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Sign upBiographies and portraits of Italo Disco, synth-pop and adjacent artists.
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November 1987. Mikhail Boyarsky records “Zelenoglazoe Taxi” for a Melodiya long-play. The song was written by composer Oleg Kvasha to lyrics by Valery Panfilov and originally performed by Kvasha himself - but in mass memory it attached itself to Boyarsky. This is a case where a cover outgrew the original: the performer's version became the face of the song, while the author's version stayed with a narrow circle.
Frankfurt, Hamburg and Cologne forged the signature sound of German Eurodance. We break down the production teams, studios and 20 projects that defined the genre from Masterboy to Culture Beat.
Montreal in the early 1980s became one of the capitals of Hi-NRG: Lime, Trans-X and the French-English scene produced dozens of dance hits. We look at the studios, labels and key releases of Canadian electronic dance music.
The Cyber People project combined space-age synthesizers, mechanical vocals and the dance foundation of Italo Disco. We trace the group's history, the cult track "Polaris", and its link to spacesynth.
Late 70s - synth-pop appears in the USSR: Forum, Tekhnologiya, Secret, Kino. Then a golden age, a 90s decline and a comeback through Ploho, Molchat Doma and Peremotka.
1992-1996. Eurodance is born in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, then spreads across Europe. 30 groups clustered by country and production hub.
Mid-80s, Barcelona and Madrid. Blanco y Negro and Max Music license Italian hits, while local projects release their own Italo-disco. A map of the Spanish scene.
1983, Italy. Doctor's Cat releases “Feel the Drive” - a track collectors still open mixes with. Who hid behind this anonymous studio team and why the song outlived the era.
From Giorgio Moroder and Gary Numan to Anne Clark, Sandra and Philip Oakey: fifteen individual catalogues that reveal different forms of synth-pop, from minimalism to club pop.
1986: “Bioconstructor” plays at the Moscow Rock Laboratory. Zodiac from Riga, Alyans with “Na zare”, Electroclub with Tukhmanov - fifteen Soviet synth-pop recordings from 1980 to 1992. Polivoks, Aelita, tape albums and the Melodiya label.
February 2025: Julie Bergan releases EURONITES - an EP in the 90s Eurodance formula. Cascada, Lasgo, Nathalie Aarts, MHM, 7dance - fifteen projects releasing fresh Eurodance in the 2020s. Three renaissance factors: TikTok, production accessibility and the collector community.
1985: Silver Pozzoli releases “Around My Dream” on Many Records. Germany №9, France №21, South Africa №1. One melody that outlived the era. A breakdown: Silvio Pozzoli, recording, charts, versions, reissues and why a four-note melody won't let go forty years later.
1984: on the Memory Records label, Brian Ice's “Talking to the Night” is released - Italo Disco with vocals by Fabrizio Rizzolo and production by the Turatti/Chieregato team. Memory Records - the label of Koto and Hipnosis. A breakdown: production network, vocal substitutions and the track's place in the Italo Disco canon.
1981: the Human League take №1 in the UK, Kraftwerk finish Computer World, and in Montreal Men Without Hats assemble a demo of “The Safety Dance”. International synth-pop bands do not form a single front - each city dictates its own timbre. A guide to seven national scenes from the British hit-factory method to Soviet techno-romanticism.
2024. A new spacesynth album drops on Bandcamp - the cover looks like Laserdance 1987. New space disco: revival or synthwave? A breakdown of the boundary and 12 modern projects.
1984. Alphaville release 'Big in Japan', Propaganda record 'Dr. Mabuse'. Germany in the 80s - an independent synth-pop scene with cities, studios, and sound. 12 groups, a map of Germany.
1985. The German label ZYX Records releases 'Colder Than Ice' - the voice of American Grant Miller, producer Fancy. American vocals in the German italo machine, cold sound and a bass line that never lets go.
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