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October 1983: the Italian project China Town releases a cover of Kim Carnes's “Bette Davis Eyes” - on the Crash label, catalogue number DS 005. Forty years later, that same track ends up in a playlist next to a cover recorded in 2024 on a home studio running Logic Pro 11. The loudness gap between them can reach 8 decibels.
In 1988 the Central Television editorial board refused Mikhail Boyarsky a slot in the all-Union “Song of the Year 1988” festival with his version of “Zelenoglazoe Taxi” - with the wording “very mournful, inexpressive, sleep-inducing”. A version with that verdict nonetheless attached itself to the song in mass perception, while the author's version, by composer Oleg Kvasha, stayed in the shade.
Three hours, six blocks, forty tracks. A 90s disco for a corporate party does not work as a random playlist - it works as a programme with a rising arc: warm-up → dancing → peak → cool-down. Below is the evening's structure by blocks with timing, specific tracks and the logic of transitions. Tempos sit in the Eurodance range of 110-150 BPM (per the Russian Wikipedia article on Eurodance); durations are from Deezer.
1988, Saratov. Former OBKhSS officer Alexander Shishinin and composer Vitaliy Okorokov assemble a female group called Kombinaciya - inspired by a Mirage concert. A year later "Russian Girls" will sound across the country, and by 1992 "Dva kusocheka kolbaski" ("Two Little Slices of Sausage") will become a signature of the Russian 90s disco.
September 1989. Belgian project Technotronic, created by producer Jo Bogaert back in 1987, releases "Pump Up the Jam" - a single that will reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and set the tempo for the entire following decade. The 90s disco does not begin on 1 January 1991, but right here: when the four-on-the-floor kick and synth bass from Frankfurt and Brussels studios hit dancefloors across Europe - and then, with a delay, Russia.
In the 2020s synthesisers returned to the charts: Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, Chvrches and Russian projects show that synth-pop is not music of the past. We explore why the genre is back and which albums matter.
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.
1992-1996. Eurodance videos set the visual code of the decade: chroma key, aerobics, neon, dancers in bright costumes. 20 international videos that explain it best.
1992-1996. Eurodance is born in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, then spreads across Europe. 30 groups clustered by country and production hub.
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.
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.
1977. Moroder and Donna Summer - "I Feel Love." Space - "Magic Fly." Rockets - "On the Road Again." Kraftwerk - "Trans-Europe Express." Cerrone - "Supernature." Five records that set the electronic sound, cosmic aesthetic, and programmed rhythm. The year that changed dance music.
1979, London. Gary Numan tops the chart with "Are Friends Electric?" The synthesizer replaces the guitar, the drum machine replaces the drummer, the sequencer replaces the bassist. From Kraftwerk to The Weeknd - forty-four years. 20 tracks: precursors, birth, golden era, revival. A map of the genre.
1977: Meco and Space give the genre its name. But space disco was not built by them alone. From Cerrone and Dee D. Jackson to Latvian Zodiac and Italian Automat - a map of 15 projects, six countries and three peak years that are less known than Space and Rockets.
2004, Bonn: Cascada launches and within two years sells 30 million records. Eurodance of the 2000s is not a revival of the 90s formula but a mutation into hands up, vocal trance and dance-pop. A country-by-country breakdown: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain.
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