Alexander Robotnick - Computer Sourire

1983 Italo Disco
www.robotnick.it
/ mauriziodami
Bio
The alias of jazz keyboard player and vocalist Maurizio Dami, Alexander Robotnick existed for several years during the mid-'80s as an Italian synth-pop/disco crossover for the Italian label Materiali Sonori. Robotnick enjoyed a healthy fan base far beyond Europe, however, as thousands of import copies of the single "Problèmes d'Amour" ended up influencing many later house and techno pioneers in Chicago and Detroit.
Dami, who began his musical career during the early '80s with visions of being an electronic cabaret singer, bought two Roland synthesizers (the seminal TR-808 and TB-303) to begin recording. Convinced by Materiali Sonori's Giampiero Bigazzi to move into the still fertile Italian disco scene to score a quick hit, Dami recorded "Problèmes d'Amour" and released the single on the Materiali Sonori subsidiary Fuzz Dance in 1983. It became quite an import hit in America's underground club scene, and sparked the mini-LP Ce N'est Qu'un Début that same year. Additional singles like "Computer Sourire" and "C'Est La Vie" appeared on Fuzz Dance during the mid-'80s, but Dami had already moved on by then, later recording under his own name and as GMM, then playing with the ethno-ambient band Masala in the 1990s.

[@TheItalodancers]

One of the fathers of electronic actually.
Amazing years.

[@kevinplanes9979]

I'm French and it's not so easy to understand even if correct! And I actually found that debate while searching for the lyrics because i love them, and the song as well. OK PEOPLE it's not as good as Problèmes d'amour but it's an amazing track to me

[@TheRngreg]

I always loved the artwork on all the Fuzz Dance 12" singles

[@djmusicjac]

oh yeah the chicago house influences can be heard in this italo house tune, i like it

[@frantzbarosy8722]

it's the other way around

[@cyberassassin2012]

That is why House is loved world wide we took from everyone and everywhere.

[@sandrodellisanti1139]

No, before Chicago House came out, Italo-Disco was there..

[@RheingoldxxL]

I still love the 80s ... nothing can be more fit! ... or better?

[@RoninAvenger]

Lol Well have you listened to Italo-Disco songs sung in English? Those don't make sense either, this guy was Italian I think.

[@zack-pd5sm]

pingas!

[@mauricecarter397]

Dam right problem d amour was his best, WBMX.

[@bilalahmad2402]

tingly

[@latr443]

WBMX early '80's.....Love it

[@sandrodellisanti3948]

djmusicjac, in 1983 and 1984 there wasn't any influences of house, italo disco was one of the influences of later chicago house lol

[@hol9672]

Insert the exact title text above the video in MP3GETTER search, enter, and then click on the search result below

[@merwan9394]

I'm french and i understand nothing about the lyrics, there is a story with something wich doesn't exist apparently, and they meet.

[@SzworldNet]

Haven't heard this in 21 years. Thanks

[@discoverydavid]

Carl Craig sampled that first guitar riff on a '69' track called "Filter King No Highs"...
watch?v=RSafwvzHK4o

[@TheEsacitsuj1]

Fuzz Dance EP is Fan-freakin-Tastik :D

[@RoninAvenger]

And my poor French fluency can't understand this much either

[@maximeduchesne2325]

It's about a girl who fall in love with an algorithm basically

[@SCDJMU]

robotnick the king

[@irishelk2]

This song is beast

[@BallinMafia]

Yes!

[@Enigmaticland]

Does someone has the MP3? Please?

[@dowjones5981]

have you found it yet!?!?!?