The following is a list of Italo disco artists and songs, divided in two sections. The first section includes notable Italo disco groups and solo artists. The second section includes Italo disco songs. Solo artists are listed alphabetically by last name while groups are listed alphabetically by the first letter (not including the prefix "the", "a" or "an").
Artists
edit- Alba[1]
- Albert One[1][2]
- Aleph[3]
- Baby's Gang[4]
- Baltimora[1][2][5][6][7]
- Alberto Camerini[8]
- Nadia Cassini[1]
- Claudio Cecchetto[9]
- Pino D'Angiò[10]
- Danuta[11]
- Tullio De Piscopo[2]
- Den Harrow[1][2][7][12][13][14][15]
- Valerie Dore[6][16]
- Tony Esposito[17]
- Fake[14]
- Fancy[14]
- Mike Francis[18]
- Fun Fun[8]
- Gazebo[1][2][6][12][17]
- Gepy & Gepy[19]
- Hipnosis (or Hypnosis)[20]
- Tom Hooker[21]
- Eddy Huntington[22]
- Jock Hattle[1][7]
- Kano[12][17][23][24]
- Klein + M.B.O.[25][26]
- Koto[20][23]
- La Bionda[4][9][10][19]
- Ken Laszlo[2][13][14]
- Gary Low[27]
- Mauro Malavasi[2]
- Mike Mareen[28]
- Martinelli[29]
- Sandy Marton[1][2][7]
- Miko Mission[14][30]
- Moon Ray (a.k.a. Raggio Di Luna)[5][8]
- Giorgio Moroder[1][31]
- Novecento[32]
- P. Lion[6][33]
- Ryan Paris[7][23][34]
- Radiorama[15]
- Raf[12]
- Righeira[1][2][17][35]
- Linda Jo Rizzo[36]
- Alexander Robotnick[8][25][37]
- Sabrina[1][5][8][12][17]
- Savage[38]
- Scotch[14][28][39]
- Silver Pozzoli[23][30]
- Claudio Simonetti[40][41]
Songs
edit| Year | Artist | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | La Bionda | "One for You, One for Me"[10] |
| Giorgio Moroder | "Chase"[31] | |
| Riz Ortolani | "Il corpo di Linda"[40] | |
| 1979 | Easy Going | "Fear"[31] |
| Tantra | "Hills of Katmandu"[40] | |
| 1980 | Kano | "Holly Dolly"[43] |
| "I'm Ready"[17][44] | ||
| "It's a War"[31][45] | ||
| "Now Baby Now"[28] | ||
| 1981 | A Number of Names | "Sharevari"[31][46] |
| Passengers | "The Last Romantic"[19] | |
| Gino Soccio | "Try It Out"[28] | |
| 1982 | Blackway | "New Life"[4] |
| Dharma | "Plastic Doll"[31] | |
| Electra | "Feels Good"[47][31] | |
| Expansives | "Life With You"[48] | |
| Klein + M.B.O. | "Dirty Talk"[2][31][49] | |
| 'Lectric Workers | "Robot Is Systematic"[17] | |
| "The Garden" | ||
| Gary Low | "You Are A Danger"[28] | |
| Pink Project | "Amama"[28] | |
| "Der Da Da Da" | ||
| Gino Soccio | "Remember"[17] | |
| "Who Dunnit" | ||
| Steel Mind | "Bad Passion"[31] | |
| 1983 | Asso | "Do It Again"[50] |
| B.W.H. | "Stop"[31] | |
| Baby's Gang | "Happy Song"[51] | |
| Carrara | "Disco King"[28] | |
| Casco | "Cybernetic Love"[28][31] | |
| Charlie | "Spacer Woman"[28][52] | |
| Doctor's Cat | "Feel the Drive"[31] | |
| Fun Fun | "Happy Station"[31] | |
| Gazebo | "I Like Chopin"[8][9][14][17][36] | |
| "Love in Your Eyes"[17] | ||
| Helen | "Witch"[28] | |
| Kano | "Another Life"[23] | |
| "I Need Love" | ||
| Klein + M.B.O. | "The MBO Theme"[47] | |
