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Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) 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 ...
- Late 1970s – early 1980s, Italy
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.
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Jun 7, 2021 · Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 4 min read. Italo disco was a popular form of dance music in Europe and other countries during the 1980s, known for its electronic grooves and sci-fi themes.
Feb 27, 2015 · An overview of the most amazingly uncool genre ever created—Italo Disco—and how its absurd chintziness still inspires electronic artists around the globe. By Andy Beta. February 27, 2015....
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Pitchfork. Retrieved 1 May 2015. Anybody truly scandalized about this track's sampling of Gary Low's Italo-disco jam "I Want You" would've been just as pissed at the 1983 original for having synths. ^ Catling, Simon Jay (21 June 2010). "Washed Out". The Quietus. Retrieved 1 May 2015. The most notable pillage is Gary Low's 1983 Italo disco ...
Aug 15, 2013 · So it's impossible to define where Italo starts and ends. Just like disco or any other genre. The name "Italo" was invented in the mid-'80s by German label ZYX when they released these From the ...
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 ...
