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It happened in 1987. (New Year) when I found out about Italo Disco music. I was just 14, but I knew something special happened to me - I became addicted to beauty, harmony, and sound of this really remarkable part of disco music. First songs I heard were Albert One - For Your Love, Radiorama - Hey Hey / Aliens, Why Not - Smile, Mike Mareen - Love Spy, Latin Lover - Laser Light, Italian Boys - Gigolo, Robby Hood - Two Of Hearts etc...

There were groups that belong to German Disco, such as Modern Talking - Brother Louie, Fancy - Lady Of Ice / Bolero, C. C. Catch - Heartbreak Hotel / Heaven And Hell, Silent Circle - Touch In The Night, Bad Boys Blue - You're A Woman...

Very popular, 3rd part of  of disco music, we called Canadian Disco, or shortly Canada, but in fact we were thinking of Hi-NRG: Patrick Cowley with legendary hit Menergy, Bobby Orlando - Whisper To A Scream, Divine - Shot Your Shoot, Girly - Working Girl, The Flirts - Passion / Helpless, Trans X - Living On Video..

There was quite a terminological mess as it still is all over the world. For example German label ZYX publishes songs of German groups under the name "The Best Of Italo Disco"!? So is German Disco the same as Italo Disco? Huh, who knows... But using my experience I would divide songs like this:

Hi-NRG: 1980 - 1986


(Patrick Cowley, Sylvester, The Flirts, Divine, Bobby Orlando)

Italo Disco: 1983 - 1988


(Radiorama, Atrium, Latin Lover, P. Lion, Scotch, Linda Jo Rizzo)

Canadian Disco: ???? - ???? (very questionable style of disco music)


(Trans-X, Lime)

> many of the #1 records in North America were produced in Canada, and often licensed by USA and European labels so many DJs started calling it Canadian Disco <

Italo NRG: 1988 - till today
(Alphatown, Coo Coo, Oscar, Diego Vidal, Mark Farina)

> many people on the Internet call this Hi-NRG, and some even Italo Disco - this is an absurd to me because these styles are finished in eighties, there is also term New Italo <

EuroDance: 1994 - till today
(La Bouche, Haddaway, Masterboy, E-Type, Mr. President)

> this style has few more terms: Dance, Hi-NRG, Eurobeat (again mistake - Eurobeat was produced at the end of eighties, mostly by producers trio Stock/Aitken/Watermann - Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan) <

EuroDisco:1978 - till today

> It includes all of disco music created in Europe <

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This is what it is supposed to look like - from eighties till today. Many people will not agree with above, but it is important to set terms so we could understand each other.

So after first obsession with all of Italo, some songs were stressing their quality. I was really impressed with Mike Mareen, and the best song Love Spy. Many various sounds implemented into harmonic complex where energy simply bursts. Seems like in that song, the same as Mozzart - Money, we can find beginnings of music we even didn't know that will appear - EuroDance. Very fast, energetic rhythm with modern technical improvement gives perfect results. We can be happy to live in presence. I wonder what will the future bring...
Enjoy!

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