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Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [134] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [135] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 136 ]
The term "Euro-disco" was first used during the mid-1970s to describe the non-UK based disco productions and artists such as D.D. Sound, West Germany groups Arabesque, [3] Boney M., [4] Dschinghis Khan and Silver Convention, the Munich-based production trio Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer and Pete Bellotte, [5] the Italian singer Gino Soccio, [6] French artists Amanda Lear, Dalida, Cerrone, Hot ...
Originating in the early 1990s, German minimalist artists, Klaus Schluze and Sven Vath, are often acknowledged as the fathers of trance music. [15] Schranz is a style of fast and loopy techno electronic music characterised by harsh abrasive machine-like sounds. [16] Emerging in the 1990s, Chris Liebing was at the helm of its development. [16]
Date of origin Locale of origin Electroacoustic music: Early 1940s Egypt Musique concrète: 1940s Egypt (Cairo), France Acousmatic music: Late 1940s France (Paris) Drone: 1960s United States: Dub: Late 1960s Jamaica Ambient: Late 1960s – early 1970s Germany, Jamaica, Japan, United Kingdom: Electronic rock: Late 1960s – early 1970s
Silver Convention represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 with "Telegram", finishing eighth. The entry had only English lyrics (with considerably more words than their past hits), but was allowed to enter in spite of the language rule being reintroduced this year, because the song had been chosen to represent Germany before the ...
Trance music is a style of electronic music that originated in Germany in the very late 1980s and early 1990s, upon German unification. Following the development of trance music in Germany, many Trance genres stemmed from the original trance music and most trance genres developed in Germany, most notably " Anthem trance " or also called ...
Eurobeat refers to two styles of dance music that originated in Europe: one is a British variant of Italian [3] Eurodisco-influenced [6] dance-pop, and the other is a hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. Both forms were developed in the 1980s.
Orlando Riva Sound (commonly abbreviated as O.R.S.) was a German Euro disco group founded in 1977 by Anthony Monn and Rainer Pietsch. [1] Their first success was in 1977 with the song "Moon Boots", a mostly instrumental piece. Soon after the group's founding, they added Sophia Reaney as a singer/dancer. The following year, they released "Body ...