| Gary Low | "I Want You"[53][54] | |
| Mr. Flagio | "Take a Chance"[31][49] | |
| My Mine | "Hypnotic Tango"[28][31] | |
| P. Lion | "Happy Children"[33][55] | |
| Plustwo | "Melody"[28] | |
| Ryan Paris | "Dolce Vita"[8][14][55][56] | |
| Righeira | "Vamos a la playa"[17] | |
| "No Tengo Dinero" | ||
| Alexander Robotnick | "Problèmes d'amour"[2][57] | |
| Bob Salton | "Starknight"[31] | |
| Savage | "Don't Cry Tonight"[58][38] | |
| Scotch | "Penguins' Invasion"[28][52] | |
| 1984 | Baby's Gang | "Challenger"[4] |
| Baltimora | "Tarzan Boy"[5][6][8] | |
| Big Ben Tribe | "Tarzan Loves the Summer Nights"[59] | |
| Carrara | "Shine on Dance"[10] | |
| Cyber People | "Polaris"[28] | |
| Valerie Dore | "Get Closer"[14][31][60] | |
| "The Night"[60] | ||
| Fake | "Frogs in Spain"[28] | |
| Fancy | "Slice Me Nice"[17] | |
| Danny Keith | "Keep on Music"[56] | |
| Ken Laszlo | "Hey Hey Guy"[15] | |
| Sandy Marton | "People from Ibiza"[9][55] | |
| Miko Mission | "How Old Are You?"[14][28][55] | |
| Moon Ray | "Comanchero"[5] | |
| Novecento | "Movin' On"[61] | |
| P. Lion | "Dream"[33] | |
| Ryan Paris | "Fall in Love"[56] | |
| Raf | "Self Control"[1][62][63] | |
| Rose | "Magic Carillon"[28] | |
| Alexander Robotnick | "Dance Boy Dance"[31] | |
| Savage | "Only You"[64] | |
| Scotch | "Disco Band"[14] | |
| Topo & Roby | "Under the Ice"[56] | |
| 1985 | Alba | "Only Music Survives"[65] |
| Cyber People | "Void Vision"[28] | |
| Den Harrow | "Bad Boy"[28] | |
| "Future Brain" | ||
| "Mad Desire" | ||
| Valerie Dore | "It's So Easy"[56] | |
| Brian Ice | "Talking to the Night"[58] | |
| Koto | "Visitors"[28] | |
| Loui$ | "Pink Footpath"[28] | |
| Radiorama | "Chance To Desire"[28] | |
| "Desire" | ||
| Taffy | "I Love My Radio (Midnight Radio)"[66] | |
| Thai Break | "Flowers in the Rain"[31] | |
| 1986 | Eddy Huntington | "U.S.S.R."[16] |
| Koto | "Jabdah"[23] | |
| Mike Mareen | "Love Spy"[28] | |
| Radiorama | "Vampires"[14] | |
| Sabrina | "Sexy Girl"[17] | |
| 1987 | Danuta | "Touch My Heart"[67] |
| Den Harrow | "Don't Break My Heart"[14] | |
| Eddy Huntington | "Up & Down"[28] | |
| Funny Twins | "You and Me"[66] | |
| Francesco Napoli | "Balla Balla"[64] | |
| Ken Laszlo | "Tonight"[14] | |
| Sabrina | "Boys (Summertime Love)"[5][16][58][55] | |
| Spagna | "Call Me"[16] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Fabbri & Plastino 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Piazza, Enrico; Fusaro, Francesco (16 January 2012). "RETROTERRA: Storia dell'Italo Disco" (in Italian). Rockit.it. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Sylvester, Daniel (9 September 2013). "Aleph – Fourth Way". Exclaim!. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d Dean, Jonathan (5 June 2012). "1982: Blackway – "New Life"". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f Joubert 2014, p. 48.
