http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuB0-6LpSc8

Does anyone here have any information on this scene, what clubs were involved in it, typical fashions, and any other information anyone could find relevant to this thread. I tried to do a search and came up with nothing in this forum about Italo Disco. Hope someone can help =)

You can always start with Wikipedia and go from there. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTLEKh0T_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JUY7A0k_GA

You can always start with Wikipedia and go from there. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TTLEKh0T_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JUY7A0k_GA


I love Tarzan Boy. always heard the song on the radio but I never knew there was a video to go along with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4WaWKaXHKM

PFO-Touch Me,Don't Stop (1981)

One of the BIG places to produce alot of talent in the Hi-NRG and Italo Disco genres was here in Canada, most notably Province du Quebec.  These were all big club hits somewhere in the world ...

Voggue - Dancin' the Night Away (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeEJ1Bz18Io

Jade (aka Nancy Martinez) - I'm Gonna Get Your Love (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSYhfPiq28

Lime - Come and Get Your Love (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFb1f-RVnWY

Trans X - Living on Video (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9xBAtCsCTQ

Tapps - My Forbidden Lover (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdRBa0p6lU

Purple Flash - We Can Make It (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS7vckGs934

Chantal Condor - Marinero (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7vgFBXDrwA

Norman Iceberg - Kiss the Beauty (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyQtiBi1jI

Thank you whistle! :D

@Max I wanted personal experiences and 'insider knowledge' of the scene, not a wikipedia page, that I've already seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCnyb0gS-eg

Natasha King - AM-FM {1983}



Dan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCnyb0gS-eg

Natasha King - AM-FM {1983}



Dan


I always thought this old school rap.

Thanks for this thread.  Gives me an excuse to dig up some old Koto stuff.  Swing by our samples thread, and see if you can fill in any of our gaps.  YouTube and other sources may be able to back up some stuff that we weren't able to figure out.

Meanwhile, back in italo-land:

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  - Koto, Jabdah (Vocal Version), 1986. 

Original video from back when crossfading footage of Jabba the Hutt from Return of the Jedi with scenes of your band was pretty high-tech, and the state-of-the-art video mashing techniques involved having the overlaid credits swoop into place.

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  - Koto, Dragon's Legend (12" extended vocal, 1988), fan-made video ca. 2011.

Fan-made video from when everybody has a non-linear-video editing studio on their desktop, and getting footage digitized from the 1983 laserdisc game Dragon's Lair (or a DVD that was presumably sourced from the same cels that were used for the laserdisc) is just a few mouse clicks away.  Friendship is magic, but any sufficiently-advanced technology is close enough.

I'm sorry, I can't give you any real insider information. I wasn't much of a clubber.  :(

That said, Italodisco was rather big in the 1980s over here so even if you stayed at home there wasn't much chance of escaping. I can't think of any Dutch acts that tried their hand at it (besides Koto), but this gives me a chance to post some videos anyway. (You wanna know fashion? Just watch the clips!)


Pino d'Angio - Ma Quale Idea (1981)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_QRZ2ana2Q

(Sounds familiar? That's because a sample was used in Madison Avenue's Don't Call Me Baby)


Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita (1983)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weMrzt6W8V8


Moon Ray - Comanchero (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_KUyM76EQ


Video - Somebody (Hey Girl) (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXdgYuDZ_GA


Silver Pozzoli - Around My Dream (1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZPJpfmqrhk&feature=fvst

Oh, before I forget:

Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte (No Estan Aqui) (1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-otJCqFG1Lk


And this is as close as we got to Italodisco...sorry beforehand!

L-Vira - Talkin' 'bout Rambo (1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWz5CdPzhr0

I'm sorry, I can't give you any real insider information. I wasn't much of a clubber.  :(

That said, Italodisco was rather big in the 1980s over here so even if you stayed at home there wasn't much chance of escaping. I can't think of any Dutch acts that tried their hand at it (besides Koto), but this gives me a chance to post some videos anyway. (You wanna know fashion? Just watch the clips!)


