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He says some interesting things about Gigi and Picotto in this interview :-) I cannot properly translate it all, just a few things which he talks about: - after forcing this question for quite a while, he states that Gigi's musical skills must have been better than Picotto's - he says when comparing their skills its enough to just go out to each of their live performances, and see the reaction of the crowd, that speaks for itself - on the other hand he thinks Gigi's morality level is lower than feet level (lol a bit hard statement!) [he told that we ALWAYS have to separate the ARTIST from the PEOPLE itself, then told this hard statement] - but it can be understood because he feels very well betrayed by Gigi (he uses this exact word), he feels left over, now that Gigi is about to release a new compilation with a new publisher, a "competitor" of Media Records, doing this after they've been previously working on it together for more than a year - he also mentions an idea of a "book" about being in the dance music scene for more than 30 years (it would be about Gigi? or about himself? couldn't understand....) - he told that the urban legend is true, "Bla Bla Bla" is entirely, he says "lets say 95%" done by Gigi only himself and noone else, it was already complete when he (Gigi) did show it to Bortolotti, only some really small arrangements were needed to let it be released (in another recent interview by Paolo Sandrini they were also talking about the same fact) - he also told that "Psico Dance" (he doesn't says its name, only referring it as "his new compilation") is going to have some new songs which could be heard on Gigi lives - and it is also going to contain new, "freshened" versions of some of his earlier tracks - they have returned a multiple times on Gigi vs Picotto's skills (the radio host seem to have return again and again to this question), to which Bortolotti said, Gigi was always the more independent of them, he (Bortolotti) was only his "light", a "path" and a "friend", who puts Gigi in the right mood to be able to create; while regarding Picotto, he says he was only a DJ at first in the beginnings, and Bortolotti teached him all the stuff needed to know to be a real artist, and led him on the way to be better in it Thats all I could understand (with the help of google, so feel free to correct!), a full and complete italian rescript would be pretty nice! :-) (someone here talking Italian?)

Gianfranco Bortolloti tells something about Gigi's album on 1:05, hope someone can translate what he says - I think it might be interestiing for us.

Oooooh, heute kam ganz unerwartet meine Vorbestellung an, das Cover ist echt schick und psychedelisch geworden! Scheinbar sollte man nicht allen Gerüchten im Internet vertrauen! ;) Tja, wo stelle ich die denn nun bei mir hin... ach ich leg sie einfach zu den anderen! (Spaß beiseite, ich bin weiterhin optimistisch und denke, dass die Compi in einer der nächsten (47) Wochen dieses Jahres kommen wird. )

Very interesting. And it sucks he feels betrayed by Gigi. It seems like they really had a close friendship wich each other that's now broken apart... So many great tracks they collaborated on in the 90s... *sigh* I mean we don't know what happened that lead Gigi to this decision. Maybe because MediaRec hasn't released any CD since their reboot and Gigi didn't want to have his release "digital only" ? Or because they could only release in limited Numbers ? We can only assume... I can say personally, that TIME records feels much more commercialised and "cheap" in their WEB presentation (like ZYX) than Media, wich feels much more professional. However I can see why he puts Gigi in front of Picotto. Just listening to Picotto's "post-mediarec" releases is like a single monotone song that never ends & put on repeat. Just uninspired and boring. In short he says: Gigi is a great artist but a big asshole. Very interesting about "Bla Bla Bla". There is a version that is only very slightly different (running slower, different effects) on the spanish Compilation "Los+Bailandos". Maybe thats the original one ?

Gigi Fan - Lesson Undeuxtrois: If the Live does not appear on his website, he is not coming. ;) By the way, there are quite no Lives since the end of December, except one per month circa... could this be a good sign?

to be honest this liveset was never announced by Gigi on his site nor socials. Btw i'm very disappointed because i was supposed to attend this night in Latina! :(