STYLEGUIDES » chaz jankel http://www.styleguides.tv Music Classics Digitally remastered Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Italo Disco ‘74-’83 http://www.styleguides.tv/italodisco/ http://www.styleguides.tv/italodisco/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:14:08 +0000 styleguides http://www.styleguides.tv/?p=58 italo disco received it’s stigmata of bad taste for several good reasons: cheesy hooks, plastic sound signatures, neon record covers, awful english etc. nevertheless the genre gave birth to some obscure gems and essential dance classics leaving footprints behind in pop worldwide.

one of the true styleguides in this compilation is adriano celentano’s ‘prisencolinensinainciusol’ – not only because it was the first ‘rap’ record made in europe (1974!), but also because of it’s classy music video:

]]> http://www.styleguides.tv/italodisco/feed/ 0 Electro ‘81-’83 http://www.styleguides.tv/electro/ http://www.styleguides.tv/electro/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:25:27 +0000 styleguides http://www.styleguides.tv/?p=65 electro music in it’s pure form is primarily about tr808 drum machine fetishism. several synthesizers helped start a new music genre (dx7, tb303, tr909, kpr77 etc), but tr808 seems to be the most prominent of them. if time allows there will be further styleguide compilations for early 80s electro r’n'b and electro rap.

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