Alexander Robotnick
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.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Problèmes D'amour (All Versions)
Electronic - Released by Materiali Sonori on 1 Jan 1983
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Obsession for the Disco Freaks
Electronic - Released by Fool's Gold Records on 2 Jun 2009
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You Need Self Control (Altieri Remix)
Dance - Released by Ritmo Fatale on 14 Oct 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Lost (Kompute Mix)
Electronic - Released by Kompute Musik on 1 May 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
It's Over There, Vol. 2
House - Released by LoupBlanc Recordings on 19 Jun 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ciucci Kola Remixes
House - Released by Scatalogics Records on 15 Apr 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
It's Over There Vol. 1
Techno - Released by LoupBlanc Recordings on 9 Aug 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
It's Over There 2023...
House - Released by LoupBlanc Recordings on 21 Jun 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo