Italian dance music site Electronique is reporting today that DJ/producer and Italo-disco pioneer Salvatore Cusato passed away yesterday. Recording under the name Casco, Cusato leaves behind a string of dance floor classics that still sound as smart today as ever. The 1983 cut "Cybernetic Love" marked his studio debut and easily ranks among the most legendary (and best!) Italo jams ever.
"To hear that this track is still appreciated today is a big honor," Cusato told Italo Deviance in 2008, revealing Steven Spielberg's E.T. as its primary source of inspiration: "It is an impossible love story, between a little girl and an extra terrestrial. They cannot communicate because the cyber love didn't exist yet... but the story has a happy end!" (Weird!)
Also check this awesome 2009 interview from Magic Waves, which includes links to vintage Cusato DJ sets from 1976 and 1981.
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