Mixed by Errythe film directed by Sydney Sibilia which tells the story of Henry Fractosesaid errythe man who in the eighties created a business, and an empire, thanks to the counterfeit cassettes sold throughout Italy and subsequently also internationally, was a real case.
What perhaps not everyone knows is that the film comes to life thanks to the book by Simona Frasca, Mixed by Erry. The story of the Frattasio brotherswho is today a guest on our pages for a video interview.
Let’s take a step back for those who weren’t yet old enough to shop and maybe don’t know what we’re talking about, but it’s legitimate to explain it to them.
Reality Mixed by Erry is the quintessential phenomenon of music piracy, so strong as to become in the 80s and early 90s, the main music diffusion in Italy, more than any real record company.
Suffice it to say that in the period 85/95, the production and sale of about 40,000 pieces per day had been reached. Yes, per day, you got it right.
There was talk of a parallel market that had started at the end of the 70s almost as a joke, from a small shop where he worked Henry Fractoseone of the 4 brothers who shortly thereafter, unknowingly will find themselves in their hands a real empire that will give work (this too is a paradox, of course) to thousands of Neapolitan boys, first from a complicated neighborhood like Forcella, then slowly to a large slice throughout the city.
Henry it created something that we have all done in life, of which even the writer, having always bought a myriad of records, confesses a public sin: compilations for friends.
Those of Henry but they had become an institution in Forcella and shortly thereafter, Josephthe older brother of the 4, invents a real business that years and years later, and after having paid for his fraud with prison for several years, Simona Branch he decided to tell through the book which then also became a film, and from there a real phenomenon of curiosity both for those who have experienced it for ages, and for those who weren’t even there at the time.
And there are so many curiosities about it Simona he tells us about them in this exclusive video interview, which I really invite you to watch. She will explain to you a world, a period, a time that today, in the era of Spotifyit really seems impossible to conceive, and yet…
Here you are Simona Frasca and the story of Mixed by Erry.
