Introductions

I am surprised, but welcome !

It's addictive isn't it :) I was 2 when Doctors Cat - Watch Out came out.

Welcome.
It 'nice to have an extra touch and female opinion in the forum.

Welcome Kopriva .

Kopriva
when I stumbled upon Doctors Cat - Watch Out on youtube. I was instantly hooked and never turned back since

little_alien
It's addictive isn't it :) I was 2 when Doctors Cat - Watch Out came out.

Yes, I had to be 14 years old when I listened to it for the first time, and that was very hypnotic for me .

Welcome Kopriva .
Not as young as you,but yes,I,m addicted too.

Hey! -good to meet you!! :)

Kopriva
I have to say that Italo has pulled me in so deep that my life has become a constant pre-occupation with the genre.

I certainly know what you mean - just ask my girlfriend!!

Welcome Kopriva! Nice to see you on the forum :-)
Prepare for a lifetime addiction and a lifetime of discovering :-) :-) I'm collecting about 30 years and i'm getting to know "new" italo discoveries almost every day, untill this very day!! And i mean from the 80's ofcourse :-) Guess it never ends...lol

Italo disco the new generation. Welcome! :)

1 ... negativo "No payment received from buyer after 10 days.")))))) yes, this is new generation of female italo lovers ;)

Zolono always finds something to nag about....haha.

I never present myself as 41 year old male italo lover though... ;)

Wow... with 14 italo infected... i was 17! ;)
Welcome!

I was 31. Never too old etc.

16 when i get hooked in 1986, and just enough money for 2 records a month

the real goldminers are (at least) 48 now.

I am 48 :)

Welcome, but please pay your invoices! :) Greets to Zolono! :)

This world is full of fakes. Probably this is a fake.
So ..save your energy for better things, guys. ;)

hahaha...I had my doubts from the first moment too...but I'll give it my benefit of the doubt. It's interesting to see how the crowd reacts to this too. ;)

young italo girls are rare haha

I agree to Jogi.
Also her wantlist is very implausible.
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/wantlist?=Kopriva

It's the oldest trick in the internetbook.

The cute picture/avatar and alll...

But I agree....young girls in the Italo scene are pretty rare...
haha

I'm only 24, is that odd?

I don't see how gender has anything to do with it. Perhaps record collecting is a more male dominated sport but quite a few of my female friends are into the genre

Yeah, when I go to italoparties I see younger women (men also) who really seem to enjoy italo. I fully understand.

Maybe collecting is a 80ties thing in this world of , mp3 en wifi

Well the person behind it has manage at least to add a photo to the profile avatar and that is more than I have manage to find out. How the h**l do you do that? I usually on a ipad 1 is that the problem? When I press picture nothing happens...

Btw another funny thing, write in Kopriva in google and look at the pictures anyone knows what that is! Nessles!!!

ThomasTSweden
How the h**l do you do that?

You have to use a special site recommended by discogs else it won't work.

O.k. I just sent private message to Kopriva through discogs....now let's see if "she" wil answer.

henrypercy
I don't see how gender has anything to do with it. Perhaps record collecting is a more male dominated sport but quite a few of my female friends are into the genre

same here: quite a few ladies I know are not only into italo, but also know the track names, etc.

for what it's worth I did have a message from Kopriva before she ed the group.
Seems legit if you ask me, although we are probably not encouraging her to post her by speculating if 'she' is in fact a 'he'
Although I will eat my words if ads for Raybans start appearing ;-)

wiz_of_oz
O.k. I just sent private message to Kopriva through discogs....now let's see if "she" wil answer

Wait until message #3 before you ask her out. Don't want to seem too desperate, you know.

maxi-freak
I agree to Jogi.
Also her wantlist is very implausible.
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/wantlist?=Kopriva

+1

double post

C'mon guys...let's settle down a bit and subdue the creeping. It's not very welcoming.

mjb
mjb
about 7 hours ago

wiz_of_oz
O.k. I just sent private message to Kopriva through discogs....now let's see if "she" wil answer

Wait until message #3 before you ask her out. Don't want to seem too desperate, you know.

wasn't planning to...you?

hysteric
for what it's worth I did have a message from Kopriva before she ed the group.
Seems legit if you ask me, although we are probably not encouraging her to post her by speculating if 'she' is in fact a 'he'

O.k. that answers my question I guess although you never can really tell on the internet...of course.

hysteric
hysteric
about 8 hours ago

henrypercy
I don't see how gender has anything to do with it. Perhaps record collecting is a more male dominated sport but quite a few of my female friends are into the genre

same here: quite a few ladies I know are not only into italo, but also know the track names, etc.

same here in Holland, when going to parties like organized by Bordello A Parigi you see the young know and love italo but mostly (exceptions of course) only on the surface. Good to see anyway!

