Catchy dreamy pop song with reinterpreted 80s genre, filled up with retro synthesizers, guitars and his own singing (2008).

Cool reinterpretation of 80s Italo Disco genre.

New Order melded post-punk and electronic dance, and became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the 1980s[citation needed]. Though the band were shadowed by the legacy of Joy Division in their first years, their immersion in the New York City club scene of the early 1980s introduced them to dance music.

Dan Hartman song ‘Relight my fire’ (1984) utilizing the vocals of Lolly Peterson and Anneline Malebo. Malebo was the singer in the Patrick van Blerk outfit Joy. They had an international hit with ‘Paradise Road’ in 1980. Sadly Anneline Malebo died of Aids related complications in 2002. The song received mediocre response and featured on some compilation albums including South-African ‘High-Energy Double Dance Vol.3’.

The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1990, founded by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons. Englishman Alan Parsons met Scotsman Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1974. Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be, had recently engineered Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and had produced several acts for EMI Records. Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist; he also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

When it was time to choose the first single from the album The Final Countdown, Tempest suggested the song "The Final Countdown". Originally the band had never planned to release the song as a single, and some members wanted "Rock the Night" to be the first single. "The Final Countdown" was written to be an opening song for concerts, and they never thought it would be a hit. But when their record company Epic Records suggested that it should be the first single, the band decided to release it.

The band was formed in the early 1980s in Cardiff, Wales by Hyde, Smith and Alfie Thomas. It originally had only a graphic 'squiggle' for a name. In 1983, after recruiting John Warwicker and drummer Bryn Burrows (formerly of the Fabulous Poodles), they got a recording contract with, CBS Records, and met the label's insistence on a pronounceable name, with the compromise that the squiggle was pronounced Freur.

Eddie Money (born Edward Joseph Mahoney, March 21, 1949) is an American rock singer-songwriter who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 hits and platinum albums. His musical style is characterized by his recognizable vocals and memorable melodies, and his numerous MTV music videos during the 1980s.

Mr Flagio's original 12'' version'' of ''Take A Chance'' is the absolute essence of Italo featuring phased vox and an immense bassline.

A second Sherbs album, Defying Gravity, followed in 1981, but failed to produce a single that charted in either the US or Australian top 100. However, the band did chart again on Billboard's Rock Tracks Chart with the album cut "We Ride Tonight". Staying on the chart for 16 weeks the track reached number 26 in June of 1982. The track's mild AOR success was not enough to ignite album sales in the US, though, as Defying Gravity only reached #202 on the album charts.

The band had numerous hits, including Take Me Up, Mirage, Delirio Mind, Penguin's Invasion, Plus Plus and Money Runner. The group's single Disco Band (1985) was a major hit in Germany and was sampled on Scooter's 2007 hit single Lass Uns Tanzen, and their song Penguin's Invasion continues to be popular, appearing on various Italo-disco compilations and retrospectives.

Silent Circle is a 1980s italo disco band from Germany, known for its hits “Touch In the Night”, “Stop the Rain” and “Moonlight Affair”. Since the early 1980s, they have been frequent visitors to charts in Germany as well as other European countries. Silent Circle has always worked with Bernd Dietrich, an acclaimed German producer and publisher who has brought the band media attention and helped to propel them and their music to success.

During the first years of the 1980s, the "disco sound" began to be phased out, and faster tempos and synthesized effects, accompanied by guitar and simplified backgrounds, moved dance music toward the funk and pop genres.

One of the most known italo-disco bands from the 80’s. The members were Vince Lancini and Franz Felleti. The group released several popular singles such as Delirio Mind (memorable since it starts with a tongue-in-cheek opera style vocal solo) and Disco Band (which starts with coughing).

This was a one-off success for David Christie when 'Saddle Up' was released in the UK in June 1982. It was a sleeper hit during the Summer that year before eventually peaking at no. 9 in late September. He had a couple of other releases but these failed to even chart.

Fingers Inc. are Larry Heard (aka Mr. Fingers), Robert Owens and Ron Wilson. In 1988 The Band released a Single called “Can you feel it” - an all time Chicago House classic.

During the first years of the 1980s, the "disco sound" began to be phased out, and faster tempos and synthesized effects, accompanied by guitar and simplified backgrounds, moved dance music toward the funk and pop genres.
In addition, Dance music during the 1981–83 period borrowed elements from blues and jazz, creating a style different from the disco of the 1970s. This emerging music was still known as disco for a short time, as the word had become associated with any kind of dance music played in discothèques.