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Italo disco

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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. [1]

89 relations: Afro/Cosmic music, Bad Boys Blue, Baltimora, Boys (Summertime Love), C. C. Catch, Call Me (Spagna song), Cerrone, Devo, Didier Marouani, Dirty Talk (Klein + M.B.O. song), Disco, Disco polo, Discofox, Discoring, Dolce Vita (song), Drum machine, Electroclash, Electronic dance music, Electronic music, Electronic rock, English language, Erasure, Euro disco, Eurobeat, Eurodance, Fancy (singer), Freestyle music, Gary Numan, Giorgio Moroder, Give Me Up, Hi-NRG, Hipnosis (Italian band), House music, Internet radio, Italian popular music, Italo dance, Italo house, Italy, Joy (Austrian band), Klein + M.B.O., Koto (band), Kraftwerk, Laserdance, Laura Branigan, Lian Ross, Lime (band), List of Euro disco artists, List of Italo disco artists and songs, Living on Video, Megamix, ..., Mike Mareen, Modern Talking, New Order (band), New wave music, Ogg, Outer space, Para Para, Patrick Cowley, Paul Parker (singer), Pet Shop Boys, Phonograph record, Pop music, Post-disco, ProSieben, Proxyon, Quebec, RAI, Record label, Rete 4, Robot, Rossana Casale, Ryan Paris, Sabrina Salerno, San Francisco, Silent Circle, Space disco, Spagna, Spanish language, Sylvester (singer), Synth-pop, Synthesizer, Tarzan Boy, Televisión Española, Telex (band), The Twins (group), Trans-X, Vocoder, Yellow Magic Orchestra, ZYX Music. Expand index (39 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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Bad Boys Blue

Bad Boys Blue are a multinational pop group that was formed in Cologne, Germany.

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Baltimora

Baltimora was an Italian music project active in the 1980s.

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Boys (Summertime Love)

"Boys (Summertime Love)" is a song recorded by Italian singer Sabrina.

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C. C. Catch

Caroline Catherine Müller (born 31 July 1964), known professionally as C. C. Catch, is a Dutch-born German pop singer, best known for her collaboration with Dieter Bohlen in the 1980s.

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Call Me (Spagna song)

"Call Me" is a 1987 song recorded by the Italian singer Spagna.

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Cerrone

Marc Cerrone (born 24 May 1952) is a French disco drummer, composer, record producer and creator of major concert shows.

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Devo

Devo (originally) is an American rock band from Akron, Ohio formed in 1973.

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Didier Marouani

Didier Marouani (born 14 July 1953 in Monaco) is a French composer and musician.

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Dirty Talk (Klein + M.B.O. song)

"Dirty Talk" is a song by Klein + M.B.O. released as the first single from their debut studio album First.

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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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Disco polo

Disco polo is a genre of popular dance music, created in Poland in the late 1980s, initially known as sidewalk musicAnna Kowalczyk „Wiedza i Życie”.

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Discofox

Discofox or disco fox is a social partner dance which evolved in Europe in the mid-1970s as a rediscovery of the dance hold in the improvisational disco dance scene dominated by solo dancing, approximately at the same time when the hustle emerged in the United States.

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Discoring

Discoring was a music show broadcast by Rai 1 from 1977 to 1989, created by Gianni Boncompagni, aired mainly on Sunday.

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Dolce Vita (song)

"Dolce Vita" is a song by Italian musician Ryan Paris, released as a single in 1983.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.

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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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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronic rock

Electronic rock is a broad music genre that involves a combination of rock music and electronic music, featuring instruments typically found within both genres.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Erasure

Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of singer and songwriter Andy Bell and songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke.

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Euro disco

Euro disco (or Eurodisco) is the variety of European forms of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the later 1970s; incorporating elements of pop, new wave and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere.

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Eurobeat

Eurobeat is either a form of the British dance-pop variant of Eurodisco, or Hi-NRG-driven Italo disco music.

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Eurodance

Eurodance (sometimes known as Euro-NRG or Euro) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe.

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Fancy (singer)

Fancy (real name Manfred Alois Segieth) is a German Italo disco singer who was popular in the mid to late 1980s.

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Freestyle music

Freestyle is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the United States in the 1980s.

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.

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Giorgio Moroder

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer.

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Give Me Up

"Give Me Up" is a song by Italian singer Michael Fortunati released as a single in 1986.

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Hi-NRG

Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Hipnosis (Italian band)

Hipnosis (spelt "Hypnosis" for releases outside of Italy), were an Italian Italo disco group, best remembered for their cover of Vangelis' track "Pulstar", which went Top 10 in Germany and Top 20 in Switzerland in 1983.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Internet radio

Internet radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, IP radio, online radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet.

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Italian popular music

The expression Italian popular music refers to the musical output which is not usually considered academic or Classical music but rather have its roots in the popular traditions, and it may be defined in two ways: it can either be defined in terms of the current geographical location of the Italian Republic with the exceptions of the Germanic South Tyrol and the eastern portion of Friuli Venezia Giulia; alternatively it can be defined as the music produced by all those people who consider themselves as Italians and openly or implicitly refer to this belief.