- ^ a b c d e Suiveng, Yannick (30 October 2013). "Flashback Top 50 : qui était n°1 en octobre 1985 ?" (in French). Charts in France. Pure Charts. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f Morasca, Fabio (29 July 2013). "Nord Sud Ovest Est, la seconda puntata: Edoardo Bennato, Lollipop, Gazebo e Dj Francesco" (in Italian). TvBlog.it. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
si parla del genere Italo Disco e di alcuni suoi rappresentanti: Baltimora, Sandy Marton, Taffy, Ryan Paris, Joe Yellow, Jock Hattle e Den Harrow.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Eddy, Chuck (8 July 2013). "Disco 101: Real '80S Italo". Rhapsody. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d Camerino, Francesca (26 July 2010). "Le icone della musica: Mike Francis" (in Italian). Soundsblog.it. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d Fossati, Francesca; Depelchin, Anne (1 August 2013). "Musique italienne, una canzone per te (4) : Tous fous pour l'Italo Disco" (in French). France Culture. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ "Pamiętacie Danutę Lato? Jej WIELKIE PIERSI robiły furorę na Zachodzie... [ZDJĘCIA]". Plotek (in Polish). 13 July 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Prato 2010, p. 412.
- ^ a b Jones & Kantonen 2000, p. 229.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Forsberg, Niklas (13 January 2010). "I VENTI D'AZZURO – making italo popular again". Release Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c "Italo-Disco" (in German). Laut.de. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d Khan, Andrew (9 July 2012). "Sounds of Italy – day one: a history of Italian pop in 10 songs". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Kringiel, Danny (27 April 2010). "Italo-Disco – Wammosallaplaia, ohououo!". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Valenti, Gianfranco (19 August 2014). "Fargetta: "Clementino? Vorrei lavorare ancora con lui … e con Gigi D'Alessio!" [INTERVISTA]". Velvet Music Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d Di Maio, Leonardo (10 June 2011). "AA. VV. – Disco Discharge: Mondo Disco" (in Italian). Ondarock. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ a b Theakston, Rob. "Cyber People – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ "One Hit Wonder: Baltimora". PopMatters. 16 July 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
Tom Hooker, a successful Italo Disco performer and producer in the '80s
- ^ Henriksen, Arve (16 October 2011). "Brite vil representere Norge". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g Sciacca, Cristian (28 April 2014). "I 10 video musicali più brutti di sempre" (in Italian). Blog di Cultura. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Kellman, Andy. "Kano – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b Reynolds 2011, p. 266.
- ^ Dimery, Robert (2011). 1001 Songs: You Must Hear Before You Die. Quintessence. ISBN 978-1-8440-3684-4.
- ^ "Gary Low, ídolo de la música disco de los 80, vuelve a actuar en Italia". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 29 December 2008. p. 65. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "15 Essential Italo Disco Tracks". Complex. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ Redigolo, Matteo (3 May 2017). "Il dinamico duo Martinelli". Gli Anni 80 (in Italian). Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ a b Ribera, Anje (25 March 2015). "Silver Pozzoli – Around my dream (Alrededor de mi sueño)". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Santiago, Serge (24 February 2009). "20 best: Italo records ever made". Fact. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Berni, Alessandro (24 June 2008). "Ecco chi sono i Novecento, gli autori di "Cry"" (in Italian). Soundsblog. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ a b c "Il nuovo P.Lion, dai successi anni ?80 ai Procol Harum". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 12 February 2014. p. 12. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Rainho, Ricardo. "Ryan Paris – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ "Rock in Roma, stasera sul palco i Subsonica". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 30 June 2011. p. 15. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b Brightwell, Eric (23 December 2013). "Well slice me nice, Eurodisco legend Fancy is coming to Orange County!". Amoeba Music. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Sicko 2010, "From Here to Eternity".
- ^ a b Brightwell, Eric (23 April 2014). "Italo-disco singer Savage is coming to Southern California". Amoeba Music. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Olofsson, Ola (5 June 2012). "Scotch med hostlåten". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d Thomas, Andy (25 July 2013). "Tantra". The Quietus. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Zennaro, Daniele (26 August 2014). "Goblin, l'orrore è sempre tra noi". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Filippo, Mazzarella (24 May 2011). ""Queen" Franca Valeri e la regina Ivana Spagna". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). p. 15. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Sicko 2010, "The Beginning".
- ^ "Heavy Rotation: Download 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing". NPR Music. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
Lead singer Alex Frankel touches on all corners of the up-till-the-crack-of-dawn nightlife over a dope interpretation of the '80s Italo Disco classic "I'm Ready" by Kano.
- ^ Echols, Alice (2010). Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-3930-7701-8.
However, I did not know that Shannon's hit record "Let the Music Play," which I played faithfully for a couple of months, was part of a new genre called "freestyle" or "Latin freestyle." Nor did I know that Kano's "It's a War" was Italo-disco.
