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Cat: DE 066. Rel: 7 Jul 14
Disco/Nu Disco/Re-Edits

Side 1 - Track 1. Witch (vocal version) Side 1 - Track 2. Witch (instrumental version) Side 2 - Track 1. Zanzibar (original version) Side 2 - Track 2. Zanzibar (Afro mix)

Dark Entries' series of leftfield Italo-disco reissues continues with a double-header from prolific Italo disco session vocalist Helen (AKA Elena Ferretti), whose early excursions on obscure Italian labels Out Records and Discomagic have previously been the sole preserve of dusty-fingered crate-diggers. This EP brings together two of her finest EPs; 1983's scarce "Witch" - an exercise in bubbling, synth-pop inclined Italo-disco - and 1985's arguably better-known "Zanzibar". It's arguably the sparse, cowbell-laden "Afro Mix" - think Cosmic Club era Daniele Baldelli - of this track that steals the show, though all four tracks are shot through with that European strangeness that often marks out the best early Italo cuts.