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SensitiveFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Give Me / Don't StopA Give MeB Don't Stop ![]() |
La DiscotecaCat No: dss01.5Released: 2015 |
£15.00 |
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BaltimoraFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Tarzan BoyA Tarzan Boy (Summer Version) (6:41)B1 Tarzan Boy (Club Version) (5:10) B2 Tarzan Boy (7" Version) (3:27) |
ColumbiaCat No: 12DBX 9102Released: 1985 |
£8.00 |
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HipnosisFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Droid / Automatic PianoA DroidB Automatic Piano |
DebutCat No: DEBTX 3083Released: 1990 |
£6.00 |
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Harlow, Spargo & Pino MassaraFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Take Off / You And Me / MargaritaA Harlow (2) Take Off (Satisfaction Guaranteed) (10:37)B1 Spargo You And Me (7:06) B2 Pino Massara Margarita (7:03) |
Champagne RecordsCat No: FIZY 103Released: 1980 |
£4.00 |
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Gino SoccioFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
DancerA Dancer (8:23)B Dance To Dance (7:09) |
Warner Bros. RecordsCat No: LV 23Released: 1979 |
£8.00 |
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Kirlian CameraFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Edges new reissueA Edges (Dance Version)B Edges (Instrumental Dub Version) ![]() |
DisordineCat No: disordine02Released: 2015 |
£16.00 |
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Mr. FlagioFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Take A ChanceA1 Take A Chance (Original Version) (7:52)A2 Take A Chance (Instrumental Version) (7:42) B1 Take A Chance (Italoconnection Re-Edit) (6:09) B2 Take A Chance (Italoconnection Rework) (6:24) |
Discoring RecordsCat No: DR-004Released: 2023 |
Out Of Stock |
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RigheiraFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Vamos A La Playa / Playa DubA Vamos A La Playa (5:10)B Playa Dub (7:00) |
HispavoxCat No: 549 055Released: 1983 |
£5.00 |
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Ryan ParisFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Dolce Vita (Extended Disco Mix)A Dolce Vita (Part I - Vocal) (Extended Disco Mix) (7:30)B Dolce Vita (Part II - Instrumental) (Extended Disco Mix) (8:40) |
CarrereCat No: CART 289Released: 1983 |
£10.00 |
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Andy Scott (2)Format: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
KrugerrandsA1 Krugerrands (Club Mix) (4:04)A2 Face (4:48) B1 Krugerrands (Single Edit) (3:40) B2 Krugermental (4:08) |
Statik RecordsCat No: TAK 1012Released: 1983 |
£5.00 |
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BaltimoraFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Tarzan BoyA Tarzan Boy (Summer Version) (6:41)B1 Tarzan Boy (Club Version) (5:10) B2 Tarzan Boy (7" Version) (3:27) |
ColumbiaCat No: 12DBX 9102Released: 1985 |
Out Of Stock |
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VariousFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Disco Exotique. Volume 1A1 The Who Emminence Front (Extended Mix)A2 Roni Griffith Spies (Edit) B1 Klein & M.B.O. Dirty Talk (1983 Warehouse Edit) (Instrumental) B2 Captain Rapp Bad Times (Instrum Edit) B3 Nice & Wild Diamond Girl (Edit) |
Disco ExotiqueCat No: DELP001Released: 2021 |
£14.00 |
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Malcom And The Bad GirlsFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Shoot Me new reissueA Shoot Me (Vocal)B Shoot Me (Instrumental) ![]() |
La DiscotecaCat No: dss04-his008Released: 2015 |
£17.00 |
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Alexander RobotnickFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
Problèmes D'AmourA1 Alexander Robotnick Problèmes D'Amour (Original Live)A2 Alexander Robotnick Problèmes D'Amour (Kenny Dixon Jnr Mix) AA1 Alexander Robotnick Problèmes D'Amour (Carl Craig Remix) AA2 Italcimenti Also Sprach Zaranthustra 2021 |
Hot Elephant MusicCat No: HEM2106Released: 2022 |
Out Of Stock |
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WanexaFormat: Vinyl 12 InchGenre: Italo Disco |
The Man From ColoursA The Man From Colours (6:42)B The Man From Colours (Instrumental Version) (6:44) |
Dark EntriesCat No: DE-132Released: 2016 |
£13.95 |
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Information on the Italo Disco genre
Italo Disco is a very broad term, encompassing much of the dance music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world's first forms of completely electronic dance music and evolved during the late 1970s / early 1980s in Italy, Germany, and other parts of Europe.Italo Disco music has a distinct, futuristic and spacey sound, which was created using synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders. The term, "Italo-disco" was marketed only in Europe in the early 1980s by a German record label ZYX Music.
The entry of synthesizers and other electronic effects into the disco genre produced electronic dance music, including America's Hi-NRG and Europe's Space Disco. The latter received its name because of its odd synthetic sounds, sci-fi costumes, and space-related themes. Dancers and listeners experienced something new because the artists' use of new music-shaping technologies created the perception of being in a very large space and because of the discotheques' lighting displays. Italo Disco's influences were Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, French musician Didier Marouani, a couple of hits by the French drummer Cerrone, electropop (Telex, Devo, and Gary Numan), and the early Hi-NRG albums of San Francisco producer Patrick Cowley with such singers as Sylvester and Paul Parker.
By 1980, Italo appeared as a fully developed form in Italy and other parts of Europe. Songs were sometimes completely electronic and featured drum machines, catchy melodies, vocoders, overdubs, love-song lyrics sung in English with heavy foreign accents, and, occasionally, nonsensical lyrics (due to artists' poor command of the English language). Along with love, italo disco themes deal with robots and space, sometimes combining all three in songs including "Robot is Systematic" (1982) by 'Lectric Workers and "Spacer Woman"(1983) by Charlie. Italo Disco was widely played on radio stations and in discotheques in Europe, but in the English-speaking world, it was mostly an underground phenomenon that could be heard at night clubs.
1982 and 1983 saw the releases of the irony-laden "Dirty Talk," "Wonderful," and "The M.B.O. Theme," three tracks cited as influential in the development of house, by Klein & M.B.O., a side-project developed by Davide Piatto of the Italo disco duo N.O.I.A., with vocals by Piatto and Rossana Casale.
Many see 1983 as the height of Italo, with frequent hit singles and many labels starting up around this time. Such labels included American Disco, Crash, Merak, Sensation, and X-Energy. The popular label Disco Magic released more than thirty singles within the year. It was also the year that the term italo disco was reputedly coined by Bernhard Mikulski, the founder of ZYX Music (Germany), when ZYX released their first volume of "The Best of Italo Disco" series.