Mezzoforte is an instrumental funk fusion-band from Iceland. Their greatest hit was "Garden Party" in 1983.
The band is named after the traditional musical term "mezzoforte", an instruction to play "half-loudly".........Some great Jazz Funk tracks on this album with some tight vocals mixed with some lovely instrumentals.

Metro Area are a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani.
Geist grew up in Wayne, New Jersey,[3] while Jesrani is from upstate New York.[2] Both arrived at electronic music through their interest in rock music (Geist through the electronic sound effects he noticed in progressive rock songs, Jesrani through the electronic introduction to Rush's song Tom Sawyer, which he says "led me into Devo, Thomas Dolby")[2] and both had been producing music independently since the mid-90s.[1] Before forming Metro Area, Geist attended Oberlin (where he founded his record label, Environ, in 1995) and was responsible for a number of highly regarded solo releases, while Jesrani began his production career as half of the groups Essa 3 and Acronym City.[1] The two met through internet mailing lists[1] in 1995 or 1996.[4] After collaborating under the names "Sage."[1] and "Phenom,"[4] they began Metro Area in 1998,[4] releasing four 12"s on Environ under that name between 1999 and 2001.[1] Edits of six tracks from these releases later turned up on their 2002 self-titled album.[1] Both Jesrani and Geist are DJs as well as producers; in 2002 and 2003 they hosted a monthly residency at APT in the Meatpacking District, called Party Out of Bounds.

Hall & Oates is a pop music duo made up of Daryl Hall and John Oates. The act achieved its greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul." Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine & J. Scott McClintock write[1], "at their best, [Hall & Oates's] songs were filled with strong hooks and melodies that adhered to soul traditions without being a slave to them by incorporating elements of new wave and hard rock."

Gino Vannelli- Wild Horses

Spandau Ballet

DISCO 1984

from the album "S.O.S. III"

Italo-Disco Rare

Italo Disco

Chromeo's video for Fancy Footwork

Ken Laszlo, born as Gianni Coraini, is an Italodisco singer who commenced his music career in the 1980s.

Ken started his musical interests early in the '80s by playing and singing in discos and clubs. He was interested in music at a young age, but had his first big hit in Europe in 1984 with the single Hey Hey Guy