Six years after the original instalment, and a good nine months after its original release date, Italians Do It Better finally dropped their long-awaited After Dark 2 compilation last month - an [...]
Watch the gauzy video for Glass Candy’s ‘The Possessed’
New Johnny Jewel productions are always cause for excitement around these parts, and Glass Candy is one of the producer's most reliable projects.
'The Possessed' was leaked earlier in the week, [...]
Chromatics’ Johnny Jewel covers New Order and Kraftwerk on lovely new mix
Italians Do It Better boss Johnny Jewel has been the picture of generosity this year.
In his capacity as figurehead of warped disco doyens Chromatics, Jewel's gifted us a mini-album of studio o [...]
Download a remastered version of seminal Italians Do It Better compilation After Dark
Johnny Jewel shares the compilation central to the Italo-disco revival.
In 2007, Johnny Jewel and Mike Simonetti quietly released the Italians Do It Better sampler After Dark. As Jewel says on [...]
Download the slinky ‘LET’S KISS/SUNDAY MORNING MIX’ from Chromatics chief Johnny Jewel
Italians Do It Better boss Johnny Jewel has posted up a beguiling mix for download.
The 'LET'S KISS/SUNDAY MORNING MIX' set is taken from Jewel's appearance on Making Time Radio. The intervie [...]
Italians Do It Better announce sequel to After Dark compilation
2007's After Dark was a seminal compilation for the Italo-disco revival; the sequel is "almost 5 years in the making."
Italians Do It Better, the powerhouse label run by Mike Simonetti and John [...]
Chromatics and Desire release a new Black & White artbook
Johnny Jewel's retro-pop troupe Chromatics, not content with releasing an often-excellent new album Kill for Love, have released a black and white artbook in collaboration with Desire.
Titled s [...]
Chromatics: Kill For Love
Available on: Italians Do It Better LP
“I wanted to bring it back to an album opener that says ‘rock ‘n’ roll can never die’. Because everyone’s using synths now”.
So says John [...]
Symmetry: Themes for an Imaginary Film
Available on: Italians Do It Better LP
Johnny Jewel is a man of many projects, but so little range that one sometimes wonders why he bothers. The latest is Symmetry, borne from the ashes of a [...]
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