La musica si muove appena: The ILM ITALO Poll (Results Thread)

Love it

(That’s “Nathalie Letertre - Reveur” in case the video becomes lost to time)

Squires Hold Me vox are awesome!

Beautiful track!

I’ve long ago went passed the wormhole of preferring instrumental, tracky, italo into almost always preferring vocal versions, and exapanding out into hi-nrg, eurodisco and almost anything else not considered “tasteful” among 80s dance music.

Not in the same league perhaps, but the Nathalie Letertre track reminded me of this tucked away French synth-pop track I dig.

Bibi Flash - Voyage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=243g89oTatY

i definitely have a high tolerance for cheesy/weird italo vocal styles, although i guess i can see on a dance floor how they might be off-putting

another great bibi flash track is “vie privée” - i mixed it into “the pleasure principle” at a DJ night once and it worked beautifully imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQEHPAJn-Xo

<3 chews and donna

I feel I have heard "Voyage" before somewhere, digging it.

Also liking Logo's swift-and-spacey "Bossa Nova 'till the end" right now, although I was pretty sold on the title alone. I don't know if it was because of P-Lion, but I enjoy how much saxophone shows up in italo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tJY4-7RThs

nice French posts! Reminds me of Jennifer Planisphere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd1k5DCYemA

which is a good outro for Patrizia Pellegrino's Automaticamore...

I like the vocal for Jennifer planisphere, and the mid tempo instrumental version (posted up thread) is one of my ALL TIME favorites. Sort of like an italo take on “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” (aside from the actual italo take on MCMR by Clock on Five).

Moscu_ion (amazingly prolific italo/eurodisco youtuber) either deleted their youtube account or had it terminated. A bummer! They were responsible for a lot of videos on this thread (they all now show as unavailable). I was in the middle of attempting to listen to all 5,000 songs they had posted, and was finding a lot of gems.

whoa, truly a bummer! heard a lot of great stuff thanks to that account :(

a "hi-nrg" mix I made a few weeks ago for a radio show, with much italo and italo-adjacent sounds. Arguably more "italo" than "hi-nrg" but who's counting?

https://soundcloud.com/the-magic-message/009-magic-message-radio-dan-selzer-womr-921-wfmr-913?fbclid=IwAR3Gs4TSPHALkZWUCktQuKhQN09rUQ45dqDhhIrw62CTqcTFkUTyqC-TFFw

xxpost:
https://www.discogs.com/user/moscuionica/collection?header=1
7,000+ (mostly italo?) in the collection of discogs user moscuionica (aka Moscu ION)
maybe this can help you continue your dive, Michael?

Two awesome posts 😎

I need to dig out that Data track you start the mix with, I sued to play that a lot when I discovered it. An underrated gem.

thanks. Yeah they've got a few gems, and the b-side of that single is great too. A-O (No Bungalow), which I have an italo version of as well and played on the Lot a few weeks back. A fair amount of italo in here: https://soundcloud.com/thelotradio/superimpositions-special-guest-dan-selzer-the-lot-radio-12-20-2021

On my second listen to the mix now. What’s the track around 7:30ish? I’ve heard CC:Disco play it before and couldn’t work out what it was then either.

Ashaye - Electricity.

Complete tracklist:

1. Data - Living Inside Me
2. Vicious Pink - Cccan’t You See
3. Ashaye - Electricity
4. Peppermint - Light a Light (US Mix)
5. Klein and M.B.O. - Keep In touch (Dub)
6. Tapps - My Forbidden Lover
7. Shy Rose - I Cry For You
8. Gotcha - You’re Wrong
9. Hotline - Guilty
10. New York Models - Love on Video
11. Jock Hattle - Yes No Family
12. Los Angeles TF - Everlasting Fever
13. Amanda Lear - Love Your Body
14. Ramming Speed - When You Walk in the Room (Instrumental American mix)
15. Azul Y Negro - La Noche
16. Rofo - Flashlight on a Disconight
17. Lauren Grey - Putting the Night on Hold
18. Vera - Baby Won’t You Dance With Me
19. Charlene Davis - Aggression
20. Lime - Babe, We’re Gonna Love Tonite
21. Phyllis Nelson - Don’t Stop the Train

Man, Ashaye really covered some ground in his not especially extensive discography. 'Fantasy' on Strictly Rythym is a pretty good house tune but 'Dreaming (Jungle Mix)' is like one of the holy grails of UK streetsoul, amazing song. And his first release was the closest he ever got to a hit and that was a medley of Michael Jackson songs - mercurial guy.

only noticed when playing this time that it was written/produced by Andy Sojka from Atmosfear, of Dancing in Outer Space and Motivation UK Jazz Funk fame.

