Italodance Music Description

Italodance is essentially Eurodance (or Euro House) music produced in Italy. More specifically, it is a subgenre of House music that was popular in nightclubs during the 1990's in most of Europe, but particularly in Italy. Very formulaic, this style makes heavy use of synthesizers: strong basslines, pounding beats, with a set tempo anywhere between 120 and 160 beats per minute. A typical song will have male rappers sing the verses and female singers perform the chorus, but variations of that formula are frequent. Songs featuring heavy sampling are not rare. Instrumental releases were also fairly frequent.

While Eurodance was born out of cross-influence between various genres, including Hip-Hop, House, Disco and Hi-NRG, Italodance takes heavier inspiration from the 1980's Italo Disco, with several producers from the Italo Disco era crossing over, giving Italodance a distinct sound from Eurodance.

Italodance production covers the entire span of the 1990's, but reached its peak in 1993 up to 1996. During this era, production was absolutely massive; many records were being quickly produced, which leaded to inconsistent output quality between releases. Nevertheless, the Italodance wave created a fair amount of internationally successful acts, such as Whigfield, Ice MC, Corona, Da Blitz, U.S.U.R.A., Double You, Alexia, Gala and others. The genre is sometimes expanded to include late 90's/early 2000's acts such as Eiffel 65, the latter work of Gigi d'Agostino and Paps & Skar, which were also very successful overseas.

italodance真的能给人一种其他东西无论如何都给不了的力量。

我从《i say yeah》认识italodance，也意外发现我早在很多年前不知不觉的就开始听italodance（例如《Rien Ne Va Plus》、《Despre tine》等）。

图中可以看出，1990s和2000s这两个阶段发行的italodance数量最多，之后逐渐减少。

但是2020s刚过1/5，italodance发行数量还有上升空间。应该会超过2010s。

我直播放的italodance，以1990s和2000s时期的为主，算是italodance的一个peak。

如果还有推荐的italodance曲目可以发我邮箱或者是私信都行，我可以在直播的时候放。