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REVIVE! I just got a hold of (thru EBAY) a 3 hr. DVD-R comp of Italo videos
and performances that melted my brain after watching about 1/2 hour.
Mostly the poppier stuff, like Fun Fun/Magazine 60/My Mine/Den Harrow, but
so so incredible.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

feel free to bring me a copy!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

You got a DVd burner, senor?

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

yes I do.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

can anyone else get these videos to work? because i cant :(

― minna (minna), Saturday, 27 August 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

― PaulB, Saturday, 27 August 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Try this torrent for low risk Italo electro...

― js (honestengine), Saturday, 27 August 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

OK, they're very obvious, but I can't see them mentioned anywhere on the thread, and they ARE stupendous:

Charlie - Spacerwoman
Lectric Workers - Robot is Systematic

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Saturday, 27 August 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Nice to see this thread coming back! Getting more and more of the stuff posted above.

My favo track at the mo is: Torrevado "Living in the shuttle"
The guy's English is just hysterical!

LIIIIVIIIING IN DA SHAAAATLLE!

Radiorama are also great for poor English. Check their "Aliens". They make it sound like "AHHHHLIENS".

also, I got a video of this Italo-piss take:

Zlad! "Elektronik supersonik"

I don't know who this guy really is, but it's fucking brilliant!

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Sunday, 28 August 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

I just got this gem in from Amazon. I can't even get to the second disc cause the first one is so good. "Don't Wake Me Up" by J.D. Jaber may be my favorite Italo track of all time for this week.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know anything about this Kano feller? I listened to "Ikeya Seki" on repeat for about two weeks last month.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

was mr flagio's "take a chance" bootlegged or reissued or compiled on vinyl anywhere? looking for a copy, & it seems to be pretty thin on the ground for a really famous track . . .

― etc, Thursday, 16 March 2006 06:29 (twenty years ago)

fun fun "gimme somne loving"
sorry steve winwood but i prefer this hi-nrg cover.

― salerno, Thursday, 16 March 2006 06:43 (twenty years ago)

Take a Chance was reissued probably a few times on ZYX "italo disco classics" 12"s, at least, that's how I got it, the original is more rare. If you can't find one of those, I'm sure it'll be bootlegged in a week or two, probably as some shitty edit where they remove all the vocals, compress everything and press it really shittily.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 March 2006 07:24 (twenty years ago)

"Mastered directly from the MP3!"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 16 March 2006 07:28 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

what's the deal with Discomanic anyway - another 'fools you into thinking it was really made in 1982' thing, but surely one of the better ones (tho apparently 'Jupiter's Delight' is even better)? i think it's right up there with 'Passion' and 'Heat You Up (Melt You Down)', but there is a lot of stuff mentioned on this thread i still have not heard either.

download SYD mixes here

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Viewlexx is I-F's label, he and his Cybernetic Broadcasting System are probably the epicenter of the nu-italo revival. Quality stuff.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Here's tracklist to a mix I made recently of some favorites:
"I Don't Believe" by Carol Kane
"True Faith" by New Order
"Love In Your Eyes" by Humphrey Robertson
"Love Sign" by Gatsby
"Don't Lose Your Heart Tonight" by Joy Peters
"Call My Name" by Lisa G.
"Don't Cry Tonight" by Savage
"Just A Story" by Mike Rogers
"Hold Me Tight" by Katy Gray
"The Night" by Valerie Dore
"I'll Be By Your Side" by Sally Shapiro

― jared karnoval (leopoldo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't Cry Tonight" by Savage - ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG!

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

hunt these down, you will not be disappointed

Playboy by Venise
No More Visions by Sly and Hunter

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

here are four really fun, introductory type mixes available for download. the first three are by my DJ partner and friend Robert Robot Hustle! the other is from some German label's website. either way, they are pretty decent.

http://www.badbotsattack.com/Disco%20Crush%20Part%201.mp3

http://www.badbotsattack.com/Disco%20Crush%20Part%202.mp3

http://www.badbotsattack.com/bailando.mp3

other tracks of the moment:

Roni Griffith - "Spys"
Vivian Vee - "Give Me a Break" (Simonetti production!)
Rofo - "Flashlight on a Disco Night"
Gazebo - "Midnight Cocktail"
Ryan Paris - "Dolce Vita"

http://www.in-stadtmagazine.de/ec-mixes/interfunk-madinitaly.mp3

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.badbotsattack.com/Disco%20Crush%20Part%201.mp3

http://www.badbotsattack.com/Disco%20Crush%20Part%202.mp3

http://www.badbotsattack.com/bailando.mp3

other tracks of the moment:

Roni Griffith - "Spys" (1st Bobby Orlando production? the bit from "Passion" by the Flirts just keeps trotting in throughout the entire fucking record, haha)

Vivian Vee - "Give Me a Break" (Simonetti production!)

