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[Don't forget the ALF song and the b-side "Cruising on Melmac highway" or something a true cosmic rarity!!!
Is that the Art of Noiseish track?
Very Naaldwijkish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd_bWsiFll0
nevermind
Skeletronics -Your love is allright http://www.discogs.com/Skeletronics-You … ase/190082
Very Naaldwijkish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd_bWsiFll0
Lol, Naaldwijkish 
Zie je later in 't Teejater
Not really italo and pretty lame:
http://www.discogs.com/Danny-Boy-Discom … ase/679994
It is however a sort of an ode to italo and disco on the dutch radios.
someone mentioned this in last purchases, i discovered it a couple of months ago.
i feel love, the dutch way 
more hi nrg, but very nice 'n trashy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7b7gKTFdmk[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGcR91RO4B0
jesus wat een sloot met kutmuziek zeg..
Bwah, doet me altijd aan mijn kinderjaren denken. I guess they are guilty pleasures of mine then
Isn`t Nu Shooz Dutch too? bloosmodus aan - I have all their records... 
But ITALO, no way.
Freek wrote:jesus wat een sloot met kutmuziek zeg..
Bwah, doet me altijd aan mijn kinderjaren denken. I guess they are guilty pleasures of mine then
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this kind of stuff never really did it for me, altough there are some exceptions.. those adams & fleisner guys did some good productions, but I was never a italo/eurodance fan...
In my terminology, as a puritan buying Italo since 1982, Italo needs to have an SIAE stamp to be classified as such, but i have no problems relating Dutch, Belgian, German, Canadian etc. stuff to Italo with an insight knowing whats Italo and whats related...... well, of course Mai Tai and alike is a different story, but for me, being an Italo puritan only strengthened a curiosity to listen to related stuff back in the days. Today things might be different, but still im curious at heart
I thought it would be interesting to debate, and saw the Dutch "Italo" as an interesting rotating point.... I think those who know/want to can differentiate when talking about Adams & Fleisner, Mai Tai etc. and the real deal...
In my terminology, as a puritan buying Italo since 1982, Italo needs to have an SIAE stamp to be classified as such.
The term Italo is invented by a german nothing pure about that.
This is pretty much 'The' Dutch Italo if there's any.
And its an awesome track!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MteEdKHaTg[/youtube]
And what about Koto? Its Michiel van der Kuy partly. He also did some eurodance stuff.
Gina - Let Me Free (theres a way more cheesy vocoder version as well but cant find it on youtube, its great). He's also Laserdance and others. And Primero - Oh Que Calor
The term Italo is invented by a german nothing pure about that.
It might be Bernhard Mikulski invented the phrase Italo, but the records he put that stamp on was Italian at that time... i am aware he called a lot of other stuff Italo later on
Anyway... We all have our own terms more or less, why i referred to, "in my terminology"...
I see DJ's playing at Italo parties playing Hi-nrg, Euro, Eurobeat, Canadian disco, German, Dutch, French... even Patrick Cowley and Bobby O... and calling it all Italo....
Well, what interested me was what the Robots here would consider Dutch Italo
no italo, but i like this nederdisco track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT40Iwi2SPk
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT40Iwi2SPk[/youtube]
that fox the fox track rocks btw!
chaplin band's il veliero, especially that 12 minute ''nothing happens for 8 minutes'' 12" version is sooo good. but the rest by them is crap..
I really like Madmen's Discotheque. Other tracks are not so good indeed.
Or maybe LUV as ingenius proto - italo cosmic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EieCc7TYkOs (cosmic italo dude to another one "yooo mannn check out that bassss" yeahh man i am going to make an edit duuuude"
This song is just cool because of the great tv-show it was featured in: "Het is weer zo laat" van Wim T. Schippers.
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a lot of this dutch stuff (x-ray connection, digital emotion, master genius, etc etc) is credited by adams & fleisner, a pseudonym for a production team called cat music. they started in the 70's as a glam rock band, but then started a production company that did anything that was popular, including italo/ hi nrg at the time. but they also did crappy mainstream pop, dutch schlagers, smurf songs and are responsible for Rubberen Robbie, taking the piss ot of dutch pop songs. they lived in a commune in a flat not far from my uncle's house in leiden (in de merenwijk).. their cat music studio in rijnsaterwoude still exists today..
hmm, rubberen Robbie vs Digital Emotion.. thats some contrast. Do you know where I can find some more info 'bout that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qo1__kbwrA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsWcSULGxPs
That's also done by the cat music guys.
Peter Slaghuis! As a kid I always loved his 'Bond van Doorstarters' entries. Haven't heard this song in ages. He wasn't even a bad singer/rapper, not at all embarrassing.
Yeah, Adams & Fleisner recalls loads of memories...
Personally i think its interesting to dig into the Dutch treasure trunk now and then, OK, its not Italo, but re-discovering stuff like Mai Tai, Fox the Fox etc. from the same era and with its own unique character.... Not to forget Michael Van der Kuy who is probably a chapter himself along with Erik van Vliet, Rob van Eijk, Huib Shippers and Edwin van der Laag...
Erik van Vliet never made 1 track, he was only the owner of the studio van the hotsound shop and the labels
and is very know here as the man who used the first wurgcontracten for producers in the dutch dance scene
of course i know more stories about Erik (aka the lombardoni from the low lands)
but also i kinda like him......;)
And what about Koto? Its Michiel van der Kuy partly. He also did some eurodance stuff.
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The Michel vd Kuy Koto btw was pure exploitation it had really nothing to do with original Koto from italy who were Anfrando Maiola and Stefano Cundari...I don't know exactly what was going on but it wasn't very kosher. It was like Ed Starink who made covers on the synthesizer greatest CD's.
apart from buckingham palace (which is so over the top italo inspired it becomes good again) i have yet to hear something decent in this thread...all that hi-nrg eurodisco crap is really getting on my nerves.
ok risque is somewhat decent but nothing too spectacular.
let's face it, only italians know how to make good italo.
Not the best, still dutch.
LASERDANCE - Fear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA6kVw8O1cE
Spargo - You and me (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgcKQ3eemP4
Maywood - Late At Night 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcXdN4duC3Y
GINA - What's Wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRn1GSRiezU
I love that Vanessa track
Erik van Vliet never made 1 track, he was only the owner of the studio van the hotsound shop and the labels
and is very know here as the man who used the first wurgcontracten for producers in the dutch dance scene
of course i know more stories about Erik (aka the lombardoni from the low lands)but also i kinda like him......;)
Quite interesting... I know from a friend at Combined forces that Van der Kuy had a/some hits in Asia and became quite rich, but i never heard about the Vliet story.....
Thanks Vunk
@ Smackos, afaik, Mikulski bought the rights to the name/brand Koto along with the entire Memory catalogue when the crisis kicked in late 1988... Mikulski just ordered Van der Kuy to make some hits and capitalize as much as possible on the name/brand...."Koto plays synthesizer greatest" was just the first step demolishing the name/brand (imo)
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