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- Originally known as ‘spaghetti disco’, the term ‘Italo’ was first used by the German label ZYX to market compilations of Italian records that were popular in the clubs of Northern Europe.
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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.
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 ...
- '80s UK Pop
- Italo House
- Synthwave
Sometimes known as Eurobeat, the dominant UK pop sound of the late ’80s was heavily influenced by Italo disco. Powerhouse production trio Stock Aitken Waterman achieved over 100 UK top 40 hit singles with sounds inspired by Italo. You can hear hints of Italo all over SAW productions such as Mel & Kim’s Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend), Banana...
Just as disco in the US helped lay the groundwork for the house scene that followed, Italo disco morphed into Italo house. Listen to Klein & MBO’s Dirty Talk (1982) and you can hear the blueprint for Italo house hits like Black Box’s Ride On Time (1989) and Cappella’s U Got 2 Let The Music(1993).
Unsurprisingly for a genre which wears its ’80s references on its sleeve, synthwave is packed with Italo disco tropes, from its use of melody to its synth sounds. Tracks like Kano’s Another Life or Clio’s Faces(both 1983) sound like they could be released today and fit neatly into the synthwave world.
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Jun 7, 2021 · Italo disco, or italo-disco, is a hybrid subgenre of pop music, electronic music, and dance music that emerged from Europe in the late 1970s and 1980s. Though the term “Italo” signifies that Italy was its primary source, Italo disco is more of an umbrella term than a specific designation.
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 ...
- Late 1970s – early 1980s, Italy
Mar 22, 2021 · Disco music was popular during the 1970s but in the early part of the ’70s, there was no such thing as disco music. What we did have was plenty of songs that had infectious, danceable beats in the early ’70s. These were precursors to and inspired disco music. Performers like Diana Ross who started off singing rock & roll songs segued to ...
Feb 27, 2015 · The excellent Archivio Fonografico Moderno label (cofounded by one of Italo's most golden of voices, Fred Ventura) recently re-pressed some of Italo’s most beguiling oddities, from Mr. Master ...