Rofo - "Flashlight on a Disco Night"

Gazebo - "Midnight Cocktail"

Ryan Paris - "Dolce Vita"

http://www.in-stadtmagazine.de/ec-mixes/interfunk-madinitaly.mp3

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Flashlight on a Disco Night is a personal fave of mine, though I only have it on a Studio 57 comp.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i love that track. the other day i was at Open Mind Records (fantastic San Francisco spot), and they had a big pile of used stuff. this was in there ... excellent condition. i think it was $4-5. also, i heard a RUMOR that the De Wulf who produced this was the same one involved with Music Man Records for his famous B-Sides series. although that makes no sense to me.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

lovin' "donna rouge" by fake at the moment

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

I like that for the guitars. Really "rocking"!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

cameron, does open mind have a decent old disco type selection? i stopped going there for a really long time and just by chance went in there recently and found a record i've been looking for for years (amina claudine myers - song for mother e).

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

i usually go to streetlight in the castro for old super gay disco 12"s. i wish they had listening stations.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Alexander Robotnick! "Dance Boy Dance" is really good, among others.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I just found it, but http://www.italo-disco.net/ has some nice free songs for download on the front page.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

slsk

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Torrents for two 44-track volumes of vintage Italo Disco are up at Mininova now, and a lot of the names in this thread are represented.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

this SYD 'Just Like Music' vol 1 mix is so sweet.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Italo disco MIDI is cracking me up right now.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

love "Call Me Mr Telephone" but i tend to put stuff like this in my 'Soul Weekender' folder heh

― blueski, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

just discovered these guys

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Proxyon

ok tunes but GREAT sleeve art

― winston, Friday, 28 March 2008 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

den harrow's "broken radio" is fantastic (and a useful educational record as well)

― impudent harlot, Friday, 28 March 2008 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i'm hearing some italo disco stuff for the first time, i love it. like regular disco, but cheesier!

but as a (not really all that clued in) dj, i must know - is this stuff still cool, or is it's trendyness a thing of the past? seems like i still hear ilm'ers people namedropping the whole italo thing on other threads, but then i can't help but notice no one's updated this thread in a while...

― messiahwannabe, Monday, 18 May 2009 07:35 (seventeen years ago)

Italo is like electro in that it'll always be cool.

― Tuomas, Monday, 18 May 2009 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

that's what i thought - hard to see how this stuff could ever not be cool!

btw thanks for answering my dumb question :)

― messiahwannabe, Monday, 18 May 2009 09:05 (seventeen years ago)

Not strictly all italo, but Intergalactic Gary is an awesome DJ and well worth checking out.

This is a great set he played at the Bleep43 party in London in Feb:

http://www.bleep43recordings.com/mixes/IGBleepFeb09.mp3

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 18 May 2009 09:19 (seventeen years ago)

Italo covers so much more stuff than people realize that writing it off is like saying "disco isn't cool anymore", which some people do anyway, but just because slavishly reviving chicago house circa 86 is cooler now, even though the debt chicago house circa 86 pays to Italo is great.

― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2009 12:57 (seventeen years ago)

I was listening to righeira all weekend

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 18 May 2009 13:04 (seventeen years ago)

Are you going to the beach?

― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

no—i dont have any money

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

http://discohorror.blogspot.com/2009/05/vamos-la-playa-hater.html

^^^ featuring an a++++ dad joke fyi

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

if i do say so myself

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

<3 that blog post even if it meant i had to read a blog

i still like chopin btw

― Lamp, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

max, i heart you. i have both the righeira and Miami's 12"s of that song

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, 18 May 2009 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

also, how come those dudes can't dance on the beat together?

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, 18 May 2009 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

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