Well this is a depressing thread. Group up guys.

...

o.k. got answer from Kopriva. She will answer questions here soon.

Chewshabadoo
Well this is a depressing thread. Group up guys.

+1

A girl says hello on an Italo forum and the man's mind goes bananas, thinking of fake ideas, trying to find conspiracies... Common guys... seriously? :-)

And who is ever present? Our oh so positive friend Zolono.. Why am I not surprised?

let's not focus too much on that my friends, keep it light. :)

wiz_of_oz
wasn't planning to...you?

Hey, you are the one who said:

wiz_of_oz
The cute picture/avatar and alll...

ew ew ew :)

mjb
mjb
24 minutes ago

wiz_of_oz
wasn't planning to...you?

Hey, you are the one who said:

wiz_of_oz
The cute picture/avatar and alll...

ew ew ew :)

well, I wasn't falling in love with her or something but I can see if a girl is cute or attractive in general. Can't speak for everyone of course but again you really want to discuss this with me over here? :) Besides 20 years is a bit too young for me don't you think? I could teach her a lot though...italo I mean...

Kopriva
I have tried over and over to show people my age just how amazing Italo is, but they don't get it.

Sadly, this is the same situation among people twice your age, and more. Some of us hear it and go "whoa, wait a minute, WHAT is THIS?" ... but everyone we try to share it with just makes the lemon face.

mjb
... but everyone we try to share it with just makes the lemon face.

Definitely something you gotta ease certain people into. My partner only heard of Italo through me in 2007...(our first date started at my Italo radio show @_@) but it only took a few more parties to realize it was one of her favourite genres! Took her about a HALF A SECOND to get into catchy stuff like Ken Laszlo, Radiorama, Gazebo but is now into the weirder SPACED OUT stuff that makes Italo so perfect in my opinion!

Story is the same for a lot of my friends who had also never heard of Italo. Lots of metalheads, noise freaks, punx, etc so I think an appreciation of "nontraditional" music is the common factor. Still have yet to convert a "norm" who's into that commercial EDM shit, though :/

Hahaha noice freaks, what the hell are they listen to.........

phasers2stunna
noise freaks

maxhim
Hahaha noice freaks, what the hell are they listen to.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_music

I'm a noise freak too! ;)

Hey Kopriva - what are some of your favourite tracks? Would be good to hear!

Thanks for your post Kopriva. I learned to live with the fact that music is only liked by few people and even within that group there are great differences of what people like or don't like (or even hate). You check some discussions here for example for proof of that haha. ;) Discussion can become quite heated both ways hate and love-wise but that only shows how ionate the people are about italo. This group is a nice community and special I think. Together here we form quite a big community and you don't feel alone so much. ;) Have fun sharing and loving italo disco with us here!

Never heard of it.
Listen to it today, it think it's the right stuff voor heavy l.s.d. or mushroom trips .

henrypercy
I'm a noise freak too! ;)

So welcome @ discogs :)
In case you did not know, here a recommendation for a really good german Italo-Disco forum:
http://www.italo-disco-forum.de

wiz_of_oz
This group is a nice community and special I think. Together here we form quite a big community and you don't feel alone so much. ;) Have fun sharing and loving italo disco with us here!

Well said pall!

@ Kopriva: You're very welcome. A female touch on an Italo-forum will certainly be very refreshing. See you in the toppics

I guess this is a nice opportunity for someone (me) who only lurks these threads to make one's presence known....hi from Sweden!

BTW, regarding italo being some kind of "outsider" music I kinda feel the opposite, there is at least certainly no lack of DJ:s playing italo as parts of their sets in my town (Malmö). But total italo freaks? Maybe not that many ;)

Welcome!

Hi to everybody from Denmark!! I'm 43 and have been a Italofan for 30 years by now.

Italo is like an iceberg. You have listened to so much during the years, and I'm amazed that I can still find lots of tracks that I have never seen or heard if before lol. It's like I have only scratched the surface sometimes.

