Second spring for Electroclash (Page 10 of 17)

is the UK this divided about everything. yes

better dubstep than fake italo

Music in order to dance.

Ali Renault is watching you.

Diss away, Lixa-6, in the spirit of the thread

Im off to play some bungalo; breaks with underground Italo. 
Its all the rage in down town Dunfermline.

About the UK discovering italo: I always thought many italo disco-acts tried to do what much of u.k. synthpop-bands were doing in the 80s. Funny to see it's the other way round now.

On a whole, it's something that's going on since men began making music if you think of it. Doesn't matter if one country is a little later than the other or a second ot third wave is at hand. Who knows what good it may bring us? Just wait and see.

this whole italo disco versus england debate is totally surreal. tell me what italo exactly innovated over kim wilde other than sweaty dramatic male vocals and i'm hanging on your lips.

italo as a european version of disco is a total reductionist urban myth that seems to have its origin in the rationalizing of a commercial label someone put on the music to sell it as an "invention". Quite ironic to see everybody dismiss electroclash nurave  and every other hype yet defend italo so passionately while it had exactly the same origins.

heartbreak sounds nice. A bit over the top but that's what makes italo so much fun in the first place.

Although cliche it feels fresh as in innocent people that just discovered this music and fell in love with the awkward honosty of it. Hard to believe someone that knows this music for quite some years still gets mesmerized by fun fun.

Sounds more poser mentality to me but everybody needs to start somewhere and you need some street cred when releasing your album. props for them to turn their love into something that hopefully will reeducate them brits. it's direly needed!!

I peronally will forever be mesmerised by Fun Fun, especially the blond one on the 2nd LP hehe

he's just being filmed playing the record, it didn't look like he was under some kind of hypnotic spell to me...

and I'm not sure what you mean about an italo vs UK debate. they're connected things, it's just the UK wasn't aware of italo as a genre until relatively recently. I don't see a cause for conflict there.

no well what i meant is the british werent aware of something that was an imitation of, or to put it more mildly: "deeply inspired by" british synthpop in the first place...exactly what scarface mentioned. perhaps not so much surreal as ironic, then?

absolutely! the irony is from the few original artists I've actually spoken to that they are extremely British inspired... for instance Casco loved ABC and Thompson Twins, Fockewulf were deeply into Bowie, Human League and John Foxx (as well as Japan, Ultravox, etc), Ventura was into New Order, etc... casco also assured me that maximum 50% of any music that actually got played in clubs in Italy in the old days was Italian, the other 50% was British/American, and he reckoned it would have been much higher if imports hadn't cost so much at that point. Only goes to show it's always been a mixture...

so it is a joke?

it's called postmodern culture darkling