Bluestar

Its exactly what he said: he cannot MASTER the tracks by himself alone, you can really say that given by his previous releases. :-) Thats where Luca (also) kicks in to the picture. Gigi is a musical genius for sure, but nobody is capable to do everything on his own - but as we know Gigi, he is probably not the one who is going to admit it. Also he may not find the final product good enough, remember that he must be in a very hard situation: - the new disc has to be a REALLY good one for the old fans as well (last non-mixed release came about 10 years ago) - … but as Gigi definitely wants to be on the top once again (and as an artist you need to redeclare yourself from time to time), the sound also needs to be pretty much different to what he did before at all --> here comes the now-popular PSY style (when Gigi kicked in back in time, the eurodance/(italo)dance/club was hugely popular, now it isn't at all, so this PSY style - which by the way, resembles a lot of things to lento - comes very handy) - also, he don't just want to "release something" (as he does with his not-that-new lento stuff, to drop some candy for the fans in the meantime), but to release something for the future, sounds which (at least some of 'em) are/could gonna be "hits", or at least a compilation which doesn't get forgotten so fast :-) - mastering is a pretty hard thing, and Gigi definitely doesn't like that part of the music production at all (listen to "No words" on youtube, thats Gigi on his own). When you play a track live on a booming sound system, nobody is going to analyze the sounds with eager ears (also you can't even do that in a disco even if you want to), but instead just enjoy the party. Now when you release something you have to make sure everything sounds totally and 10000% percent fine on most of the audio systems/headphones etc, just as you imagined, with having the most potential, big boomy bass where it needs to be boomy bass, and also crispy highs at the same time. Thats a really, really hard thing to do! (btw: listen to the "Dynoro & Gigi - In My Mind" track on Spotify, and then quickly switch to "Lento Violento - More", back and forth - you'll hear a clear difference and inferiority of Gigi's sounds regarding dynamics, punchiness and mastering technics at all - it just really, really lacks them. The track "More" could have a lot "more":) potential in itself, but Gigi is struggling to get it out from the track, you can say it. ) - last but not least, pretty sad thing but it may be his last release (given the fact that he struggles to release anything everytime...), so it really counts what is gonna be on that disc, given it may be a "closure" to his musical career (at least in physical compilation CD format). (also, this mastering topic is quite interesting, because its really a two-handed sword: if you can create great music, but you can't master it properly, then you simply fail in today's music world - its just not enough. In this case you have to give out your music from your hands to external music production/mastering agencies, and they may do it for you for a pretty high price, but the mastering may also alter the whole sounding of a given record while they process it. In easier words, it may be "A" when you dream the song itself, and after a finished mastering, it may become "B", a totally new track, even though it was "just" normalized here & there by a team, having some more vibrancy added, etc etc, so the track itself is basically the same, but sounds totally different to ears - of course, at least now it sounds "fair", so just as it needs to be heard on a CD - but as an artist, its not how you'd like it to have it released, because its not what you wanted. Its a pretty interesting topic btw, and I think to narrow it down, basically we must be waiting because of two things: - Gigi doesn't want to let a team master his productions, but he wants to do everything by himself / Luca on their own - he & Luca has just finalized some of the tracks which they'd like to put on the disc, and those tracks wasn't even nowhere when Gigi said "coming in the next weeks" back in January :) I think we gonna have a completely other tracklist than we'd have in January :D (with the previous one having much more lento stuff, and the new one having barely any lento/maybe no lento at all - and that also explains his many lento releases & album for the fans -)

Gigi posted about Psico Dance on Time Records FB page (with his personal private FB) original post: https://www.facebook.com/timerec/posts/10156244246307771?comment_id=10156249434447771&comment_tracking={"tn"%3A"R6"} =

Whaaat.. new CasaDag logo! :-) Something is in the air?

Youtube search on: "Gigi D’Agostino live zero summer club brano con Intro a violino" Seems like some new Psico Dance-material ;) Also you can hear the intro of the In My Mind remix of Gigi towards the end of the video. Also worth a search: "Gigi D’Agostino live zero summer club non conosco il titolo" :) Its a new version of this track, Gigi already played it on a Festival about 1-1.5 month ago, in a bit different version (with more kid-like vocal, and more psi-trance) (IMO that sounded more powerful than this one, but who knows which is going to be released).

