FUN FUN 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Italy's Fun Fun helped define the sugar-rush sound of mid-80s Euro disco, pairing fizzy synth hooks with mannequin-fronted lip-sync routines and high-energy vocal cuts from singers like Antonella Pepe and Ivana Spagna. This archival collection charts their rise through continental clubland, anchored by the Ben Liebrand remix of 'Happy Station'-a fizzy, sample-chopped classic that became a fixture in European discos. Other standouts include the stomping neon throb of 'Give Me Your Love', the melodramatic flair of 'Baila Bolero', and the sleeker, Japanophile synth pop of 'Living in Japan'. Also featured is the 'Mega Hit Mix', a Dutch-style megamix by Martin Boer that stitches their biggest tracks into a hands-up medley of stabs, snares and ecstatic breakdowns. For all its plastic glamour, there's real craft here-this is pure Italo escapism with a polished studio touch.

Review: Between 1983 and '87, Fun Fun - a studio project fronted by a trio of female vocalists - delivered some of the most commercially successful Italo-disco records around, with a trademark sound that drew much from the club-ready sound of Hi-NRG. This double-disc collection, subtitled 'The Final Edition', rounds up their greatest hits, B-sides, album tracks, alternative mixes and club versions. Fittingly, it begins with their most lauded track of all, the 'Scratch Mix' of 'Happy Station', before offering up such gems as the tactile and dreamy synth-pop perfection of 'Sing Another Song (Remix)', the soaring Hi-NRG pop perfection of 'Baila Bolero', the sing-along joy of 'Give Up Your Fight (Boxer Remix)' - which sounds like a lost Shep Pettibone club rework from 1986 - and a silly-but-fun cover of the Monkees 'I'm a Believer'.