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  • Greased Lightning

    PVS003

    Artist: Jackpot

    Label: Service

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  • Ragazza

    SRVC010

    Artist: Jackpot

    Label: Service

    Some time back JACKPOT began to fester in a Stockholm apartment. Without fresh air or natural light, the group developed its uniquely mutant strain of italo disco mixed with early 80's body music aided only by the sickly blue rays of late night TV.

    Jackpot's mix of darkroom disco, scrap metal sounds and nasty new beat bass on Ragazza is a musical message in a bottle from 1983 that has floated ashore in our times. It could have been released before Nitzer Ebb's Warsaw Ghetto and the momentum of Italo disco took hold.

  • Uno Dos Tres / Move In The Light

    SERV032

    Artist: Jackpot

    Label: Service

    They've been called one of dance music's best kept secrets: JACKPOT. In 1983 the Italian experimental sound artist Marco Donatello and Swedish synth pioneer Gleen Asp made recordings together. Their ambition was to put sound to an art-project but the result was an erotic cocktail of italo-esque melodies, ebm rhythms, and filmic arpeggios.  

    Legend has it the music was made as an excuse to press records off a narcotic solution in order to smuggle drugs, and that a mishap during the operation explains why we haven't heard these tracks before.

    In any case, this is an exclusive document of unknown yet truly unique Swedish dance music. 

    (High quality 320 kbpm mp3)