Italo Disco RFI

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