I have a very good friend who is also a Italofan like myself and I believe that there are more ppl out there loving Italo Disco than U think (also a lot of ppl not willing to it it lol) :-)

Any way have been a member of Discogs for some years now but have only recently found my way to theese forums.

wiz_of_oz
Welcome!

Thank you!

Kinman, hi! I am somewhat like you, I have listened to italo since 1983 and to my surprise I keep finding "new" stuff year after year. I grew tired of italo by the late eighties, ignorantly thinking I knew everything, while in reality as a kid scratching the surface was all one really did...
How lucky then that I actually made a comeback after a very long hiatus, finding out how very very wrong I hade been... :)

Maybe we should make a sticky for every member who was to introduce him/herself here.

Kopriva
If any of you have Instagram my is Pelagieya

NOW I am really convinced as well. Maybe the photo just appeared a little bit ... uh ... photoshopped to some people...
But there's a wonderful one of yours @ Instagram (ID = p9vcwsiKbq, tilt head to the left LOL) which has you depicted in a very natural way.
I prefer these photos to those that show "90% make-up, 10% woman". ;-)

Unfortunately one of the here was right saying there are way too many fakes. Hence skepticism always reigns...my excuses on behalf of everybody.

wiz_of_oz
Maybe we should make a sticky for every member who was to introduce him/herself here.

done

If you browse the topics a bit you see some where tell about themselves:
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/groups/topic/302842
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/groups/topic/326049
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/groups/topic/168426
etc. etc.

Thanks George for the sticky! :)

Lot's of this never post any comments last year.
Pls come back dear people

Kopriva ?

haha

funny?

Hi,

I guess this is a nice time to introduce myself as well.
My name is Chris, I'm from the United States and I'm 21 years old.
I don't really scour the forms as much as I scour through discogs to find really good synth-pop, Hi-NRG and Italo-Disco music and more recently I have started collecting 80s movie soundtracks.
When I was 17 I started listening to 70s disco music because I found a crate of records in the garage from my parents home. When I turned 18 I got into Hi-NRG music. My first Hi-NRG record was Lime - Your Love 1980. Maybe around December of that same year my first Italo Disco song was Alan Barry - Come On 1986. I like eurobeat as well. Although, I have more of a ion for 80s music. I've been collecting Vinyl records since I was 17 I used to buy records from someone in Philadelphia. I now buy music from Discogs, Musicstack, Ebay and from people I've met over the years. I always listen to this type of music on my way home from work I always play it loud because it's too damn good! :) In hopes that someone will say "hey this music is awesome" but this only seems to be a fantasy. :(
This is my little story.
Anyways I hope to get everyone here as well.

to know*

Hi Kopriva,

That's pretty awesome, two minds think a like. Yeah you know this is the only way to get this music out there. Where I live, I doubt anybody listens to italo disco. This is why I do this, it's bad enough that this music is very obscure in the United States. It's very rare to see anybody playing this music at all. Maybe in New York, California or Florida but rarely anyone else it's kind of sad. I play this music often when I drive home from work the clubs here play only rap and other low quality music (This is just my opinion, sorry if anybody likes rap). To me, Italo disco can be romantic, exciting and very fulfilling. I made it through some tough times in my life thanks to this wonderful music. I will keep listening to this music until forever because I feel as if this music makes me a better person day by day. This type music is also very inspirational, it has a special charm to it.
Very cool that you dress like someone of the 80s. Keep the spirit alive. On another note 80's clothing is very sexy! :)

italo in its purest naive form is the most relevant and hip form of pop music today imo
thats the reason why italo is growing among teenagers now
music - lyrics - approach - melodies - kitschy aesthetics - italo is a new urban folk

Nicely put, though is this really true?? :)
Vice seem to think so too...
Why Italo Disco Is Due a Comeback

housesweethauss
italo in its purest naive form is the most relevant and hip form of pop music today imo
thats the reason why italo is growing among teenagers now

Interesting thought. What I see (not only with younger people) is that italo attracts people coming form all sorts of musiclovers cause it has ingredients of those genres in it. Italo disco is also very diverse wether it may be more rock, wave, disco, hi-nrg, electro, pop etc. so many people find something that meets their taste. That makes it also kinda vague to say: "i like italo disco" cause you don't really know what kind that person is talking about...

