Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- Eurodisco post-disco hi-NRG synth-pop
- Cultural origins
- Late 1970s – early 1980s, Italy
- Derivative forms
- Eurobeat Italo house Italo dance electroclash synthwave space disco vaporwave
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- music of Italy
- Part of
- electronic dance music
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Image
- Итало диско.png
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- topic's main category
- Category:Italo disco
- Commons category
- Italo disco
- inception
- 1978-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
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Italo disco or Italodisco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) is a music genre which originated in Italy in the early 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current post-disco dance music and synth-pop, both domestic and foreign (hi-NRG, Euro disco) and developed into a diverse genre. The genre employs electronic drums, drum machines, synthesizers, and occasionally vocoders. It is usually sung in English, and to a lesser extent in Italian and Spanish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Italo disco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.