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Sign upBiographies and portraits of Italo Disco, synth-pop and adjacent artists.
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Antonio Esposito - a jazz percussionist from Naples who recorded one of Italo Disco's most unexpected hits. African kalimba, the Boney M cover, and the 2020s return.
Giorgio Moroder - the South Tyrolean Italian who invented the language of electronic dance music. Donna Summer, three Oscars, the sequencer bass, and a comeback with Daft Punk.
One of Italo Disco's most unusual artists - his tracks are known to everyone, but his biography is still shrouded in mystery.
Similarity to Mirage can mean a synth arrangement, female vocal, producer-built backing track or nocturnal romance. Seven comparisons without pretending the bands are identical clones.
Stefano Pulga and Carlo Maria Cecchiella's Italian project built meditative cinematic electronics. Pulstar, End Title, a niche cult among collectors.
The French-Italian group Rockets performed in silver suits and made cosmic electronics before Italo Disco became a genre. Predecessors of Koto and Laserdance.
One of the '80s' most popular "pseudo-Italian" artists - the German Fancy and his remarkable career in the Italo Disco aesthetic.
Erik van Vliet and Michiel van der Kuy built one of the instrumental Italo Disco flagships. Humanoid Invasion, Power Run, influence on synthwave, and current work.
Jacopo Paolucci recorded "Happy Children" at 18, and the track became one of Italo Disco's defining hits. The story of the artist and the fate of his main composition.
Andrea Cresci's instrumental project with hits Visitors and Jabdah defined the space disco sound. A key team in Italo Disco's instrumental branch, still influencing synthwave.
Carmelo and Michelangelo La Bionda from Sicily recorded Bandido and One for You, One for Me before Italo Disco was born. Their production school laid the foundations for the whole genre.
The story of one of the few female stars of mid-'80s Italo Disco and her path from Sanremo to international popularity.
Koto, Laserdance, Hipnosis - flagships of space disco, the instrumental branch of Italo Disco with cosmic aesthetics. Origins, key tracks, and influence on synthwave.
The story of the young Englishman who became one of Italo Disco's stars with the hit "USSR" - a track charged with Cold War political context.
The story of an Italian artist working under an English pseudonym and his energetic mid-'80s hit.
Why the German duo became a cult precisely in the Eastern Bloc - the story of Modern Talking and their special bond with the post-Soviet public.
Ajda Pekkan, Sezen Aksu, Barış Manço built a unique hybrid of Italo Disco with Eastern melody. A little-known page of the genre's history beyond Europe.
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