Flemming Dalum - Italo Good Times (2011) 320 / Lossless

Following its initial, limited-edition release in 2011, copies of this sparkling mix of forgotten, mid '80s Italo from Danish digger Flemming Dalum has been changing hands for upwards of L30 on Discogs. Here it gets a deserved repress, allowing skinflints everywhere the chance to bask in its tongue-in-cheek glory. Dalum is something of a synthesizer fetishist, and here he celebrates the appregiated basslines, sparkling stabs and Fairlight-ish chords that were such a feature of Italo between 1984 and '87. In typical Flemming style, few of the records are well known, even in Italy, but that's half the fun. And as the title hints, Italo Good Times is most definitely fun.