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Sign upWhat came after Italo Disco: the 90s, remixes, heirs.
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1990: in Frankfurt Snap! "accidentally invent Eurodance". The formula crystallises - male rap in the verses, a female melodic vocal in the chorus, a four-on-the-floor kick around 140 BPM. A breakdown of the formula's origins, the studio vocalists and twelve tracks where it works in pure form: from Snap! to Ice MC and Robyx.
1993. 2 Unlimited release 'No Limit' - six weeks at #1 in the UK. The structure is simple: rap verse, female chorus, break, modulation. We break down the Eurodance formula.
1992, Frankfurt. Snap! release "Rhythm is a Dancer." Dr. Alban - "It's My Life." The formula: rap verse, vocal chorus, 130 BPM. From Snap! to 2 Unlimited, Culture Beat, Haddaway. The Italian contribution - Media Records in Brescia. The year the genre understood what it was.
28 November 1956, Massa, Tuscany: Roberto Zanetti is born - Savage as artist, Robyx as producer. From Don't Cry Tonight (1983, Germany #2) to Ice MC, Double You and Alexia in the 90s. Debunking the Eiffel 65 myth: Bliss Corporation was founded by other people.
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.
1993. 2 Unlimited pushed No Limit to the top of the charts, and the genre got its name. Beyond the obvious names - Snap, Culture Beat, Haddaway - stood dozens of projects whose singles sold millions while producers hid behind studio walls.
27 June 1989: The B-52's return after 2 years of silence (Ricky Wilson's AIDS-related death in 1985). #3 Billboard, #2 UK, #1 Australia for 5 weeks. Dreamland Studios, producers Don Was and Nile Rodgers. “Tin roof, rusted” - Cindy Wilson's improv on the last take. RuPaul's MTV debut in the video, $500 fee.
December 1983: Roland ships the TR-909 - a hybrid of analogue synthesis and digital samples. 10,000 units in 18 months and the line is killed as a loss. Ten years later a used unit costs ten times the new price: Frankie Knuckles, Larry Heard, Derrick May pick them up. Roland's flop became the pillar of house and techno.
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Italo Disco, Italo-Disco or Italodisco? Establish a clear editorial spelling and the boundary with Eurodisco and Eurodance, then build an arrangement without parodying the 1980s.
Briton Ian Campbell worked with Mauro Farina and went from late Italo Disco to the main Eurodance hits. Think About the Way, Russian Roulette, 40 years of career.
Italo House - a hybrid of Italo Disco and Chicago house of the late '80s and early '90s. Black Box Ride On Time, FPI Project, Starlight - a bridge between two eras.
How Italo Disco turned into '90s Eurodance - the genre's mutation, the new producers, and why we still mix up these two styles.
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