CHRIS COCO, DJ ROCCA — Cocorocca Discoteca

DJ Rocca and Chris Coco spent some time hanging out together by the pool at an intimate festival called La Casella in Umbria in the late summer of 2019. They spent a lot of time talking about Italo Disco, the Rimini / Riccione riviera in it’s heyday in the 90s and classic clubs from the early days of the Italian scene. By the end of that beautiful weekend they had decided to make some music together that would somehow capture and reflect their own hazy memories of places they visited or played and nostalgic dreams of earlier scenes they were too young to participate in. Over the ensuing months the idea developed into an imaginary retro-futuristic club called CocoRocca DiscoTeca, a fantasy version of a past club that never existed and at the same time a future club that was really possible to create one day. If there was such a club, what would the music sound like? Surely, a fusion of various sounds of dub/house/disco that the pair of DJs had been collecting and playing out for years. So inspiration lists were made and ,slowly, a soundtrack for a night at that imaginary club began to take shape, beginning slow and dreamy, for the moment of arrival; lifting up to a peak; and finally drifting down to the final tune of the night. The result goes something like this…