The mixeshereare possibly my absolute favorite Italo mixes. Enjoy!
― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 28 June 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry about the crowded text in that link there.
thanks :)
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.robotsforrobots.net/
― Enter nothing in the dialog and click 'OK' (Display Name), Monday, 29 June 2009 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
any specific mixes to recommend from those websites?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 29 June 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Have a listen to the Intergalactic Gary mix I posted upthreada if you haven't already.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 29 June 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
holy crap, almost 0,5 GB! i hope it's worth it.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 29 June 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Completely.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 29 June 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i am currently obsessed with Ris- Love-N-Music . way too fucking good.
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Friday, 17 July 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! loved when bus station john dropped it last week (like two minutes before i left)
― bimble b. unlimited (donna rouge), Friday, 17 July 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
esp. the "my boyfriend's a music jock" line
― bimble b. unlimited (donna rouge), Friday, 17 July 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
o, you're in SF too?
― bong hitzvah (jaxon), Friday, 17 July 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
oakland, til the end of august
― bimble b. unlimited (donna rouge), Friday, 17 July 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
w/ frequent trips to SF i'm sure
OH! hey, what's the deal with drinks, j03? might be tied up tonight...
but i'm going to be in oakland on Sunday. great reading at 21 Grand...
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Friday, 17 July 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
ah I freak out anytime I hear "Love and Music." There was some other italo-related thread somewhere where people went on about it a bit. I need a copy of that record. Such a magical chord progression!
― Chinavision (altair nouveau), Friday, 17 July 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll play it tonight in NYC.
― dan selzer, Friday, 17 July 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
well I'll try to make it but we'll see...
― Chinavision (altair nouveau), Friday, 17 July 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Digging into this stuff this weekend (ok, I'm about a decade late into Italo) -- but this Overfitted Disco mix is pretty great:
http://misteritalo.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-spaced-out-disco-mix-from-robot.htmlMilkways Galactic reaction Barclay 1978Keyboards Affair Tubular bells Polydor 1983The Black Angel Change an angel (instr) American Disco 1983M-Basic OK, run Deejay 1983Elitechnique Spectral escape Radius 2006Electrick Dragon Davorite Moustache 2009Tanya Jackson Twisted Love (instr.) Sizzle 1984Kano Ikeya seki Teldec 1984Lucy Montenegro Lucy loves hairy boys Moustache 2009Crazy Gang Every Sunday (extended edit) Flexx 2006N.O.I.A. True love ZYX 1984Mirage Change your life (instr.) Memory 1984Revolving eyes Do your time on the planet Moderne Rec. 2007Rude 66 Deeper space woman Loeb 2008Alden Tyrell Odessa theme Clone 2005Doctor's Cat Watch out! ZYX 1983Q The voice of Q Philly World Records 1982
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 20 September 2009 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
That mix looks good. Thx for the link!
― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 20 September 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
look forward to trying out the Overfitted Disco mix, looks promising.
(btw, Capitaine, those dmp mixes you linked to above are freaking amazing)
― picked up the sneer-slack (sciolism), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I should add that (what I think is) Mirage's Change your life (instr.) Memory from the Overfitted mix (it comes in about 42 minutes in) is absolutely incredible Moroder-esque throb.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 September 2009 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
(wait, it might be Revolving Eyes' Do your time on the planet -- who fucking knows, regardless, it's awesome)
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 September 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
As I keep coming back to the Overfitted Disco Spaced Out Disco Mix (and the good-but-overrated Mixed Up at the Hague Vol. 1 mix on which is an instrumental mix) I feel compelled to note that Q's "The Voice of Q" is a fucking Italo godsend. It's not really Italo, as it's a couple of black American dudes. But holy shit, the popping bass, the haunting whistle melody and vocoder, and the "why doesn't any soul singer sing like THAT anymore" vocal make me wish these guys did something/anything else.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 24 October 2009 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
firstly, haven't we already established that "italo" doesn't have to be from italy?
