https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL756WTn7oU
― example (crüt), Friday, 27 January 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
looked this thread up cause livin' in your love came up on shuffle today and it outro is the greatest thing ever.
happy to find out a bunch of new shit had been posted since i last looked, do it again is great!
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, 6 February 2017 21:15 (seven years ago) link
the amount of italo i listen to is limited (which apparently means i only have like five hours of italo in my library), but here's one i like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWxEcNTmBU
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 6 February 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Did I ever post this? Majestic mid-tempo wonder that showed up again on my ipod this week. (Vocal version is nowhere as good.)
Nathaly Marion - Jennifer Planisphere (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-2lfUbS6Ug
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:50 (seven years ago) link
New one on me. Very nice instrumental! Vocal is a totally different arrangement isn't it.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
Another cool one:
Sahara Band - Habibi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG8L4omZSUI
The instrumental is actually Italo Disco Samba (!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCCPToDXdY
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 02:21 (seven years ago) link
Love that, and sounds like that is that a Casio RZ-1 as used by Steve Poindexter?
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 08:15 (seven years ago) link
Gill, do you have a good rip of that A-side?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 April 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
is that a Casio RZ-1?
Not a Casio RZ-1 (I used to have one of those). That machine didn't come out until about 1986 and this says 1983 on the label. It sounds to me like an Oberheim, either a DX or DMX.
― dubmill, Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Thanks Dubmill! Should have done some basic research first :)
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 7 April 2017 12:09 (seven years ago) link
How lucky are we that all this is on YouTube?
In the US maybe, half of these aren't available in the UK.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 7 April 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
agh i hate trying to learn anything from discogs, they know all about the sick cvlt italo jams but see if you can navigate the site to find out what they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfN6_cuvuo
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Saturday, 20 May 2017 00:13 (seven years ago) link
'Never Dreaming Man' is certainly up there with the best of the mangled English titles!
My current Italo crush, might be too late for some people, but it’s got so much energy, and who wouldn’t be charmed by the whoa-oo-oh-ooo bits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI-C4Oz4_1U
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 24 June 2017 08:52 (six years ago) link
It’s also on our most recent radio show: https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/04-june-17-mirage-classix/
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 24 June 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
nice one!
― skip, Saturday, 24 June 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
Making my way through the I Love Disco Diamonds series...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlqC4-Ih-So
― skip, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, love that one.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
Found by accident, but I love it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wVMC6Bytw
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
On I Love Disco Diamonds volume 16...
― skip, Monday, 5 February 2018 07:11 (six years ago) link
A big fave this one. Those synth animal roars are all time.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
been loving this one all summer - there's an english-language version as well (titled 'break up') but i like the italian better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2SlDrLYG8M
― donna rouge, Friday, 9 August 2019 04:08 (four years ago) link
Dang my ballot would be very different today.. here's a list of italo songs, these are all extremely solid
Aax Donnell & Eric Malone - Golden CageAl, Puccy & Claude - I Think... (Dance Version)Anthony's Games - Silent SmilesArt Fine - Dark SilenceBrand Image - Are You Loving?Brian Dalmini - Can You Tell MeClio - Faces (thank you poll)Firme D'Autore - All My LifeFockewulf 190 - Body HeatFred Ventura - The Years (Go By)Glam - More Than Ever (thank you poll)Image - Hot StuffKlapto - Queen Of The NightLama - Love On The RocksLame' - You've Got The NightLarry Paul Emmett - Evita (the contemporaneous Coco Bill cover is really good too)Loui$ - Pink Footpath (thank you poll)Lowell - No MatterMagic Sound - To HaldinMark Tower - You Aren't Fall In LoveMaskio - Dear Sir...Nemesy - 24 HoursPaul Paul - Burn On The FlamesRadio Movie - SearchRiccardo Cioni - Darkness InsideRiccardo Cioni - FogSensitive - Driving (OMG THIS IS THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME)Simon Bennett - My Sweet DreamThe Clean Hands Group - Shake It OnThe Creatures - Believe In YourselfTony Moore D.J. - TonightTorcida - Gaba Gaba (Let's Give It Up)Video Club - Lost TimeWell's Fargo - Ascoli Sei Grande
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
Good list! Lots to check out.
Here's one I'm enjoying atm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akFVJIwdIkw
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
Lame' - You've Got The Night
This is the only one I've heard! It is of course amazing. Will check out the rest
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
it's pretty amazing how deep you can go and keep finding great songs.
