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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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Jul 16, 2016 · In 1979, rock DJ Steve Dahl donned a combat helmet to blow up a crate of disco records, a stunt now known as Disco Demolition. Paul Natkin/Curbside Splendor. It was the summer of 1979, and disco ...
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Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [129]
Jul 31, 2017 · “You know, it’s funny, but in the ‘80s we stopped using the term ‘disco’; described the music with a million names — hi energy, Italo disco, progressive — but in the end it was still disco,” Ciro Llerena told me. The next time the country heard from Miami was in the fall of 1984, when Miami Vice hit the air.
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 ...
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. The defining characteristics of Italo disco set it apart from the ...
