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Nu-disco

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Nu-disco, sometimes called disco house, which can also refer to funky house and to a style of French house, is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with a renewed interest in 1970s and 1980s US disco, early to end-1980s Italo disco and Funk, as well as other synthesizer-heavy European dance styles. [1]

63 relations: Afro/Cosmic music, Alternative dance, Balearic beat, Beatport, Bee Gees, Bernard Edwards, Blurred Lines, Breakbot, Call on Me (Eric Prydz song), Classixx, Daft Punk, Dance music, Dave Lee (DJ), DFA Records, Dimitri from Paris, Disco, Discovery (Daft Punk album), DJ Harvey, Electro swing, Electroclash, Eric Prydz, Faze Action, François Kevorkian, French house, Funk, Funky house, Germanic umlaut, Get Lucky (Daft Punk song), Gigamesh, Goldroom, Greg Wilson (DJ), Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, Homework (Daft Punk album), Hong Kong, Italo dance, Italo disco, James Murphy (electronic musician), Juno Records, Larry Levan, LCD Soundsystem, Lola's Theme, Lovefreekz, Michael Gray (DJ), Nile Rodgers, Nu-funk, Nuphonic, Out of Touch, Poolside (band), Prins Thomas, Re-edit, ..., Robin Thicke, Shep Pettibone, So Much Love to Give, The Juan MacLean, The Rapture (band), The Shapeshifters, The Weekend (Michael Gray song), Thomas Bangalter, Todd Terje, UK Singles Chart, Vaporwave, Waiting for a Star to Fall, White label. Expand index (13 more) »

Afro/Cosmic music

In music, the terms Afro, cosmic disco, “Looking over to the blogosphere, the largest hipster tremors came from the rediscovery of the Italian ‘Cosmic Disco’ sound (a mid-tempo stew of balearic disco pioneered by Beppe Loda and Daniele Baldelli)…” “Originally championed by Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli, cosmic disco funkily trudges along at about 80–105 bpm, as if Robitussin replaced coke as the producers' and dancers' drug of choice.

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Alternative dance

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative or indie rock with post-disco dance music.

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Balearic beat

Balearic beat, also known as Balearic house, or simply Balearic initially is an eclectic blend of DJ-led dance music that emerged in the mid-1980s.

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Beatport

Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle.

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Bee Gees

The Bee Gees --> were a pop music group formed in 1958.

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Bernard Edwards

Bernard Edwards (October 31, 1952 – April 18, 1996) was an American bass player, singer, songwriter and record producer, known primarily for his work in disco music with guitarist Nile Rodgers, with whom he co-founded the band Chic.

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Blurred Lines

"Blurred Lines" is a single written and performed by American recording artists Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharrell Williams.

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Breakbot

Thibaut Jean-Marie Michel Berland (born October 5, 1981), known by his stage name Breakbot, is a French producer and a DJ who has been signed with Ed Banger Records since May 2009.

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Call on Me (Eric Prydz song)

"Call on Me" is a song co-written and recorded by Swedish DJ and producer Eric Prydz.

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Classixx

Classixx is an American electronic music record production and DJ duo, based in Los Angeles, composed of Michael David and Tyler Blake.

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Daft Punk

Daft Punk are a French electronic music duo from Paris formed in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dave Lee (DJ)

Dave Lee (born 18 June 1964) is a British DJ and house music producer, also known by the stage name Joey Negro (pronounced). He has released music under a variety of pseudonyms, including Jakatta, Doug Willis, Raven Maize, Sessomatto as well as being part of The Sunburst Band.

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DFA Records

DFA Records is an independent record label and production team (known as The DFA) that was established in 2001 by Mo' Wax co-founder Tim Goldsworthy, musician James Murphy, and manager Jonathan Galkin.

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Dimitri from Paris

Dimitri from Paris (born Dimitrios Yerasimos in October 1963) is a Turkish born French music producer and DJ of Greek descent.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Discovery (Daft Punk album)

Discovery is the second studio album by French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 26 February 2001 by Virgin Records.

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DJ Harvey

DJ Harvey, (born Harvey Bassett), is a DJ born in London, England.

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Electro swing

Electro swing is a music genre that combines the influence of vintage or modern swing and jazz mixed with house, hip hop, and EDM.

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Electroclash

Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.

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Eric Prydz

Eric Sheridan Prydz (born 19 July 1976), also known by his aliases Pryda and Cirez D (among a number of others), is a Swedish DJ, record producer, and musician.

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Faze Action

Faze Action are a British band composed of brothers Simon and Robin Lee.

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François Kevorkian

François Kevorkian, alias François K (born 10 January 1954), is a French DJ of Armenian origin, remixer, producer and record label owner.

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French house

French house is a style of house music originally produced by French artists, a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance music scene and a form of Euro disco.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funky house

Funky house, also known as disco house (though the latter can also refer to nu-disco and to a style of French house), is a subgenre of house music that uses funk or disco samples, a funk or disco-inspired bass line or a strong soul influence, combined with drum breaks that draw inspiration from 1970s and 1980s funk or disco records.

