Italo disco emerged in the late ‘70s as the gloriously European interpretation of America’s four-to-the-floor phenomenon. The unashamedly fun, synth-driven sound ruled the Euro disco throughout the ...

An exhibition exploring the history of Italo disco is opening this week at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Electronic Music [MOMEM]. Titled, ITALO DISCO – Never Stop Dancing, the exhibition opens on ...

The disco sound swept the world throughout the 1970s, but nowhere did it find quite so warm a reception as it did in Italy. Of course, in Giorgio Moroder, the country featured one of the disco sound's ...

In the late 1970s, disco died in America and a new wave of Italian producers took advantage of the advances in electronic instruments to craft their own dancefloor fillers. The result was Italo disco ...

Anyone smell a cash in? Surely, surely not. But whatever the pong surrounding it, Disco Italia - Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985 is coming your way on June 23 via Strut. Currently all the ...

Alessandro Melazzini approaches the subject of 80s pop dance music from a particular perspective. Born in Sondrio, Lombardy, the Italian documentarian, who has filmed both nuns and porn stars, is ...

The Iran nuclear deal and Greek debt crisis of 2015, the 'Turbot War' of 1995, the birth of broadcaster Voice of America in 1942, and the rise of Italo disco in the early 1980s. Show more Max Pearson ...

Fiddle with the radio dial any weeknight after 10pm and between the FM frequencies 93 to 95, you will find the national broadcaster transmitting the best in underground electronic music, the newest in ...