Italo Disco RFI

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_qmUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMsKWl1No0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbofGHQLoY4

all quality tracks, cheers!

it doesn't get much better than the chorus on this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_2qpJPGuM

i think this is the epitome of cheese. and also one of my faves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7bKx0-shPI

also jesus, this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCsM1Am7xOM

and this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhaAp26N5vc

http://www.italo-interviews.com/

also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFQfhjK9jiM

looove this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSt94LTl0kM&feature=related

this classic track sung by some asian guy. so bad it's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SusP8Y4xEdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAjZ_0jHsE

Love that track. Didn't know the whole "chopped/screwed" thing went back to the early 80s.

might as well mention "KKK" while we're at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0n7iRFpCp0&

there is so much good stuff in this thread!

Are there many italo/eurodisco songs with Steve Perry-esque vocals like Secret Service - "flash in the night"?

S/D: Dario Raimondi & Alvaro Ugolini

S: Fun Fun - "Happy Station", Advance - "Take Me To The Top"

not particularly a good song, just thought I would share this childhood classic:

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

About halfway through this thread -- and put this together:

http://open.spotify.com/user/124420673/playlist/1eT41Z2Pj1JYSj2xe5mUTA

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!

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.

check this out, great obscure italo from my country: https://soundcloud.com/cowboykillah/deddy-dores-demam-breakdance

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 - Mirage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQRboKNcy-I

Very nice tracks, especially like Sia Siou

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.

Just reissued on Dark Entries, and new to me at least:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0c28sFBE_A

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

^ The track is Helen 'Witch' in case the link goes down.

Big Ben Tribe is super classic, didn't know about the reissue.

Italooooo.

Funnily enough Dark Entries are rereleasing Helen Witch.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmxXIS2ot8w&feature=youtu.be

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.

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi73wlMaJOE

Blackways - New Life

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.

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

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 Classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyqbTz6l57w

and this, which is German but could be italo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlGFU3BsAAs

That Angela is great, never heard it before. Always preferred "Zanzibar" over "Witch" too.

Also good by Plastic Betrand: Stop Ou Encore

GAY CAT DISCO

apologies if this has been posted before, it's quite wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBI4v-F0jpY

sound quality is bad, sorry

that's "din don" by EXO

A Classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ZE3SaKjXI

https://clone.nl/item48884.html

that Expansives track is so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZvEp-fpjEY

I was just about to come here to post the Expansives track. So awesome

Might fit in better in a Cosmic Disco thread but these videos are lush:

http://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/italy-discos-abandoned/

I’ve been playing Check-Up Twins all day.

https://youtu.be/HAVzIZYge_k

Gucci (yes, that Gucci) and Frieze collaborate on an italo disco fantasy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp7pE0k5BBQ

"The film imagines a universe where mid ’80s New York runs riot for the latest italo releases and Campari fountains are installed by Presidential decree. It presents the genre in all its glamour and artifice, celebrating its anonymous stars who sang in borrowed English under invented American names."

whoah