Face To Face

Face To Face was Soccio’s fourth and final album and in the same vein as his previous efforts consists of six elongated Italo-disco jams. Each track is built around a continuous 4/4 kick drum over which Soccio adds interlocking synth parts and live instrumental elements to gradually construct his future-disco grooves. This is dance floor music that uses extended electronic vamps to build atmosphere gradually and creates tension by dropping musical elements in and out of the arrangement. Some of the synthetic bass tones here are gloriously fat, there’s a sophistication to his use of piano and orchestration and by the time of his fourth album Soccio had become an expert at crafting his electronic extravaganzas. Overall it’s a classy, distinctive progressive-disco album.