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Italo-disco is a genre of electronic dance music from TheEighties mostly derived from {{Disco}}, Europop and Progressive music. It originated from UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}, hence the name. Italo-disco descended from [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the sustained popularity of]] {{Disco}} [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in Europe]] after [[DiscoSucks its presumed death]] in North America. Before that, many Europeans made songs featuring synthesizers in pop and dance styles, in part due t the high costs of live orchestras. Music/GiorgioMoroder and Cerrone popularized the use of synthesizer, electronic drum in disco. Italo-disco also used vocoders. The "Space disco" subgenre used space themes.

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* GratuitousEnglish: A staple of the genre, to mixed results given where exactly Italo-disco came from.
* IHaveManyNames: Common to artists. Mauro Farina, Gianni Coraini (Ken Laszlo), and Elena Ferretti had some aliases in the Italo-disco era before continuing the practice in TheNineties.

Definitions of Italo-disco vary over whether the genre began in the 1970s or as late as 1982. In the early 1980s, a sound that is now widely defined as Italo-disco developed, which was influenced by not only Italian music tastes but also by the [[http://www.electronicbeats.net/rewind-an-expert-on-how-italo-disco-became-cool-again/ UK music scene at the time]]. The breakthrough year of "Spaghetti Disco" was 1983, when many of the most acclaimed songs (commercially and/or receptively) came out. As the next years were the heydays of the biggest artists, there were also increased commercialization and production quality, in addition to Euro-disco production booming in nearby countries, mainly Germany. Some Italo-disco releases that made it to Latin America, eastern Europe, and the Pacific Asian nations became iconic hits in these places. The golden age of Italo-disco died down at the end of the 1980s when the Italo-dance, {{EuroBeat}} and Italo-house genres grew. As its popularity reached parts of Europe, non-Italian artists produced their own similar-styled songs that may be labeled "Euro-disco" or even "Italo-disco".

Italo-disco is a genre of electronic dance music from TheEighties mostly derived from {{Disco}}, Europop and Progressive music. It originated from UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}, hence the name. Italo-disco descended from [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the sustained popularity of]] {{Disco}} [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in Europe]] after [[DiscoSucks its presumed death]] in North America. Before that, many Europeans made songs featuring synthesizers in pop and dance styles, in part due t the high costs of live orchestras. Music/GiorgioMoroder and Cerrone popularized the use of synthesizer, electronic drum in disco. Italo-disco also used vocoder. The "Space disco" subgenre used space themes.

Prominent ''Italian disco'' musicians that influenced Italo-disco include Celso Valli, Giancarlo Meo, Claudio Simonetti (who collaborated with Meo), Mauro Malavasi, Stefano Pulga, Pino D'Angiò, and the La Bionda brothers.

Italo-disco is a genre of electronic dance music from TheEighties mostly derived from Disco, Europop and Progressive music. It originated from UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}, hence the name. As its popularity reached parts of Europe, non-Italian artists produced their own similar-styled songs that may be labeled "Euro-disco" or even "Italo-disco".

Italo-disco descended from [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the sustained popularity of]] {{Disco}} [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in Europe]] after [[DiscoSucks its presumed death]] in North America. Before that, many Europeans made songs featuring synthesizers in pop and dance styles, in part due to high song import and orchestra costs. Music/GiorgioMoroder and Cerrone popularized the use of synthesizers in disco, and disco in Europe had quite greater synthesizer usage, including the "Space disco" style. Prominent ''Italian disco'' musicians that would influence Italo-disco include Celso Valli, Giancarlo Meo, Claudio Simonetti (who collaborated with Meo), Mauro Malavasi, Stefano Pulga, Pino D'Angiò, and the La Bionda brothers.

Definitions of Italo-disco vary over whether the genre began in the 1970s or as late as 1982. In the early 1980s, a sound that is now widely defined as Italo-disco developed, which was influenced by not only Italian music tastes but also by the [[http://www.electronicbeats.net/rewind-an-expert-on-how-italo-disco-became-cool-again/ UK music scene at the time]]. The breakthrough year of "Spaghetti Disco" was 1983, when many of the most acclaimed songs (commercially and/or receptively) came out. As the next years were the heydays of the biggest artists, there were also increased commercialization and production quality, in addition to Euro-disco production booming in nearby countries, mainly Germany. Some Italo-disco releases that made it to Latin America, eastern Europe, and the Pacific Asian nations became iconic hits in these places. The golden age of Italo-disco died down at the end of the 1980s when the Italo-dance, {{EuroBeat}} and Italo-house genres grew.