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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 ...
Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) [1] 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 ( hi-NRG , Euro disco ) and developed into a diverse ...
In the late 1970s, Eurodisco musicians such as Silver Convention and Donna Summer were popular in America. [7]In the 1980s, a highly polished production with "musical simplicity" at its core — from Bubblegum Pop-like lyrics, catchy (in some cases Italian, in other Eurodisco-like) melodies, to "elementary" song structures — an average British Eurobeat song took very little time to complete. [8]
Germany, Jamaica, Japan, United Kingdom: Electronic rock: Late 1960s – early 1970s Europe, Japan, United States Krautrock: Late 1960s – early 1970s West Germany: Space music: Early 1970s Germany, Japan [1] [2] Bhangra: Early 1970s India, Pakistan, United Kingdom Disco: Early 1970s United States Hip hop: Early 1970s United States Industrial
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a bar and discothèque (usually simply known as disco) with a dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music.
The genre started to become increasingly commercialized, and the large number of disco songs flooding the radio airwaves in 1978–1979 resulted in a growing backlash against it, as epitomized by the "Disco Demolition Night" stunt by a Chicago disc jockey at a July 1979 baseball game at Comiskey Park.
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