Italo Disco RFI

there was a period of one week or so last month where i only downloaded italo tracks. it was wonderful.

I also like:

Fancy "Bolero" (veerrry cheesy, but fun)
Company B "Fascinated"
Fun fun "Colour my love" / "Baila bolero" (both pretty obvious, but I hadn't seen them mentioned).
La bionda "One for you, one for me"

The Casco track is brilliant! Couldn't believe it had been made back in the 80s...

Over here in the Netherlands, we had the Italo Dance Classics 1 to 4, which contained some of the tracks mentioned in this thread...

I'm listening to the 3 part Bootleg DJ Cafe mix by I-F right now...fantastic.

ok, here are 3 favorites of mine that always "get the party started" right, they all feature a mix of early 80s italo and electro-funk and all feature women saying motivational things about dancing:

Digital Emotion-Get Up, Do You Wanna Funk
D.F. & Pam-On the Beat
X Ray Connection-Get Ready(special freak mix)

note there is no question mark after the first title. Because with a beat like that, it's a rhetorical question.

Yeah - it's as good an introduction as any. Alec D(eRuggiero) knows his Italo.

there are many schools and sounds of italo, ranging from 77 to 87 or so, the hippest stuff being around 82/83, depending on yr taste. We'll see what Alec D's got!

NY's real italo luminary was Generic Costume's Kevin Carney, but he moved to LA, I think.

Cyber People - "Void vision"
Koto - "Dragon's legend", "Chinese revenge" and "Japanese war game"
Kano - "Another lover"
Ken Laszlo - "Hey hey guy" (which is really actually fucking twisted lyrically)
Radiorama - "Desire"
Scotch - "Delirio mind"

'84-'86 style. All bombast and drama. Like if you take all the strings-y bits and overblown 20-minute concept EPs from disco (that were never part of any trendy revival) and execute them with synthesisers and sci-fi, you get this type of italo.

The tasteful stuff is all well and good and fine for indie-rock revivalists but italo can also be like the happy hardcore of disco.

Video feat. Buckelew-Hey Boy (as opposed to Video's Hey Girl)
Taffy-I Love My Radio (midnight radio)
Fun Fun-Happy Station

if you're there, the track I was talking about a while back, I found it out, remember I mentioned about an italo track with a phone ringing in it and thought it was one of the great tracks ever:

ken lazslo, 'hey hey guy'

i LOVE "lancelot"! and i'm encouraged that the rest of her medieval stuff is great too :)

oh by the way, anyone who has ever posted to this thread needs to check out http://disco80.ru IMMEDIATELY - it's all in russian but if you feel around for awhile you'll find a link to full clips of italo disco music videos that are simly indescribable. i highly recommend the dschinghis khan performances and scotch's "mirage (la luna)" video as well (a melange of all the cheesiest possible '80s video techniques).

Charlie - Spacerwoman
Lectric Workers - Robot is Systematic

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!

download SYD mixes here

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