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If the summer is made for dancing and make love nothing is better than the Disco Sgualdrina guest mix of this month. Straight from Milan, they deliver an hour of pure blasting Italo Disco for your guilty pleasure. Electro, latin, house grooves and more tropical fruits. Freschissimo!

Disco Sgualdrina finally step into FTGD control room, bringing you the perfect mix for this hot boiling summer. They’re a killer DJ duo from Milan who blends 80s and 90s retro sounds across sexy italo disco, house, japanese city pop, and iconic TV moments. Their sets are a sort of adventurous and unpredictable megamix designed to shake off inhibitions, with a touch of irony that never hurts. This time they come with a super refreshing selection that will quench your musical thirst. They bounce effortlessly between disco, latin, boogie funk rhythms, to italo disco, house, eurobeat and a extra touch of pop. This stands out as a highly roller - perfectly suited for the long summer days as well as the hottest moments of the night. Enjoy this fruta sabrosa!

Surfing in Biarritz, in the 1980s was wild: surfing was punk, surfers were outlaws. They had a thirst for pure thrill that could lead to the top of the world or directly into prison. Directed and written by two local surfers Pierre Denoyel and Nathan Curren, ‘Biarritz Surf Gang’ tells the unknown story of the six best European surfers of the 80s. The history of their greatness, decadence and their fall. It's also a story about how surfing changed from being a counterculture phenomenon to a high-performance sport it is nowadays. The setting in Biarritz, at La Grand Plage, the Super 8 archive footage and the crazy characters that to this day still rule the local scene make ‘Biarritz Surf Gang’ one of the outstanding documentaries of the genre. A lawless and unique moment in the 80s – enjoy.

Pirate radio was once the primary area of counterculture, contributing to the growth of rock, punk, hip hop, afrobeat, and even mainstream culture and politics. In the 1980s, Japan experienced a massive, or as it is sometimes called, a “micro” pirate radio movement. Countless radio stations that could only broadcast within walking distance appeared; they were deeply experimental, doing things like hanging microphones from the ceiling or making portable radio stations by putting their equipment on bicycles. FM Koenji, KIDS, Boss-FM, Two & A Half, IBS-FM, Radio Home Run and others had a certain “local” and “DIY” aesthetic, with the use of self-published papers, stylized verification cards, and some even experimented with “cassette magazines”. Many of them even attempted to turn listeners into active participants and would let anyone broadcast on the show. This mini-FM movement was pivotal to radio culture in Japan and has never been thoroughly explored. Mini-FM did not last forever. It seems that it started to decline in the late 80s and fell off completely around the 90s.

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Summer is around the corner, the brand new episode is out and more importantly it’s brought to you by Cristiano Bencini. He’s a talented Rome based dj, producer and vinyl connoisseur since the late 80s. Co-founder of the labels Onda Records and GIM Records (he’s part of Groove In Mind duo together with Roberto Calamia), he counts collaborations with Kai Alcé, Vincent Floyd, Byron The Aquarius, Emanuele Inglese, The Mechanical Man, Raoul and others. His style is escapist, deeply cinematic, crafting soundscapes that blur the lines between balearic, jazz, electronic, deep house and disco. Bencini’s passion for music knows no boundaries, whether on mix or behind the decks, he invites listeners into a world where emotion, space, and memory guide the rhythm. Roll a fat one, look at the sea and listen to this inspired forty-minutes tapestry of ambient, electro, world, soft rock and afro in a blissful, slow-motion fashion - dare we say, it’s so balearic.

V.A. - Rituals After Progress (Lobo Records)

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Whodamanny - Onda Biloba (Periodica)

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Crema Ballare is a DJ duo from Munich, born at a friend’s Party in Italy. Their sound ranges from classic house, garage house and funk to new wave, balearic and italo disco, always digging for dancefloor bangers and edits of forgotten gems. Their mission is to deliver warm, groovy vibes – for the dancefloor or relaxed bar moments with friends. They never miss their deep digs and careful retouches. Let's start to move your feet, sweating on this delicious fifty minute mixage of house, electro, boogie, nu-disco and italo sensation. Florence - Munich connection for your listening pleasure. Balla, balla, ballare!

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Sunday Mourners – A-Rhythm Absolute (Curation Records)

Trevor Hughes is a street photographer living in Toronto, Canada. These photos are a look back – way back to the years 1992-1998 when he worked as a bike messenger. He had an unique opportunity to document an intimate portrait of the bike messenger community in Toronto. His approach was minimalist: small compact waist bag (allowed quick access to camera), a Rollei 35 SE, Ilford HP5 film, B+W rubber lens hood. For 9 years the Rollei was his constant companion on the road while he was working as a messenger. Throughout the seasons and in all weather conditions the Rollei performed flawlessly. Trevor declared: "it was impossible for me when photographing not only to want to record but also to glamorize, romanticize, mythologize this tribe/subculture with their camaraderie, swagger and outsider attitude. I sought stillness, the intimate moments I could capture between the hectic dashes through city streets and traffic". Here's the 'golden age' of bike messengers. Before cycling cafes, before fixed gear bikes became the trademark of hipsters, before the word hipster even existed. Being a cycle courier was just another way of making a living, and not some kind of misguided fashion statement.

'All Junglists: A London Someting Dis' is a documentary tracing the origins of drum & bass through jungle music that was first shown as part of Channel 4's Black Christmas season in 1994. With All Junglists you really feel like you’re capturing the energy of the jungle and rave scene in 1993-1994. There's a sense that something special is happening with the music, and with the communities around it. A great variety of people are featured from Mickey Finn, LTJ Bukem, Navigator and the Ragga Twinz to Paul Ibiza, and Paul and Kingsley from Roast. Issues around race and class are not skirted around. While it is acknowledged that jungle is bringing black and white communities together — “we are all under one roof raving, laughing and joking together,” Kenny Ken says in the documentary — it is also acknowledged that Black ravers are also being denied access to events. We learn what Congo Natty means when he asserts that “jungle is the ragamuffin of house”. A great introduction to what jungle was, and how it captured the hearts of the nation’s young in such a way that it caught the eye of the mainstream media. If you had to pick one documentary to represent the emergence of jungle, this would be it.