secondly, I'm being ornery because you badmouthed Mixed Up at the Hague, but it's hard to call it overrated. It has it's flaws, but when it came out, it was a real game-changer for so many people. We would likely not be having this conversation if that mix wasn't released. And while they seem like familiar canon classics now, at the time Spacer Woman, Mr. Flagio, World Invasion etc, even that particular mix of Dirty Talk, were all pretty damn obscure and that's a lot of classics to have one one mix.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 24 October 2009 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
So, is all electro soul "Italo," then? I mean, what distinguishes, say, the Jonzun Crew from Q (aside from "Voice of Q" being better than anything on the former's record barring maybe "Ground Control")? Are Jonzun Crew "Italo" too? Are Kraftwerk? I guess that was what disappointed me about Mixed Up at the Hague 1 -- it seemed more like a collection of (mostly great) contemporaneous dance tracks than anything that existed along any kind of thematic continuum.
We could probably debate this ad nauseum, but I feel like the easiest way to determine if a track is Italo is by asking the following question:
Would the Pet Shop Boys like it?
(I'm not actually kidding -- and in this case, I don't think they would. Plus, I think Dan's soft spot for electro is clouding his vision here)
The one group that's actually Italian that kind of makes me question this line of thinking is Kano who are possibly my favorite Italo act...tho something about the debut strikes me as the kind of thing Neill Tennant might appreciate.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 24 October 2009 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
by the time the term "italo" started gaining popularity, particularly in the US, it was used to define a certain type or early 80s euro-disco/synth-pop, and generally nobody gets too disturbed when stuff like World Invasion gets lumped in with the term. Electro is one of the key ingredients in italo, so there's crossover, but generally italo is more poppy.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I know they've been around for a while but I need to rep for the two You Can Trust A Man With A Moustache EP's. If only because nobody on ILM has mentioned them.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 1 November 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
just glad to see someone repping for "Ground Control" ...heavy stuff indeed!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 2 November 2009 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
yo, i repped for ground control on my site back on 10.07.07
― jaxon, Monday, 2 November 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that does't really mean much, just joining in on the repping.
― jaxon, Monday, 2 November 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost: listened to 2 overfitted disco mix and I could barely finish it. it's the mixing.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 2 November 2009 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
How do you mean? It's def. smoother than the mixing on, say, Mixed Up in the Hague Vol. 1 (sorry, Dan) -- and that's legit.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
well, tracks seem to jump suddenly onto each other. it maybe doesn't really matter if the flow is good, but too bad it's not. it's only my opinion of course.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 2 November 2009 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the mixing on Mixed Up in the Hague is fine...the flow is awesome, and it's not legit!
― dan selzer, Monday, 2 November 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
neo-italo worth a spin
http://www.myspace.com/eleganteorchestra
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Not too bad, but doesn't sound like Italo to me.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIev-sdxORM
this counts right?
i first heard it on optimo's how to kill the dj... RIP
― jerk orbison (another al3x), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this
Is this the right thread for it?
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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_qmUUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMsKWl1No0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbofGHQLoY4
― seandalai, Thursday, 30 September 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
all quality tracks, cheers!
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Friday, 1 October 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
it doesn't get much better than the chorus on this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_2qpJPGuM
― lao gan ma (r1o natsume), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this is the epitome of cheese. and also one of my faves:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7bKx0-shPI
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
also jesus, this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCsM1Am7xOM
and this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhaAp26N5vc
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Friday, 1 October 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.italo-interviews.com/
also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFQfhjK9jiM
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Friday, 1 October 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
looove this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSt94LTl0kM&feature=related
― daavid, Friday, 1 October 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
this classic track sung by some asian guy. so bad it's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SusP8Y4xEdM
― Death Cab for Kuti (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAjZ_0jHsE
― Spectrum, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Love that track. Didn't know the whole "chopped/screwed" thing went back to the early 80s.
― Spectrum, Friday, 17 December 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
might as well mention "KKK" while we're at it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0n7iRFpCp0&
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link