Bio
IRMA records was founded in Bologna in 1988 by an idea by Umberto Damiani and Massimo Benini. Together they ran a wholesaler and some record stores in Emilia Romagna. This had brought them in contact with the musical artists of the region, very present especially in the discos of the Adriatic Riviera.
In the ’80s the independent music of “house genre” was born in Italy and contacts with some deejays like Luca LTJ Trevisi, Claudio Mozart Rispoli and some musicians like Francesco Montefiori and Cesare Collina gave life to the first productions and the first single vinyl mix of ‘record label.
The initial full name was IRMA Casadiprimordine and derived from the name of a very popular brothel in Bologna in the 50s that had been housed in the same building where the label offices were then located.
The English and American deejays fall in love with the particular sound of these first singles: Key Tronics Ensemble. Soft House Company, Be Noir, Don Carlos, Riviera Traxx, Mozart & Master Freez and above all the first big international success: Double Dee featuring Dany with “Found Love”, in fact reaches the n.1 of the Dance Charts of the whole world.
With the success of the singles signed Jestofunk (“Can we live”, “Say it again”, “I’m gonna love you”) and of the Datura group (Yerba Del Diablo, Eternity and Devotion) the record label publishes the first complete albums, thus beginning what would have been from then on the main editorial choice.
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