Sojka was also a key figure in UK streetsoul, all that stuff on Elite. And was involved with Level 42s early stuff as well iirc

Interesting that he'd dabble in hi-nrg. The big UK figure I think of in hi-nrg is Ian Levine, who came out of the Northern Soul scene. He's behind the Ramming Speed on my mix, which is the instrumental of a cover version of the Searchers classic.

I’ve played that Ramming Speed track quite a bit, an evergreen bargain bin staple in record shops round here.

I dug out Everlasting Fever on Friday and gave it a spin at our mainly italo-focussed night after being reminded how good it was on your mix.

Also played on Friday by another DJ was this one I don‘t recall being aware of before, but I am currently addicted to:

Bryvan Stage - Wayout!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBsiC9K-ZSI

new to me track i heard a DJ play at an italo night tonight, so killer

Jerry Moon - Over and Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlqPntfyxEk

^That's awesome.

I heard this for the first time earlier this year, probably the most beautiful italo track I've ever heard (doesn't seem to be mentioned in this thread):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUQ34YWT38

Over and Over is great...kills me when even the repressing are 25 dollars plus.

another nicolosi family banger:

Angie Care - Your Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grzsNOJAgq4

Great memories of one of my DJ partners playing this down the years, such a beautiful heartbreaker.

Heard this one on a Hysteric mix recently and it really caught my ear.

Alfredo E. Muschietti – Winner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGqeU0JRsU

Also been enjoying this one I had overlooked previously involving some of the people behind Mr Flagio.

Art of Love - Looking Through The Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-wWhSVhzDM

love both of those!

another big weepy number:

Alyne - Over the Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG3nLpZUukw

Very nice.

a vinyl IG account i follow posted this today, remembered that i was fully obsessed with this one earlier this year. arguably closer to hi-NRG/new wave than italo proper but a banger all the same

Cube - Concert Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_z1CsYJCY

Concert boy b/w Building on Land is a great single, both sides. I remember the Cube album being decent too!

I wasn't familiar with Cube until I DJ'd an empty saturday at the record store Superior Elevation followed by Jexopolis who played them.

when i was 14 i had a friend who kept trying to make me listen to cube, but i never did because i was dumb :(

have liked what i've heard subsequently though - they sound pretty similar to new musik i think?

not Italo whatsoever, but this was the new wave band that Paul Griffiths was in before Cube, 10CC-esque nerdy power pop, pretty cool i think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdHvNS9YEZg
Stadium Dogs - Easybeat (1978)

and getting back to Italo business, he also played guitar on this amazingness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4OHBQ-CHls
Jo Squillo & Kaos - Dammi Pace (Esplosioni d'Amore) (1984)

I first heard "Concert Boy" in 2020 and it quickly became my Lockdown-Summer-Bike-Ride-Earbuds jam

Concert Boy is a total total hammer and I am now reminded I need to get it into my collection. I didn’t know the connection with Jo Squillo - the LP that track is on is pretty great.

Didnt know Concert Boy, it's very Stacrk Club.

hi grady :-)

This Cube track is great too, as featured on Matthew Burgess & Jolyon Green's Originals comp for Claremont 56

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCnefDUDkY

I usually don't find much charm in many modern remixes of italo classics, but this version hits the spot:

Kano - IT'S A WAR (Purple Disco Machine & Lorenz Rhode Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88xb25fmtdg

these two claudio corradini tracks just got reissued by dark entries, orig. copies of each go for $100+ on discogs so i'm very glad of it. both killer, esp. love the alex molo track:

Garland - Heartbeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T6OeqVKpqA

Alex Molo - Look at Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8-EvEFb6CA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_D98RLPOI0

i got 7/10 :)

I got 6. Of the 4 I didn’t, 2 I should’ve.

yeah two of them i absolutely knew and have heard but couldn’t remember the artist or title. #9 was totally new to me. still the highest score i’ve ever gotten on a Blind Test video lol

Got 7.5, but was hoping for a 9 at least. It’s back to Italo school for me. Number 9 was new to me too.

In other news, I’ve been a bit obsessed with this one the last couple of weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JGj22dK794

love how there’s two italo tracks named “take me to the top” that are totally different but both excellent