― nick.K (nick.K), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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...
― Rudolf (Rudolf), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― nick.K (nick.K), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
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 FunkD.F. & Pam-On the BeatX 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.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah - it's as good an introduction as any. Alec D(eRuggiero) knows his Italo.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 07:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― snowballing, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― steve w, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Video feat. Buckelew-Hey Boy (as opposed to Video's Hey Girl)Taffy-I Love My Radio (midnight radio)Fun Fun-Happy Station
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
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― robin (robin), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rudolf (Rudolf), Thursday, 29 April 2004 07:02 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― f*lippo, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
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'
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 26 December 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link
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).
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 27 December 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― minna (minna), Saturday, 27 August 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― PaulB, Saturday, 27 August 2005 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Saturday, 27 August 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Charlie - SpacerwomanLectric Workers - Robot is Systematic
― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Saturday, 27 August 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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― salerno, Thursday, 16 March 2006 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 March 2006 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 16 March 2006 07:28 (eighteen years ago) link
download SYD mixes here
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― jared karnoval (leopoldo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:35 (seventeen 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
GAY CAT DISCO
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Sunday, 22 January 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
apologies if this has been posted before, it's quite wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBI4v-F0jpY
sound quality is bad, sorry
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 03:39 (six years ago) link
that's "din don" by EXO
A Classic!
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ZE3SaKjXI
https://clone.nl/item48884.html
― oder doch?, Sunday, 7 January 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link
that Expansives track is so great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZvEp-fpjEY
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Sunday, 7 January 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
I was just about to come here to post the Expansives track. So awesome
― skip, Monday, 30 April 2018 06:20 (five years ago) link
Might fit in better in a Cosmic Disco thread but these videos are lush:
http://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/italy-discos-abandoned/
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
I’ve been playing Check-Up Twins all day.
https://youtu.be/HAVzIZYge_k
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 29 July 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
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."
― skip, Monday, 14 September 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
whoah
― dan selzer, Monday, 14 September 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link