Italo disco is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, pop, and electronic music, both domestic and foreign 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.
Giorgio Moroder, pioneer of Eurodisco and electronic dance music and highly influential to the Italo disco genre
La Bionda, considered among the pioneers of Italo disco
Carmen Russo
Sabrina Salerno
Eurobeat refers to two styles of dance music that originated in Europe: one is a British variant of Italian Eurodisco-influenced dance-pop, and the other is a hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. Both forms were developed in the 1980s.
The majority of Eurobeat labels have been based in Northern Italy, including Lugagnano, Brescia and Mantua (pictured)
Velfarre, a discothèque located in Tokyo, was considered a mecca of Eurobeat during the 1990s and 2000s.