wiz_of_oz
Italo disco is also very diverse wether it may be more rock, wave, disco, hi-nrg, electro, pop etc.

anyway the thing is not about quality of music, im not talking about people who can enjoy general pop music, italo is completely different pespective i think
it's about hedonistic depressed emo style and approach that only italo has. this is so relevant for todays youth
as said in vice article - italo poetry is so cheesy and cold at the same time that it's turn out almost existential, just listen to ranko "happy world". HOW they sing it makes me cry
the thing is to forget that italo is trash and take it in earnest - it will appear deep and devastating

housesweethauss
HOW they sing it makes me cry

I have that too with a lot of Italo songs. :-)
Rose - Memories
Marco Martina - Fortune Teller
The Creatures - Inspiration

That's what people call "emo" (sometimes in a negative way) and I think it's totally o.k. and maybe the most important ingredient (next to melody perhaps) of italo disco. It's easy to ridiculise (for non italo disco lovers) but if you take more serious it's great, great, great! Good example I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExiTxs3G2jk

Yes it is. Tracks that can touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6agVu73-Hw (melancholic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGEnGDHPt4g (Not really sad, but that piano always graves deep touching the very right spot, one of my alltime favorite TOP tracks, the baseline, the vocal, the overall feeling, soooo good)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um71D65NlVc (don't like the ohoho, but the sound of the vocal in the verses always give me shivers of joy)

And many many others of course. The exetional thing about Italo is that every track has something special, unique, touching. It just doesn't have to be a complete perfect song, but it's still perfect in the end. I don't know many other genres where this is so present.
When you hear an Italo track you instantly know it's Italo, but on the other hand so many Italo songs sounds so totally different and unique, funny, sad, dancy, exciting, uplifting, fragile, melancholic, interesting,... the complete emotional spectrum and more

housesweethauss
the thing is to forget that italo is trash and take it in earnest - it will appear deep and devastating

You hit the nail on the head!
Not quite, not everything in Italo is trash, it all depends on your life circumstances, which songs you consider to be trash and which ones you like. Music is a very personal experience. The records I have collected are no trash, they are wonderful and extraordinaire.

Do you buy records?

vinyl.only
Not quite, not everything in Italo is trash, it all depends on your life circumstances, which songs you consider to be trash and which ones you like.

no i mean trash like being rated-b, kitsch, vulgar etc. there is some top level italo but the most is like transition between western and eastern european style (which i find really trashy)
i buy records but only ones i really love. in my country im gonna bankrupt if start collecting italo

wiz_of_oz
Good example I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExiTxs3G2jk

i love this song, it's so beautiful and vocals are perfect, those synth washes
no, in ranko example i meant how they sing about happiness, rolling, scratching in such desperate way onto this dramatic instrumental. true italo style

Kopriva
But it's so worth it since it's something that makes us happy.

Exactly. It really does

Wow, la bella Italia! Which part did you move to?

Found any italo disco-records? :))

Kopriva
I can't find any record shops here,

Often buy from sicilians people in our Marketplace or eBay, don't know about shops (very few but I believe still existing ).
Try to ask in italian forum Italia.
You're welcome.^____^.
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/group/766

Kopriva
Kopriva about 18 hours ago
The cool thing is that my city hasn't been updated since the 80s, so it's like walking through a song :)

Sounds cool already. You live in the far south and I heard that italo disco was more a northern kind of thing. Asking around a bit, like paskaloman said, could get you on the right track. And maybe you can find some at recordfairs or fleamarkets held there? Good luck!

Kopriva
maybe I'm looking in the wrong places

looks like there are only 2 stores in Palermo:
http://www.vinylhub.com/record-stores/Palermo-Italy
http://www.djhistory.com/forum/palermosicily

I'm curious... there is a lot of mafia in Palermo?

hysteric
I'm curious... there is a lot of mafia in Palermo?

https://triskel182.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/la-mafia-non-esiste.png

First on the left, Giulio Andreotti (R.I.P.)
"La Mafia Non Esiste" -----> Mafia does not exist
Second on the right, Silvio Berlusconi
"La Mafia C'è Ma Non Esiste"------> Mafia is there but does not exist

I heard that because of Government ties with Mafia it has taken them 20+ years to build the Palermo Expressway and is still not finished.

Damn! It is rainy and grey here in UK, but some italo after dark always helps