Volcano of tape
March 08, 2023

'Mixed by Erry' - the new movie about the biggest Italian pirates

A new biopic 'Mixed by Erry” tells an amazing story about a huge pirate cassette mixtape business in Italy in the 1980s and the 1990s. Enrico Frattasio started the label selling his tapes to illegal stallholders in his working-class neighbourhood in Naples. By the late 80s, Mixed by Erry had spread throughout Italy and beyond, employing 100 people with an annual gross of around €4,5m in today’s money. “I was the YouTube or Spotify of the 1980s... I was doing a serious curator job” - Frattasio says, Guardian reports. Watch the trailer below.