The 90’s were many things. It was the long decade of the Short Twentieth Century, which began with the fall of the Wall and ended with the attack on the Twin Towers. The 90’s have been creative and destructive years, in which everything seemed both possible and at the same time close to collapsing.
These were also the golden years of the Romagna Riviera, the destination of a generation answering the call of dance music. And there, in the iconic pyramid-shaped nightclub called Cocoricò, a chapter of international clubbing history was written. The Cocoricò was not just a place, it was a temple of entertainment, a theater of artistic, political and social expressions and tensions, a space that welcomed the emotions and anguish of past and present times. Cocoricò Tapes starts right here.
Cocoricò Tapes is indeed a documentary on the “Mecca of techno music”, but above all it wants to use this place, object (as well as pagan temple) of a true worship, to recount both an unrepeatable, burning period and a whole generation, one of people who crammed their twenties, their dreams, their desires under the Pyramid.
A story that speaks to the nostalgia of those who danced to the notes of International DJs back then, and also speaks to the curiosity of those who arrived after that period, and there- fore only heard of the Cocoricò, as if it were a legend.
A story told through the unpublished images of those years and through the words - from today and back then - of Loris Riccardi, legendary Art Director of the club in its golden years, of the director Renzo Palmieri, of the famous PR’s Silvia Minguzzi and Giuseppe Moratti, of Prince Maurice, the performer par excellence, and of those who attended the Cocoricò every week, as if it were a collective ritual.