potent cut of all expertly fuses electro and P-funk. Tucked away at the end of the EP, «A Discomatic Rodeo» is the kind of madcap, riff-laden ’80s workout that would later inspire Daft Punk to create some of their most memorable cuts.