Pink Project - Disco Project

Pink Project - Disco Project

The origins of "Disco Project" can be traced back to Pulga and Ninzatti's club nights as DJs. In early 1982, they realized that Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" and The Alan Parsons Project's equally popular "Mammagamma" were in the same tempo and, in some sections, in the same key. They proceeded to create a mix, opening with Parson's "Sirius" (another popular track from their 1982 album Eye in the Sky), then going straight into "Mammagamma" (avoiding Parsons' transition to his album's title track), over which an a cappella version of the children's choir from "Another Brick in the Wall" was superimposed, with the octave bass and steady drums from "Mammagamma" running all the way through. With copyright issues preventing the two musicians from releasing the actual original tracks, they decided to play a mashup ex-novo with the aid of two top-notch session players, Ellade Bandini on drums and Pier Michelatti on bass. The vocals were performed by Italian-American vocalists Linda Wesley, Rossana Casale (still unknown as a solo artist at the time) and Naimy Hackett and multi-tracked at a slightly faster speed to simulate a schoolchildren's choir. The choir also followed the key shift in the music of "Mammagamma", which was not present in the original mix by Pulga and Ninzatti, and the full album version features another key shift toward the end, which was also not in the original mix and was arranged by Pulga especially for the (extended) album track.