STYLEGUIDES » giorgio moroder 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 Death Disco ‘79-’91 http://www.styleguides.tv/deathdisco/ http://www.styleguides.tv/deathdisco/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:11:40 +0000 styleguides http://www.styleguides.tv/?p=54 this genre has been given many different names such as ebm, industrial or darkwave, but the song ‘death disco’ from public image ltd probably sums it up best. poetic, dark and moody synthesizer gothics with touches of punk, new wave and disco inbetween.. you have to be in the mood for this.

the bonus track of this styleguides compilation not available on amazon is throbbing gristle’s ebm classic ‘hot on the heels of love’ from 1979:

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