Italo-disco

This Friday sees Main Room live performances by robo-electronicists Den Haan, the 80s-loving 90s-sampling Italo-disco groovers Nevada Base, plus new wavers Fiction Faction.

Clubs picks of the week 2012

The glitches remain and Alice Glass can still channel her inner banshee, but the sounds that linger here, often to beautiful effect, are gauzy synths and dark, Italo-disco bass throbs.

Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles 2010

Along with Portland's Glass Candy (who run the Italians Do It Better label) and a host of Scandinavian producers like Neon Workout, Heartbreak -- who also sing about robots -- are part of an on-going global resurgence of what's variously called Italo-disco, dirty disco, or space disco, much of which is played at a glacial pace reminiscent of early Kraftwerk.

Tim Mohr: New Reissues Prove Kraftwerk Is the Most Important Band Ever 2009

A Rave for Lazer Crystal Krautrock, Italo-disco, prog, noise, electro, and house come together in genuine body-moving music.

Chicago Reader 2010

Elusive Swedish Italo-disco artist Sally Shapiro returns with a remix EP from her recent album My Guilty Pleasure, as she did with her previous album Disco Romance.

Comments for BrightestYoungThings Ryan V. 2010

They set out in the early years of this decade to basically recreate Italo-disco, and while I cannot possibly disagree with that goal, the result was great songs flanked infrequently by boring songs.

LAist 2010

Elusive Swedish Italo-disco artist Sally Shapiro returns with a remix EP from her recent album My Guilty Pleasure, as she did with her previous album Disco Romance.

Comments for BrightestYoungThings Ryan V. 2010

A Rave for Lazer Crystal Krautrock, Italo-disco, prog, noise, electro, and house come together in genuine body-moving music.

Chicago Reader 2010

Glass Candy (Gobi, 10 p.m.): It's nouveau Italo-disco made not in Milan, but Oregon.

Fore, right! 2009

Retro, and it's more than Italo-disco, as they say in the interview embedded below.

Nothing But Green Lights 2009