Alexander Robotnick – Problèmes D'Amour

Both sides are great, and have their place in a sophisticated night of music on high-end Club Systems like at The Loft, Paradise Garage, Studio 54, Bond's, Gotham West, The Saint, Crisco Disco, Infernos, Better Days, Broadway 96, etc., being played by a DJ who knows what he is doing. With two copies, and top-level Music / DJ creativity, you can extend parts of each side, and, if you are really top-level, you can intermix parts of each track to create your own "go-with-the-flow" live signature mix of this masterpiece dance track!

Top-Level Club Music that was played by DJ David Mancuso at the World Famous Disco Club "The Loft" on 99 Prince Street in New York City on David's Visionary Club System - an array of Mark Levinson Power Amps with Big Custom Klipsch Bass Bottom Scoops and an array of Klipschorns. David Pioneered the Customization of Technics 1800s with Custom Tonearms and Koetsu Cartridges for Audio Magic! He used the best available Interconnects and Speaker Cabling at the time. It would have been great to hear the Levinson / Klipsch combo with Cardas Golden Cross Cabling which did not hot the Market until 1987...

Much overlooked: Carl Craig's take on this Italo fave:

https://discogs.librosgratis.biz/Designer-Music-Problemz-The-Truth/master/307666

A great track in its own right.

Alexander Robotnick said in a interview: "Giampiero, the head of Materiali Sonori, pushed me to make some disco music, because we were both broke. "We can make easy money with disco music," he said to me. "Just put a bass drum in four/four and you sell 10,000 copies!" So I worked on a disco track with my cheap electronic equipment. The track was "Problèmes d'Amour." Anyway, I was disappointed by the results of "Problèmes." We sold just 10,000 copies, so it was the minimum figure, as I said above. And I started to be involved in different things. But some years later I understood that the track had an impressive influence on dance music and it was a cult track for some DJs. In the end it's better like this. It's not bad to have a song that is still relevant for the scene."

People talk about the foundations of techno and house; this is one of the original tracks that created both genres. This record was a must during the early 80s in Detroit, MI. A timeless classic!

Unique, original Bass-synth sound doing an extremely sophisticated riff...mock-eerie organ sound...slightly off-key rhythm-guitar stabs doing a Jamaican Ska thang... basic, crude "proto-house" drum-machine track...Background female vocalists singing in perfect French...Slightly cheesey male vocalist also singing in French, but not as well, and with an obvious Italian accent...catchy arrangement but no real low frequencies...sounds like a recipe for disaster, right? But this quirky masterpiece captivated the ears, hearts and minds of almost 2 generations of old school DJs and Dancers. The song was massive at David Mancuso's Loft and Larry Levan's Paradise Garage, and even Bruce Forest got a good response from his Better Days crowd...so good that he was inspired to remix it for Sire. That dubby remix is also a must-own, but this review is of the original, "fat-label" 12 inch release, and both sides of this single are totally timeless, essential, and belong in everyone's crates.