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Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [133] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [134] 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. [ 135 ]
The term "disco" in Europe existed long before the Eurodisco and U.S. disco music scene. It was used in Europe during the 1960s as a short alternative to "discotheque". The first dance music venues called discotheques emerged in Occupied France in the 1940s. In the UK, "discotheques" and "discos" were called "clubs" like any other nightclub.
At a similar time, "YouTube Disco" was launched, a music discovery service. It closed in October 2014. [91] [92] YouTube's current headquarters in San Bruno, California (2010 to present) In January 2010, [93] YouTube introduced an online film rentals service which is currently available only to users in the US, Canada and the UK.
In the pantheon of beloved disco labels, the M.F.S.B./PIR catalog is only rivaled by the string of hits released on Salsoul Records between 1978 and 1983.
While the discothèque swept Europe throughout the 1960s, it did not become widely popular in the United States until the 1970s, [27] where the first rock and roll generation preferred rough and tumble bars and taverns to nightclubs until the disco era.
Regine began playing on two turntables there in 1953. Discos began appearing across Europe and the United States. [5] In the 1950s, American radio DJs appeared live at sock hops and "platter parties" and assumed the role of a human jukebox. They typically played 45-rpm records, featuring hit singles on one turntable while talking between songs.
Taylor Swift (left) and Brendon Urie in 2019. Ross, Smith and Wilson all left Panic! at the Disco over time, and by 2016, the group was widely perceived as Urie’s solo project. As for the singer ...
By 1997 and towards the end of the millennium house and trance music increased popularity over Eurodance in Europe's commercial, chart-oriented dance records. [83] [84] [85] In the early 2000s, the mainstream music industry in Europe moved away from Eurodance in favour of other styles of dance music such as nu-disco, electro house, dance-pop ...