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Aug 15, 2013 · Before the Italo years, Italian disco was produced by top-end musicians and composers. But can't that be said for any kind of pop music? By the mid- ' 80s, Italo was already pop music.
Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) [1] is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, pop, and electronic music, both domestic and foreign ( hi-NRG, Euro disco) and developed into a diverse ...
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.
Aug 16, 2022 · By the early ’80s, Italy started to move on from aping American disco with tracks like Kano’s Super Extra Sexy Sign (1980) and began to develop its own distinct sound. The ‘Italo disco’ tag was retrospectively applied, widely used from around 1985 by the German ZYX label.
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Originally, it was called 'Italian Disco' or 'Italo Disco' and it was used to define a sound characterised by the use of synthesisers, drum machines and vocoders, with a very clear Italian taste for catchy melodies.
Jan 30, 2020 · Most Italo disco tracks are pretty saccharine. A few, though, go beyond the expected template. In extraordinary moments the music went beyond a mere gimmick to offer genuinely ground-breaking avant-garde pop. B.W.H.’s ‘Stop’, for example, is a euphoric ballad that stands up just fine alongside better known 80s artists like a-ha or The Human League.
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Jul 26, 2022 · 26 July 2022, 14:48. It now sounds like a DJ mix of the most widely-known Italo disco classics, but when it was released in 1999, I-F’s ‘Mixed Up In The Hague Vol. 1’ was a revelation. A window into a sound born in Italy in the late ’70s and ’80s, and obsessed over by the pirate radio stations of I-F’s home city in the south of The ...
