80s Italo Disco POX

crutis i will handle costume design + hair stylin if you write all the songs

5. Rockets - "On the Road Again"

this is so hilariously good!

"ti sento" by matia bazar is ruling universe right now

funny they'd include Passion by the Flirts considering their historical problems with Bobby O.

No wonder the PSB love "Passion". It sounds exactly like "In The Night".

it's not much of a wonder, Bobby O produced the original version of West End Girls, but they had a falling out.

http://www.icomefromreykjavik.com/kontrapunkt/ !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5lm78X8QM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDV_dBYp4h0

i was just banging 'take a chance' this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXvHL1wR5Ys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3vTmHqXEMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nAL-vIq5I&feature=related

not italian but wayy hot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG91dV9NZDM

italo act names were some of the best names imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_688XsfAniw

Yukihiro Takanawa - Dragon Lady
Roni Griffith and Bobby O - Desire
Bobby Orlando - These Lies
Kano - She's a Star
Savage - A Love Again
The Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord (Not 80's but it's still Italo gold)
Debbie Harry - Rush Rush
Bobby Orlando - German Girl
Digital Emotion- Go Go Yellow Screen
Calling All Boys - The Flirts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN8_m9349uo

biiiiiiiiiiiiiig

GOSMGR1 (1 month ago) 0 Reply | Spam
Reminds me of Heroes in Manchester-a proper nightclub,and a proper dance record!

PROPER

Geir in Playlist form:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D7B022705C74D8EE

And I did that so I could hear some of this stuff in a row...

And daavid's:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=74C9865C696E43F7

And while we're at it, big ups to K.O.T.O's "The Visitors"...

Hey thx Naive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn0o88MMfJI

<3

i could listen to :53-1:08 over & over *goes to make rmx*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJEEsUmsfQo

My Mine - Hypnotic Tango
Kano - Super Extra Sexy Sign
Tulio de Piscopo - Stop Bajon
Charlie - Spacer Woman
Fun Fun - Happy Station
Silver Pozzoli - Around My Dream
Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita
Ivan - Fotonovela
Alexander Robotnick - Dance Boy Dance
Doctor's Cat - Feel the Drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19X-g5jHRzI

I just got this one... I think it's from Canada and not Italy, but it certainly sounds like Italo. And holy shit, what a tune! This is probably the best sci-fi disco tune I've ever heard, alongside Cerrone's "Supernature".

In fact it seems there were several Canadian disco artists in the late 70s/early 80s with an Italo-like sound: Kebekelektrik, Gino Soccio, Kat Mandu, Lime, The Immortals, etc. Does anyone know if there was some kind of a Italo-influenced scene in Canada back then?

The mid-to-late 80s Canadian synthpop scene was kind of Italo influenced too, no? I mean, Men Without Hats, Kon Kan, Trans-X etc.

http://magicwavesradio.blogspot.com/2008/08/disco-canada.html

i didn't realize claudja barry was from canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JajtJ3KuuQ

Thanks for the blog link, Jaxon, I'd been wondering about the Canadian disco scene, so that was interesting read.

That Plustwo track above is definitely my jam of the week.

where can a man download shit tons of this stuff?

download the CBS top 100 - it's easy to find

thank you! will get on that

me too!

also found this while clicking around on youtube, a great track and apparently produced by Daniel Bangalter father of one Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk Fame. (french not italian obviouisly)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9lq_sZnsGM

wow is that a bra made out of rollerskates?

man the 1970s had so much to offer

amateurist i saw drive and i think these are relevant to your interests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0v_jTHHFKU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010pIwbjjPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nAL-vIq5I

still waiting for output from the crutis/max neo-italo duo

this monster jam is so perfect for a saturday night... (nemesy - 24 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KvaRnX5tg0

is Italo one of those things that just didn't happen in the U.S.? Or did it happen and I just missed it?

I've never heard any of these songs. I've never even heard of any of the performers (except Moroder)

exactly one italo song happened in the us - "tarzan boy". (and italo wasn't really ever about the performers, so it's not terribly meaningful that you wouldn't have heard of them - i think it was mr. master where the producer just found some random guy on a beach and got him to sing the song.)

Den Harrow's "Broken Radio" has amazing lyrics and incessant hooks throughout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqxXcWVnztA

"self control" by laura branigan is an 'italo' cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3zP3ziq738

xpost to lee

The early Madonna singles like Holiday and Intro the Groove are essentially Italo too.

Italo artists were never really promoted abroad, the main driver for Italo success was through holidaymakers bringing the occasional Italian summer hit home, but the vast majority of ‘real’ Italo hits were a local thing only.

At the time, you mostly had local artists in each market emulating the style (Modern Talking in Germany, Pet Shop Boys in UK, the Sabadell Sound in Spain, Madonna in the US, etc) rather than the actual Italo artists being successful. The Italo rediscovery post-2000 did more for Italian artists than the original wave ever did, really.

Italo artists were never really promoted abroad, the main driver for Italo success was through holidaymakers bringing the occasional Italian summer hit home, but the vast majority of ‘real’ Italo hits were a local thing only.

Yeah this has been my understanding too. Along with 'Tarzan Boy' I think the only other one that made any impact on the UK charts was 'Dolce Vita' - I wonder why these crossed over and so many others didn't (I guess timing must be part of it).

I was thinking about this recently after watching some of those 'Top of the Pops 198x' programmes - on one episode Kid Jensen talked about how they'd occasionally make these half-hearted attempts at covering international charts which never really took off.