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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 house

Italo house (often simply referred to as "Italian" or "Italian House" in the UK) is a form of house music originating in Italy.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Joy (Austrian band)

Joy is an Austrian pop band, best known for the hits "Touch by Touch" and "Valerie".

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Klein + M.B.O.

Klein + M.B.O. were an Italian Italo disco musical group formed by producers, songwriters and arrangers Mario Boncaldo (from Italy) and Tony Carrasco (from United States).

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Koto (band)

Koto is an Italian synthpop group that originally consisted of Anfrando Maiola and Stefano Cundari, later with the Dutch composer Michiel van der Kuy.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Laserdance

Laserdance is a Dutch italo disco studio project that had consisting of musicians Erik van Vliet and Michiel van der Kuy.

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Laura Branigan

Laura Ann Branigan (July 3, 1952 – August 26, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Lian Ross

Lian Ross, (born Josephine Hiebel; December 8, 1962) is a German Hi-NRG/Euro disco singer.

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Lime (band)

Lime was a Canadian synth music outfit from Montreal, Quebec.

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List of Euro disco artists

This is a list of Euro disco artists and their popular songs.

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List of Italo disco artists and songs

The following is a list of Italo disco artists and songs, divided in two sections.

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Living on Video

"Living on Video" is a song by Canadian synthpop band Trans-X written and published in 1982, but not released as a single until 1983 by Polydor Records, and re-released in 1984.

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Megamix

A megamix is a medley remix containing multiple songs in rapid succession.

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Mike Mareen

Mike Mareen is a German musician, who was born in post-war West Berlin, West Germany as Uwe-Michael Wischhoff, and grew up in Lüneburg.

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Modern Talking

Modern Talking was a German duo consisting of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen.

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New Order (band)

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Outer space

Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.

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Para Para

is a synchronized dance that originated in Japan.

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Patrick Cowley

Patrick Joseph Cowley (October 19, 1950 - November 12, 1982) was an American disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist.

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Paul Parker (singer)

Paul Parker (born in San Francisco, California) is an American Hi-NRG and dance singer.

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Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Post-disco

Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa late 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with an unprecedented backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in the late 1980s.

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ProSieben

ProSieben (sieben is German for seven) is a commercial television station in Germany.

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Proxyon

Proxyon is a Dutch synthpop project founded by Michiel van der Kuy (who also worked in similar synthdance projects as Laserdance, Koto, Rygar and Area 51).

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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RAI

RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. (commercially styled Rai; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The RAI operates many DVB and Sat television channels and radio stations, broadcasting via digital terrestrial transmission (15 television and 7 radio channels nationwide) and from several satellite platforms. It is the biggest television broadcaster in Italy and competes with Mediaset, and other minor television and radio networks. The RAI has a relatively high television audience share of 33.8%. RAI broadcasts are also received in neighboring countries, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Slovenia, Vatican City, Switzerland, and Tunisia, and elsewhere on cable and satellite. Sometimes Rai 1 was received even further in Europe via Sporadic E until the digital switch off in July 2012. Half of the RAI's revenues come from broadcast receiving licence fees, the rest from the sale of advertising time Retrieved on 2007-10-10 Italian Ministry of Communications, Retrieved on 2007-10-10. In 1950, the RAI became one of the 23 founding broadcasting organizations of the European Broadcasting Union.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Rete 4

Rete 4 is an Italian television station belonging to the Mediaset network.

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Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer— capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

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Rossana Casale

Rossana Casale (born July 21, 1959) is an Italian singer.

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Ryan Paris

Ryan Paris, born Fabio Roscioli (March 12, 1953) is an Italian musician and actor who gained international popularity in 1983 for the worldwide hit single "Dolce Vita", written and produced by Pierluigi Giombini.

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Sabrina Salerno

Sabrina Salerno, also known in her singing career as Sabrina, is an Italian singer, songwriter, record producer, glamour model, actress and television presenter.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Silent Circle

Silent Circle is a German Eurodisco band that was formed in 1985.

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Space disco

Space disco is the fusion of disco music with futuristic themes, sounds and visuals, a genre that became popular in the late 1970s.

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Spagna

Spagna (born Ivana Spagna, 16 December 1954, Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona, Italy) is an Italian singer and songwriter.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Sylvester (singer)

Sylvester James Jr. (September 6, 1947December 16, 1988), who used the stage name of Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Tarzan Boy

"Tarzan Boy" is the debut single by Italian-based act Baltimora.

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Televisión Española

Televisión Española (acronym TVE, on lowercase letters: tve, in English "Spanish Television") is the national state-owned public-service television broadcaster in Spain.

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Telex (band)

Telex was a Belgian synthpop group formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "making something really European, different from rock, without guitar — and the idea was electronic music".

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The Twins (group)

The Twins are a German synthpop and new wave duo.

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Trans-X

Trans-X is a Canadian 1980s synth band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice encoder) is a category of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, voice transformation, etc.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).

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ZYX Music

ZYX Music GmbH & Co.

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Disco italo, Italian disco, Italo Disco, Italo-Disco, Italo-disco, Italodisco.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_disco

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