― skip, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
“the years go by” is truly amazing. songs about the wasting of one’s life tend to kind of stay in that “bummed out” mode throughout (citation needed), but Fred unleashes a mega power boost with a massive chorus of hope and inspiration. So good.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
damn, i am going to have to go through that list when i get the time. only ones i know of those are youtube megahit "faces" and nemesy - the nemesy album is pretty much the only good italo _lp_ i know of
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Sensitive’s “Driving” sounds to me, not an Italo expert, like the halfway point between Shannon’s “Give Me Tonight” and Noel’s “Silent Morning”, which chronologically it sooooort of is.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
so so good“golden cage” isn’t Italo actually, it’s like bumrocks style r&b or something
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
here, have a youtube playlist
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
ah, i missed that you posted a playlist and have been looking these up manually! but it also means i got to find this great video for "you aren't fall in love"... i'm amazed and so happy that so many of these performances have been saved - the video for "a dog in the night" by mr. master is also really good...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xFnGvn2cFE
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
Nice! I dont think I put any “video” videos on that playlist. I’d love to see a video for “silent smiles”, Antonio Biolcati’s vocal performance is so damn majestic and he looks like such a hunky dramatic swashbuckler on his discogs photo
― brimstead, Sunday, 20 October 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
The Ram Band version of “Silent Smiles” is amazing too. Not sure which came first.
― brimstead, Monday, 21 October 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the playlist, plenty of great ones I’d not heard before.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 8 November 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
Some new discoveries for me from the Lost Italo/Euro Disco series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4JC-HV0uSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucgMP3oZBak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGGGP-Dz0IE
― skip, Friday, 22 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
^^been *loving* that novecento track lately, that chorus is such a belter. was pleased to realize that it's the same vocalist who sings "the night" AND "call me mr. telephone"!
also very much obsessed with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5xbcnaE9H0
― donna rouge, Monday, 2 March 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
Not new to me, but they came up on shuffle, and I forgot how much they rock:
Gladiators - Quo Vadiz (fave lyric in the chorus: "We're the heroes / We are begging to fight")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsVnTqmDBec
Gag - P.T. Dance (pretty sure I've been caught singing "He's Italian, little baby / Why you dance like penguin tiger?")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldZw6wRxE0o
Re: Novecento - "Splendid Moment Together" is another great track with a wailer of a chorus
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link
Very nice choices, I don't think I had heard either of those YouTube's, although I love Gags Flyin' Bolero which is such an incredibly atmospheric track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnb_9YgMN0Y
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link
I feel the inspiration for “Flying Bolero” is the Kébekélektrik cover of “Bolero”—Gag’s version hints at the melody but never gives in. Cool A side though, yet another great one hit Italo wonder. I agree with the post above that this genre has seemingly no end of obscurities that turn out to be interesting*, especially if you factor in all the other strands of synth-dance that was happening around it. *high tolerance of cheese/kitsch often necessary
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
The Hysteric mix on last week's Beats In Space is full-on italo, many on the slower/dreamier side: https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/1044/
I definitely slept on the almost-balearic vibes of M Like Moon – Sunlight, what a great track. Feels like I've heard it before in some other context, but can't place it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpj7W5MgsoU
Also liked the slow mix of Diavolo and Fantasy's "Let’s Go For It"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkA89zwAUE
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
Also, I do like the 2 new Ryan Paris/Sally Shapiro tracks (posted on the SS thread)
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
I have always wanted to try my own mix rather than just stringing together tracks on a CD and finally got around to making one... you gain some new respect for DJs who do this kind of thing live!
On soundcloud for the time being: https://soundcloud.com/user-429906735/babys-first-italo-mix
― skip, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
sounds good so far!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Nice work Skip. Agree with you about mixing italo live with the more variable structures (and tones). After initially learning DJing with (mostly) very linear house and techno tracks, learning to DJ earlier genres like italo were songs are valued as much as danceability, it definitely upped my DJ game. As a DJ who does not enjoy pre-preparing my set, my ability to think on my feet in the mix improved a lot.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 09:26 (three years ago) link
Man I wish I could dance to these tracks in a club again… maybe next year…
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
The lyrics for Attack - Can’t Stop are hilariously clumsy. I love it.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 10:43 (three years ago) link
Thanks Chew. One more, which is going to be all for now because Soundcloud has a 180 minute limit ;)
https://soundcloud.com/user-429906735/slow-motion-italo-discomix
― skip, Monday, 6 July 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
Now that I'm listening to one of the mixes on soundcloud it sounds like garbage because of the bitrate... feel free to message if you want the full bitrate file.
― skip, Monday, 6 July 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
because I'm in a Modern Talking state of mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm12K2IVow4Modern Talking • Do You Wanna
a lot can be (and has been) said about their ESL lyrics, but I thinkI hear your heartbeat, heartbeat, heartbeatBegging me for moreOh, I need to hear that questionLike a dancer needs the flooris pretty great
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
A new favorite for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeVCFdcNFw4
― skip, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link