Pino d'Angio - Ma Quale Idea (1981)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_QRZ2ana2Q

(Sounds familiar? That's because a sample was used in Madison Avenue's Don't Call Me Baby)


Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita (1983)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weMrzt6W8V8


Moon Ray - Comanchero (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_KUyM76EQ


Video - Somebody (Hey Girl) (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXdgYuDZ_GA


Silver Pozzoli - Around My Dream (1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZPJpfmqrhk&feature=fvst


I've heard of Pino D'angio, I think he lives in Italy now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGjfcUkRGk

Fun Fun - Color My Love {1984}




Dan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGjfcUkRGk

Fun Fun - Color My Love {1984}




Dan



wow Dan quite an interesting song.

I like the verses of this Belgian song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLY8DXIknjc

And these are the 'Spanish Bananarama'. Notice that some of their movements look like the ones of Bananrama on "Venus":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPJzlfxVbXU
:)

I like the verses of this Belgian song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLY8DXIknjc

And these are the 'Spanish Bananarama'. Notice that some of their movements look like the ones of Bananrama on "Venus":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPJzlfxVbXU
:)


Never heard of those two before... but I quite like that Spanish one.
As for Shanady... well, let's not forget she was only 16.

Video - Somebody (Hey Girl) (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXdgYuDZ_GA


Part of the problem with Italo was that we didn't necessarily know it was Italo.  I remember that track, I like that track, I had it filed under "synthpop".


Silver Pozzoli - Around My Dream (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZPJpfmqrhk


Now we're getting obscure.  Time to break out some obscure covers:

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  - Silver Pozzoli, Step by Step (12"), 1985.

And if you couldn't get away with spinning the original, the cover version was just as awesome (with 20/20 hindsight, the cover's album is about 20% cooler today, but that's just me being biased :)  Where was I?  Oh yeah.  Taffy covering Silver Pozzoli.

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  - Taffy, Step by Step (Angel Gabriel 12"), 1987.

Taffy actually made it big enough to have an official music video, not just the YouTube fan-made ones used as covers for the music:
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  - Taffy, Once More, 1985 (Up there's the best version of the radio edit I can find, and here's the 12" remix)

And now to round out my Taffy theme tonight, here's a 25-year-old unsolved musical mystery: Where'd the samples come from in this remix? They all refer to US radio stations ca. 1986.

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  - Taffy, I Love My Radio (Hot Tracks Mix) (original track 1985, remix by Mark "Hot Rod" Trollan, Hot Tracks #5, 1986.

No, not "Does anyone remember the difference between Italo disco and Italo house, and/or the difference between Italo house and Chicago house?" (Because if I ever did, I sure as hell don't anymore.  Although I would like to know...)

But more importantly, I still need some help from Chicagoans and other midwestern radio fans for for Sample Sources for Taffy's I Love My Radio.  Help me out, Chicago, and I'll spread the gospel that friends don't let friends put ketchup on their hot dogs.

Samples in question start at the start of the song, and resume at the break at 4:19 in the linked video.

Part of the problem with Italo was that we didn't necessarily know it was Italo.  I remember that track, I like that track, I had it filed under "synthpop".


Italo disco, Euro disco, Hi-NRG, synthpop... it's all a blur to me. :D


Now we're getting obscure.  Time to break out some obscure covers:

  - Silver Pozzoli, Step by Step (12"), 1985.


Ah yes - the other Silver Pozzoli hit record. Sure I remember. 8)


And if you couldn't get away with spinning the original, the cover version was just as awesome (with 20/20 hindsight, the cover's album is about 20% cooler today, but that's just me being biased :)  Where was I?  Oh yeah.  Taffy covering Silver Pozzoli.

  - Taffy, Step by Step (Angel Gabriel 12"), 1987.

Taffy actually made it big enough to have an official music video, not just the YouTube fan-made ones used as covers for the music:

  - Taffy, Once More, 1985 (Up there's the best version of the radio edit I can find, and here's the 12" remix)

And now to round out my Taffy theme tonight, here's a 25-year-old unsolved musical mystery: Where'd the samples come from in this remix? They all refer to US radio stations ca. 1986.

  - Taffy, I Love My Radio (Hot Tracks Mix) (original track 1985, remix by Mark "Hot Rod" Trollan, Hot Tracks #5, 1986.

No, not "Does anyone remember the difference between Italo disco and Italo house, and/or the difference between Italo house and Chicago house?" (Because if I ever did, I sure as hell don't anymore.  Although I would like to know...)