- ^ Brewster & Broughton 1999, p. 349.
- ^ a b Brewster & Broughton 1999, p. 325.
- ^ Needs, Kris (August 2013). "Various Artists – Under The Influence Volume 3: Compiled By James Glass". Record Collector. No. 417. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b "100 Greatest Dance Songs". Slant Magazine. 30 January 2006. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ "Bestsellers: Kristina Records". Dummy. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ Boden, Sarah (20 May 2007). "Justice, †". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
Baby's Gang's 'Happy Song' – an early Eighties Italo disco number
- ^ a b Kellman, Andy. "Alexander Robotnick – The Disco-Tech of Alexander Robotnick". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
Plenty of underground Italo classics (Scotch's "Penguin Invasion," 'Lectric Workers' "Robot Is Systematic," Charlie's peerless "Spacer Woman") are worked in
- ^ Pitchfork Staff (14 December 2009). "The Top 100 Tracks of 2009". Pitchfork. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
Anybody truly scandalized about this track's sampling of Gary Low's Italo-disco jam "I Want You" would've been just as pissed at the 1983 original for having synths.
- ^ Catling, Simon Jay (21 June 2010). "Washed Out". The Quietus. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
The most notable pillage is Gary Low's 1983 Italo disco flutter 'I Want You'
- ^ a b c d e Blánquez, Javier (28 December 2013). "Blanco y Negro, del 'italodisco' al 'eurodance'". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Roulph 2007.
- ^ Collins, Nick; Schedel, Margaret; Wilson, Scott (2013). Electronic Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-1076-4817-3.
- ^ a b c Udell, Phil (1 May 2015). "Music Is My Radar: Cian Ó Cíobháin". State. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ Opperman, Derek (14 August 2014). "Get Familiar: Dark Entries". XLR8R. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
the label has released remastered Italo disco tracks, like Big Ben Tribe's "Tarzan Loves the Summer Nights"
- ^ a b Miller, Terry (22 January 2008). "Valerie Dore – Get Closer". The Stranger. Archived from the original on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Berni, Alessandro (27 December 2014). "NOVECENTO/ Tutti i segreti della band: l'intervista esclusiva" (in Italian). Ilsussidiario.net. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ Levine, Nick (3 August 2010). "Sunday Girl: 'Self Control'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Byrne, Niall (17 June 2011). "Top Story: State's Office Stereo: Handsome Furs, Italo-Disco, Snuff, Drake, Take That & more". State. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ a b Gzyl, Paweł (8 August 2014). "Recenzja: RÓŻNI WYKONAWCY – "Największe hity dla Ciebie: Disco"" (in Polish). Onet.pl. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ "Single of the Day – Alba – Only Music Survives". Days Are Numbers. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ a b Guarisco, Donald A. (6 July 2010). "DISCO DISCHARGE – EUROPEAN CONNECTION: A Big Score of Uncut Continental Dancefloor Gold". Schlockmania!. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ Radniecki, Bartek (28 December 2009). "Gabinet muzycznych osobliwości" (in Polish). Onet.pl. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
Bibliography
edit- Brewster, Bill; Broughton, Frank (1999). Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey. Headline Book Publishing. ISBN 0-7472-6230-6.
- Fabbri, Franco; Plastino, Goffredo (2013). "Italo Disco". Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music. Routledge. pp. 211–212. ISBN 978-0-4158-9976-5.
- Jones, Alan; Kantonen, Jussi (2000). Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Disco. A Cappella Books. ISBN 1-55652-411-0.
- Joubert, Thomas (2014). Les années Top 50 (in French). Gründ. ISBN 978-2-32400-914-3.
- Prato, Paolo (2010). La musica italiana: una storia sociale dall'unità a oggi (in Italian). Donzelli. ISBN 978-8-8603-6529-3.
- Reynolds, Simon (2011). Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing about Hip Rock and Hip Hop. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 978-1-5937-6401-2.
- Roulph, Patrick (2007). "Italo Disco". 12"/33-45 RPM (in French). Patrick Roulph. ISBN 978-2-9527619-0-1.
- Sicko, Dan (2010). Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk (2nd ed.). Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-3712-7.