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
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