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The following is a list of Italo disco artists and songs, divided in two sections. The first section includes notable Italo disco groups and solo artists. The second section includes Italo disco songs. Solo artists are listed alphabetically by last name while groups are listed alphabetically by the first letter (not including the prefix "the ...
Cet article présente une liste d'artistes d'Italo disco, classés par ordre alphabétique. Liste [ modifier | modifier le code ] Baltimora [ 1 ] , [ 2 ] , [ 3 ]
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Dec 1, 2020 · That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.”. – Giorgio Moroder. Over the last thirty years, Italo disco has gone from being a tasteless novelty item and guilty pleasure to a snobbish cult presided over by the techno elite. Here, we turn the lights on at the disco in an effort to find out exactly what Italo is and why it still matters.
- Terminology
- History
- Related Styles and Legacy
- See Also
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The term "Italo", a generic prefix meaning Italian, had been used on pop music compilation albums in West Germany as early as 1978, such as Italo Top Hits on the K-Tel label and the first volume of Italo Super Hitson the Ariola label. There is no documentation of where the term "Italo-Disco" first appeared, but its origins are generally traced to I...
Origins: 1977–1990
Italo disco originated in Europe in the late 1970s. After Disco Demolition Nightin 1979, American interest in disco sharply declined, whereas in Europe the genre maintained mainstream popularity and survived into the 1980s. The adoption of synthesizers and other electronic instruments by disco artists led to electronic dance music, which spawned many subgenres such as hi-NRG in America and space disco in Europe. Italo disco's influences include Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, French musicia...
Derivative styles
Canada, particularly Quebec, produced several remarkable Italo disco acts, including Trans X ("Living on Video"), Lime ("Angel Eyes"), Rational Youth ("City of Night"), Pluton & the Humanoids ("World Invaders"), Purple Flash Orchestra ("We Can Make It"), and Tapps ("Forbidden Lover"). Those productions were called "Canadian disco" during 1980–1984 in Europe and hi-NRGdisco in the U.S. In English-speaking countries, it was called Italo disco and hi-NRG. In Mexico the style is known just as "di...
Eurobeat
As Italo disco declined in Europe, Italian and West-German producers adapted the sound to Japanese tastes, creating "Eurobeat". Music produced in this style is sold exclusively in Japan due to the country's Para Paraculture, produced by Italian producers for the Japanese market. The two most famous Eurobeat labels are A-Beat-C Records and Time Records. One traditional Italo disco label, S.A.I.F.A.M., still produces Eurobeat music for Japan. Around 1989 in Italy, Italo disco evolved into Italo...
Space disco
At least one modern history of "space disco" traces the genre's origins to science fiction themes (outer space, robots, and the future) in the titles, lyrics and cover artwork of dance music in the late 1970s. Plausible associations are drawn between the popularity of Star Wars (released mid-1977), the subsequent surge of interest in science fiction themes in popular culture, and the release of a number of science fiction themed and "futuristic"-sounding (synthesizer and arpeggiator-infused)...
Post-disco and house music
New York City-based post-disco record label Emergency Records specialized in reissuing/selling records from Italy (e.g. Kano "I'm Ready"), since the 1970s. Kano is noted for incorporating American musical elements ("heavy funk" influences, "breakbeat" rhythm, the use of vocoder) with electronic music while using rudimentary synthesizers, constituting one of the earliest forms of Italo disco. This form of Americanized Italo disco, that also includes Klein + M.B.O. ("Dirty Talk", "Wonderful", "...
Peterink, Jeroen (2012). I Venti D'Azzurro presents The History of Italo Disco.Reynolds, Simon (2013). Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-78316-6.Catalda Verrina, Francesco (2015). The History Of Italo DiscoTodesco, Raff (2020). ITALO DISCO: History of Dance Music in Italy from 1975 to 1988Eurodance Magazine Archived 2021-12-03 at the Wayback Machine- music blog about Eurodance and Italo discoScene and heard: Italo-disco The Guardianmodifier. L' Italo disco, parfois écrit Italo-disco ou abrégé en Italo, ou encore italo disco sans majuscule, est un genre musical dérivé du disco qui a émergé en Italie à la fin des années 1970. Le nom du genre est largement attribué à Bernhard Mikulski, le fondateur du label discographique ouest-allemand ZYX Music.
The first section includes notable Italo disco groups and solo artists. The second section includes Italo disco songs. Solo artists are listed alphabetically by last name while groups are listed alphabetically by the first letter (not including the prefix "the", "a" or "an").
In Collection. Images. Lists. Reviews. Top 100 Italo-Disco. Byhystericupdated 8 years ago. For some maybe not the greatest or most important italo records, but my personal favourites. Want to see other lists from the Discogs Community?
