Italo Disco music

The Italo Disco is a Musical genre produced in Italy in the Eighties. Its sonorities take as a starting point the Disco, from where its name, but also of New-wave English. In fact, it is definitely more electronic than the Disco, with the use of machines (synthetizers, limp at artificial rates/rhythms, sounds). This style very creative, is coloured enough, but more melancholic person that the Disco music traditional or that his/her cousin of America, the Hi-NRG. One can thus also regard Italo Disco as an Italian variation of the New-wave.

This style will be followed by the ItaloDance of end of the year 80 at the end of the Nineties, nearer to us.

Artists Italo Disco music

Albert One
Baltimora
Cyber people
Den Harrow
Gazebo
Koto
Miko mission
Mike Mareen
Moon Ray
Mozzart
My undermines
P.Lion (whose title Dream of the Top 50 is known to have been the credits)
Radiorama
Ryan Paris
Sabrina Salerno
Savage
Valerie Dore

Instruments used

The use of analogical synthetizers is characteristic of the music italo-disco music. The synthetizers used are for example:

the Roland Jupiter JX-8P and Juno 60 (Giorgio Moroder, Depeche Mode).
YAMAHA DX7, very largely employed.
the Roland_TR-808 (limps at rates/rhythms).

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