I know they've been around for a while but I need to rep for the two You Can Trust A Man With A Moustache EP's. If only because nobody on ILM has mentioned them.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 1 November 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
just glad to see someone repping for "Ground Control" ...heavy stuff indeed!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 2 November 2009 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
yo, i repped for ground control on my site back on 10.07.07
― jaxon, Monday, 2 November 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that does't really mean much, just joining in on the repping.
― jaxon, Monday, 2 November 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost: listened to 2 overfitted disco mix and I could barely finish it. it's the mixing.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 2 November 2009 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
How do you mean? It's def. smoother than the mixing on, say, Mixed Up in the Hague Vol. 1 (sorry, Dan) -- and that's legit.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
well, tracks seem to jump suddenly onto each other. it maybe doesn't really matter if the flow is good, but too bad it's not. it's only my opinion of course.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 2 November 2009 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the mixing on Mixed Up in the Hague is fine...the flow is awesome, and it's not legit!
― dan selzer, Monday, 2 November 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
neo-italo worth a spin
http://www.myspace.com/eleganteorchestra
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Not too bad, but doesn't sound like Italo to me.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIev-sdxORM
this counts right?
i first heard it on optimo's how to kill the dj... RIP
― jerk orbison (another al3x), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this
Is this the right thread for it?
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I've come to the conclusion that Italo is the best music for writing code to - most music distracts me when I'm trying to concentrate but something about Italo puts me in just the right headspace to make stupid nodding/dancing movements at my desk while still producing quality work. Some current office favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRsIN9_qmUUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMsKWl1No0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbofGHQLoY4
― seandalai, Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
all quality tracks, cheers!
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
it doesn't get much better than the chorus on this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_2qpJPGuM
― lao gan ma (r1o natsume), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this is the epitome of cheese. and also one of my faves:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7bKx0-shPI
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
also jesus, this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCsM1Am7xOM
and this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhaAp26N5vc
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.italo-interviews.com/
also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFQfhjK9jiM
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Friday, 1 October 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
looove this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSt94LTl0kM&feature=related
― daavid, Friday, 1 October 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
this classic track sung by some asian guy. so bad it's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SusP8Y4xEdM
― Death Cab for Kuti (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAjZ_0jHsE
― Spectrum, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Love that track. Didn't know the whole "chopped/screwed" thing went back to the early 80s.
― Spectrum, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
might as well mention "KKK" while we're at it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0n7iRFpCp0&
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
there is so much good stuff in this thread!
― skip, Friday, 17 December 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there many italo/eurodisco songs with Steve Perry-esque vocals like Secret Service - "flash in the night"?
― deaths and oil painting graphics (blank), Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
S/D: Dario Raimondi & Alvaro Ugolini
S: Fun Fun - "Happy Station", Advance - "Take Me To The Top"
― deaths and oil painting graphics (blank), Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
not particularly a good song, just thought I would share this childhood classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rehaLthGyVY
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
About halfway through this thread -- and put this together:
http://open.spotify.com/user/124420673/playlist/1eT41Z2Pj1JYSj2xe5mUTA
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 29 December 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
I just started paging through this thread and then fast-forwarded to the end in hopes that the last post would be a Spotify samaritan. Hooray!
― mick signals, Saturday, 29 December 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks. It's part Samaritan -- and part just a really good way to learn a genre and artist. I did the same w King Tubby and Lindstrom and Prins, using awesome ILM threads to cut thru the chaff. In the case of King Tubby, I think I basically saved myself about a decade of fruitless record buying and god knows how much money -- getting shit comps on dodgy labels just so I could acquire a single track.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 29 December 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
check this out, great obscure italo from my country: https://soundcloud.com/cowboykillah/deddy-dores-demam-breakdance
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 6 September 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Diux - Comet (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ulvk8nLXJs
I thought I had heard all the known Italo classics, I was wrong. Surprised this tracks never turned up on a CBS Top 100 (which, according to IFM, will be happening again this year on Christmas.)
A couple of other new discoveries hitting me hard:
Esavu - Sia Siou (Breakin' Up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qttJkmRnd5o
Louise Freeman - Miragehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQRboKNcy-I
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 25 November 2013 04:01 (ten years ago) link
Very nice tracks, especially like Sia Siou
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 9 January 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
just picked up this today for a coin :
http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Hell-Hellboys-Italo-Megamix-By-DJ-Hell/master/71175
seems to have a lot of connection to many suggestions in this thread.
― mark e, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
Just reissued on Dark Entries, and new to me at least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0c28sFBE_A
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
That was something on my never-gonna-happen Italo wantlist, nice to have it on its way.
I did splash out a ridiculous - for me - amount on a bootleg of the Victrola track they have just reissued too, but glad to see it get a proper release, and the bootleg has some other great tracks on it too.
Quite interested in what else they will be re-releasing in this series.
Has anyone posted this one here yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3IfGC_zTvU
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:43 (ten years ago) link
^ The track is Helen 'Witch' in case the link goes down.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
Big Ben Tribe is super classic, didn't know about the reissue.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
Italooooo.
Funnily enough Dark Entries are rereleasing Helen Witch.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
This afternoon I'm checking out these Italo videos - mainly ordinary-looking folk lip-synching on some TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mceq3eUWh7Y&list=PLAA551ED1687D4093
Excellent compendium of retro hair and fashion and being Italy, there are no apologies for excessive hair mousse!
For an Italian-American, it's like a dream journey to some super-Italian shamelessly frothy world.
― SCOTTISH PEOPLE ONLY (I M Losted), Friday, 23 January 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmxXIS2ot8w&feature=youtu.be
― the late great, Friday, 13 March 2015 07:54 (nine years ago) link
i haven't found a lot of decent "subreddit" about music and this is one of em https://www.reddit.com/r/italodisco it's active but not too much and most of the recommendations are interesting /new to me , like this one
https://youtu.be/XP-GSfC1ePc
also, man, these guys in general... they had a knack to find off beat names for their act.
― Sébastien, Monday, 29 August 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
To my surprise I made some new Italo discoveries. I wrongly thought I exhausted this genre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HTzbUku42Q
RUINS - Fire!
― larry appleton, Saturday, 21 January 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi73wlMaJOE
Blackways - New Life
― larry appleton, Saturday, 21 January 2017 02:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A72wR9g8-Hs
Diana Est - Tenax
I love the instrumentals to Diana Est's Tenax and Le Louvre. pretty classic.
Music For Us by Blackway also rocks.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 21 January 2017 02:42 (seven years ago) link
I'll have to check out the instrumentals. Here's another good one, it's French, but close enough to my American sensibilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=866Jzm6bahM
― larry appleton, Saturday, 21 January 2017 06:08 (seven years ago) link
my "latest" finds: a balearic italo masterpiece, much better than "Witch"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfFcvlqRrHQ
and this cover of the Jethro Tull Classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyqbTz6l57w
― M.C., Saturday, 21 January 2017 09:42 (seven years ago) link
and this, which is German but could be italohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlGFU3BsAAs
― M.C., Saturday, 21 January 2017 09:54 (seven years ago) link
That Angela is great, never heard it before. Always preferred "Zanzibar" over "Witch" too.
Also good by Plastic Betrand: Stop Ou Encore
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 21 January 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link