― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 April 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 20 April 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
Most of the Italo disco songs that did actually become hits had a bit too much of that typical late-80s digital synth sound to them. The best ones used mainly analog ones.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 April 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 20 April 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
At the moment I'm feeling
Koxo-Step By Step
Also alot of the others recommended above. Actually just recommend any proto house or stuff like that. I am still consistently blown away listening to "She Can't Love You", by Chemise, which the Glimmer Twins introduced me to. Sounds like Frankie Knuckles gone goofy, ten years or so earlier.
So yeah anyone got more recommendations?
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 26 April 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
my all time favorite italo tracks are:
Gaz Nevada-IC Love Affair
and
Mr. Flagio-Take a Chance
I like the spacey electro-y stuff but am also feeling the more organic earlier stuff, the same basslines but more guitars and the occasional sax solo.
I like a lot of the proto-house electronic disco that crossed over, NYC labels like Emergency releasing italo like Kano, Elektra's Feels Good and Capricorn along with Chemise and Shannon, and Sleeping Bag putting out Video's Hey Girl and the even better Video feat. Buckelew Hey Boy (somebody) and a recent fave, Tonight by Synomin or something, how's that spelled?
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.irmagroup.com/php/scheda.php?release=NEW&label=Irmagroup
It has some instrumental versions where I would've liked the vocal versions in many cases, though not Penguin Invasion...that's a terrible vocal.
and you should all go to:
http://www.viewlexx.net/cybernetic-mixage.htm
and dl some mixes, especially the 2 I-F Mixed Up at the Hague mixes, which are mixes of hip italo-disco electro and other euro and NY club tracks. The first one really helped set off this recent trend of interest.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll second that."Cybernetic Love" by Casco, "We Just" by Moses and "Mister Game" by Klapto also rule.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
there was a period of one week or so last month where i only downloaded italo tracks. it was wonderful.
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― Rudolf (Rudolf), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rudolf (Rudolf), Thursday, 29 April 2004 07:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rudolf (Rudolf), Thursday, 29 April 2004 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
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
there is so much good stuff in this thread!
― skip, Friday, 17 December 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there many italo/eurodisco songs with Steve Perry-esque vocals like Secret Service - "flash in the night"?
― deaths and oil painting graphics (blank), Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
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