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Sign upBiographies and portraits of Italo Disco, synth-pop and adjacent artists.
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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.
The story of one of Italo Disco's most interesting instrumental projects - Kano, whose electronic sound was ahead of its time.
Papa Dance, Kombi, Urszula, Bajm - the Polish version of the Italo Disco phenomenon. How the local scene adapted a Western genre in an Eastern Bloc country with a softer regime.
The story of one of Italo Disco's most mysterious artists - Miko Mission, his unexpected age, and the hit all of Europe knew.
The story of the Italian duo whose "Vamos a la Playa" became the anthem of European beaches and one of the most recognizable tracks of the era.
One of the most prolific yet little-known Italo Disco producers - the man who wrote dozens of hits but stayed in the shadows.
A trio from Cologne with members from the USA, UK, and the Antilles. L.O.V.E. in My Car and You're a Woman became era anthems, especially in Eastern Europe.
Josephine Hiebel under the Lian Ross name recorded 1985's "Fantasy" - one of the main female hits of German-Italian Italo Disco. A cult in Eastern Europe through the 2020s.
The story of one of the main Italian groups of the early '80s, whose hit "Disco Band" became a genre classic and a calling card of a whole era.
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