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Do you guys consider Italo Disco as New Wave? I've always considered this style of music as New Wave but I think the "Disco" in the name scares everyone off. It has all the elements to qualify it as being New Wave. Here are the most popular acts/bands from the genre:

Savage
Gazebo
Ken Laszlo
My Mine
Fake (although they weren't from Italy)

Sean

[quote]Originally posted by Sean
[br]Do you guys consider Italo Disco as New Wave? I've always considered this style of music as Ne

I consider Italo Disco to be a bit of a misnomer. In America, "Disco" is of course associated with the style of music from the mid to late 70s (The BeeGees, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Village People, etc...), whereas in Europe, "Disco" is what they call

Sean, I am not familiar with the bands you mentioned. However, I have an ep from 1984 called Fuzz Dance which features the bands Naif Orchestra, Gina & The Flexix, Mya & The Mirror, and Alexander Robotnick. This ep is all Italo Disco but it certainly so

I have Fuzz Dance too; it's all in the same vein. I even featured that Alexander Robotnick song in NTT2. [;)]

Yeah, Italo Disco is a horrible term for a great style of music. First of all, it scares off half of the people because the term "disco" just conjures up the late 70's. (Nothing wrong with the late 70's I might add) Anyways, I believe this music origin

Hello, this was going to be the topic of my first post, but I will make my first post as a reply to your original message. I am a very big fan of both new wave music and european music (e.g. italo disco, sabadell sound, laserdance, and high energy), and I

Do yall intentionally ask questions that only a few would understand, really, WTF is italo disco, i don't even see that on allmusic.com

AMG (allmusic.com) is a good overall reference, but it is pretty focused on American music and english vocal foreign groups that are popular in the US. There is a whole world of music out there that AMG has little or nothing on.