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Germanic umlaut

The Germanic umlaut (sometimes called i-umlaut or i-mutation) is a type of linguistic umlaut in which a back vowel changes to the associated front vowel (fronting) or a front vowel becomes closer to (raising) when the following syllable contains,, or.

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Get Lucky (Daft Punk song)

"Get Lucky" is a song by French house music duo Daft Punk, featuring Pharrell Williams and co-written by the duo, Williams, and Nile Rodgers.

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Gigamesh

Matthew Thomas Masurka (born May 12, 1983), better known by his stage name Gigamesh, is a Minneapolis-based American three-time multi-platinum selling music producer and DJ.

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Goldroom

Josh Legg, known professionally as Goldroom, is an American electronic musician.

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Greg Wilson (DJ)

Greg Wilson (born 1960) is an English DJ and producer associated with both the early 80s electro scene in Manchester and the current disco / re-edit movement.

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Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

Hans-Peter Lindstrøm (born 16 February 1973) is a Norwegian producer who works under the name Lindstrøm.

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Homework (Daft Punk album)

Homework is the debut studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 20 January 1997 by Virgin Records and Soma Quality Recordings.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Italo dance

Italo dance, also known as nu Italo disco, nu-Italo or just Italo, is an offshoot of the Eurodance music genre, which was especially popular in Europe in the late 1990s to the early 2000s.

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Italo disco

Italo disco (sometimes hyphenated, such as Italo-disco, subjected to varying capitalization, or abbreviated as Italo) is a music genre which originated in Italy and was mainly produced from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.

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James Murphy (electronic musician)

James Jeremiah Murphy (born February 4, 1970) is an American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Juno Records

Juno Records is a UK-based online dance music retail store, selling vinyl records, CDs, music downloads and music accessories, founded by Richard Atherton and Sharon Boyd.

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Larry Levan

Larry Levan (born Lawrence Philpot, July 20, 1954 – November 8, 1992) was an American DJ best known for his decade-long residency at the New York City night club Paradise Garage, which has been described as the prototype of the modern dance club.

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LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002.

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Lola's Theme

"Lola's Theme" is the debut single by British house duo The Shapeshifters.

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Lovefreekz

Lovefreekz is the alias of British house music producer/remixer Mark Hadfield.

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Michael Gray (DJ)

Michael Gray (born 25 July 1979) is a British DJ and house music producer.

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Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist.

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Nu-funk

Nu funk is a contemporary genre of funk.

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Nuphonic

Nuphonic was an independent record label that were based in London, England from 1994 to 2002.

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Out of Touch

"Out of Touch" is a song by American duo Daryl Hall and John Oates from their twelfth studio album Big Bam Boom (1984).

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Poolside (band)

Poolside are Los Angeles based duo Filip Nikolic and Jeffrey Paradise—their sound is described as "Daytime Disco." Poolside's debut single "Do You Believe" was positively received by peers, Todd Terje, Dimitri From Paris, and The Magician, and Dazed & Confused praised the song for its "pop-tinged disco, brimming with optimistic vocals and retro acid synths," while NME lauded its "supremely casual decadence." "Take Me Home," Poolside's second single was released in November 2011 and was used as the first song on Aeroplane's In Flight Entertainment compilation.

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Prins Thomas

Thomas Moen Hermansen, recording under the name Prins Thomas, is a Norwegian record producer and DJ often associated with collaborator Hans-Peter Lindstrøm as Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas.

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Re-edit

In popular music, a re-edit is an altered version of a recorded song created by repeating, reordering, or removing sections of the original recording - for example, making a chorus repeat several times in a row, or extending the length of a break section.

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Robin Thicke

Robin Thicke (born March 10, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Shep Pettibone

Shep Pettibone (b. July 10, 1959) is an American record producer, remixer, songwriter and club DJ, one of the most prolific of the 1980s.

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So Much Love to Give

"So Much Love to Give" is a 2002 single released by French house duo Together, consisting of Thomas Bangalter and DJ Falcon.

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The Juan MacLean

John MacLean, better known by the stage name of The Juan MacLean, is an American electronic musician.

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The Rapture (band)

The Rapture were a rock band from New York City, formed in 1998.

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The Shapeshifters

The Shapeshifters are an English house duo composed of Max Reich and Simon Marlin.

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The Weekend (Michael Gray song)

"The Weekend" is a song by British DJ and house music producer Michael Gray.

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Thomas Bangalter

Thomas Bangalter (born 3 January 1975) is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ, composer and film director, best known for being one half of the French house music duo Daft Punk, alongside Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

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Todd Terje

Terje Olsen (born 1981), better known as Todd Terje, is a Norwegian DJ, songwriter, and record producer.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Vaporwave

Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and an Internet <!--- Multiple sources refer to it as an Internet meme, please discuss on talk before changing ---> meme that emerged in the early 2010s.

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Waiting for a Star to Fall

"Waiting for a Star to Fall" is a song released by the pop duo Boy Meets Girl in 1988.

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White label

White label records are vinyl records with plain white labels attached.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu-disco

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