But more importantly, I still need some help from Chicagoans and other midwestern radio fans for for Sample Sources for Taffy's I Love My Radio.  Help me out, Chicago, and I'll spread the gospel that friends don't let friends put ketchup on their hot dogs.

Samples in question start at the start of the song, and resume at the break at 4:19 in the linked video.


Taffy... truth be told, I only remember I Love My Radio. And I hardly even remember that.

Italo disco, Euro disco, Hi-NRG, synthpop... it's all a blur to me. :D

Ah yes - the other Silver Pozzoli hit record. Sure I remember. 8)

Taffy... truth be told, I only remember I Love My Radio. And I hardly even remember that.


We were probably on the other side of the planet, we can let it slide. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UAe3ybMTs

  - Finzy Kontini, Sexy Bon, 1989.

The original 80s cover art is more appropriate to the thread (hit up those discogs links!), but the audio's identical, and if I've gotta stare at something for six minutes, it's gonna be CGI footage of a Maserati being driven through the Italian countryside... until I realized it was set in Japan.  And that the guy recording his game session was suffering from a severe case of keyboard/console-impairment vs. what he'd have had if he'd been using a steering wheel.  Still, it's close enough for Internet work! 

Off to rummage through the archives, back in a few days!

Now I'm totally reminded of these obscure songs...

P. Lion - Happy Children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97bnfcuPOjc


Gary Low - You Are A Danger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJY3YQOwmh8

Now I'm totally reminded of these obscure songs...

P. Lion - Happy Children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97bnfcuPOjc


Gary Low - You Are A Danger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJY3YQOwmh8


I heard Gary Low's "You Are A Danger" before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6fQEKS0Xo8

Sphinx-When I'm In Love (1983)

Some Italo songs with hip-hop sound:

Chato - No No No (1985):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxk8S2FTf8c

Natasha King - AF AM (1983):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXiroryu_oU

I love these two hits by Fun Fun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc4G8w3Ocbo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOl-FrB-Oxo

The real singer from Fun Fun called Spagna had a cracking hit in 1987 with 'Call me'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZLdWebwI1E

If you want something a little off-kilter here's Scotch with Disco Band and if you want something outdated here's USSR by Eddy Huntington (song starts at the 40 sec mark).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLbEZU7YB-w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM9MB9x6wmU

If you want something a little off-kilter here's Scotch


"Fasten your seat belts, we're taking you to a new dimension in dance music!" (t=3:33)

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(Hey, I still need some lyrics help here!)

"??? number full of zero,
Born to be a business hero!"
- Scotch, Money Runner, 1986.

And in keeping with the board's tropism towards penguins, no Italo thread could be complete with:

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- Scotch, Penguins Invasion, 1983.

I love these two hits by Fun Fun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc4G8w3Ocbo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOl-FrB-Oxo

The real singer from Fun Fun called Spagna had a cracking hit in 1987 with 'Call me'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZLdWebwI1E

If you want something a little off-kilter here's Scotch with Disco Band and if you want something outdated here's USSR by Eddy Huntington (song starts at the 40 sec mark).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLbEZU7YB-w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM9MB9x6wmU


Whatever to that group after the 80's? ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDV_dBYp4h0

These were played regularly on Hot Mix back in the day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYa4PQo_SNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw76gF1rzV0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeWCCA6AY0E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEvn4oYjeQ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWzFltaaI-g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE25C_OSXqo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeyzYC-97T0

"Fasten your seat belts, we're taking you to a new dimension in dance music!" (t=3:33)

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(Hey, I still need some lyrics help here!)

"??? number full of zero,
Born to be a business hero!"
- Scotch, Money Runner, 1986.


I like this one.  8)

I recommend the comparatively gentle 'You take me up' too. Some more nice ones...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpYtYe7RSws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfc-knHB41U

These were played regularly on Hot Mix back in the day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYa4PQo_SNA


I definitely like this one. Good work, Patrick.  :)

I like this one.  8)

I recommend the comparatively gentle 'You take me up' too. Some more nice ones...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpYtYe7RSws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfc-knHB41U


never heard of Savage. pretty cool video.  :)