Still one of my favourite from the new vocal lento tracks =)

@Erdbeer Wolf

and its down again

It just re-appeared on Discoteca Laziale! ^_^ Release date: 06/07/2018 https://www.discotecalaziale.com/scheda-prodotto.aspx?art=8019991790106

One thing is for sure, Gigi was playing it live in 2010. I've saved this sample from GFU(?) if I remember correctly. I don't know if any of you remember where did it came from/who uploaded it under this codename, can't find it now. :-) It just flashed in my mind that I've heard this previously on GFU :D Islamadag.mp3 (2010-06-20)

One more page where Psico Dance just appeared on ^^ Release date: 06.07.2018 https://www.dischivolanti.ch/it/article/music/M31210/ (they write the same release date Amazon did, before they "decided" to bring down the disc from their shop :D - check this post of mine) Btw Gigi would definitely like this cute cow ^_^ :D

Well the 8 month delay should be handled as Gigi said his "to be released in following weeks" sentence too early :-) There were no other sign of release except of that (and that in the first time, Time also communicated what Gigi said). I guess he already regret that sentence quite a lot :-)

By the way, not sure if you remember but "Suono Libero" also appeared in July back in time, according to discogs on 24 Jul 2008. So why would it be a bad choice :)

So what do you think would be the release date? We can rule out 06/29 for sure, its too close and every site brought the release down for now.

La Feltrinelli says 07/29 :-) I asked them why did it disappear (yesterday) from their catalog as well (as they just added it couple of days ago, just to have it removed soon after): Let's wait couple more weeks and we'll find out. I think the first release date would really be 06/29 but maybe Gigi has made some "last-minute" track modifications, or they may be waiting for more proper audition catch-up for the Dynoro & Gigi track, so it could mean more interest in an upcoming Gigi release if they wait one more month. But who knows, these are also just speculations :D

guys, I really appreciate your comments! :-) More tracks may follow it in the future, maybe not in this exact similar style, but I think you'd be able to find the good ol' spirit in them either - at least really hope so

Btw sampled from: Public Enemy - Hazy Shade Of Criminal, 1992

Only if I had one more time to kick the rhythm that keep rippin' down the door So the real criminals get exposed behind the clothes Doors 'n' the suits that make 'n' break the law... This track also deserves a topic! :-)

Well Gigi could block it anytime if he wants I think, even if we have ASIN, but what would be the point of it then to use the hashmark and stuff. Also he is going to play at Altromondo this summer, once again after many-many years… so I hope these are false informations and its coming as expected :)

Yeah.. now its interesting, in the facebook fan group many people are saying that they got the "trusted" information from Mondadori and similar music stores, that the disc won't come out anymore, at least definitely not in the summer. ... and meanwhile, the disc appeared on some more sites (I've checked, it wasn't available on these sites on Friday, so it must have been uploaded today): https://www.lafeltrinelli.it/musica/cd-album/aavv/psico-dance-by-gigi-d/8019991790106 https://www.webster.it/cd_musicali-album-psico-dance-gigi-agostino-time-8019991790106.htm So is it coming or not coming? :D I think it is. As Gigi is still using the #psicodance hashtag, nothing suggest it is cancelled, it wouldn't make sense to me.

I like it a lot that Gigi is using digital releases so much! I never though one day we'd see that much release

I've asked discoteca laziale why do they brought down the Psico Dance release from their catalog, their answer: "abbiamo un evento in corso, il cd di gigi d'agostino al momento non è disponibile per il preordine, l0uscita è il 29 giugno non appena abbiamo notizie le troverai sul nostro sito" What kind of event could it be, that all distributor are holding it at the same time.. :-)

Bluestar - Waiting For... I'm happy to announce that my first single just got released! :-) (hope i'm not too unashamed to open a topic about it here :D) Any opinion/note is very welcomed on the track! Hope you guys enjoy it. Available as well on: Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Bluestar_Waiting_For?id=Bjbf2n4xia45qclo6f5xfw6zmke Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Bluestar/dp/B07DJQY1WK/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1DnxIam72JGzn9vKYqq8BP?si=D-J009FVT662PyWKTl9gVw

Head of Time Records also posted some update about the Charts position, it seems not so bad: Also the play count on Spotify is really high, if its correct thats really a nice number:

Updated the first post here, you can find there all the info that we know as of now :-) (maybe we could update the first post of this topic on GFU as well?) https://italodanceportal.com/forum/news/gigi-dagostino-luca-noise-psico-dance

(source) Dear Customer,We are sorry to inform you that the supplier has communicated a new availability date for the following items, consequently the new delivery date is: Gigi D'Agostino & Lu "Psico Dance" expected delivery date: 12 july 2018 - 16 july 2018We are sorry for any inconvenience caused by this delay. although we are committed to offering you the best possible buying experience, sometimes delays can occur independently of our Will. So as it seems now, the release date (most possible): 2018.07.06.