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Italo house is a form of house music popular in Italy, Britain and United States in the late 1980s to 1995 that fuses house and Italo disco. The main musical characteristic is its use of (predominantly electronic) piano chords in a more lyrical (yet still "clunky") form than classic Chicago House records. The best known example is Black Box's "Ride On Time". The genre has two distinguishing factors in that it often borrows liberally the lyrical hooks from other compositions (usually by pairing phrases from unrelated compositions), and its Italian lyrics are often translated to a gibberish form of English. While the 49ers records would display the best example of the former, the latter is epitomized by the Black Box record "Everybody Everybody". The gibberish lyrics (whether sampled together or in the translated variety) have a vaguely impressionistic charm which has stuck with listeners and proven over time to be the most defining element in the genre as it cycles through musical fads ranging from disco to drum and bass. Italo House was preceded by a movement called Italo Disco (which also featured less than perfect English grammar: and featured bad pronunciation as well with its mostly unknown European singers). Whereas Italo Disco was defined more by its early use of electronica and HiNRG (the musical part), Italo House is defined mostly by its lyrical oddities (the words). Groups that spoke and wrote native English would start to imitate the goofiness of Italo lyricism in order to capitalize on the market (and sometimes out of pure admiration for the genre).
[edit] Artists
- Alex Gaudino
- 49ers
- Black Box (band)
- Cappella
- X-static
- DJ Lelewel
- DJ Pierre Feroldi
- DJ Professor
- El Chico
- Gino Latino (aka Jovanotti)
- Gino Latino II (aka Giacomo Maiolini)
- Francesco Zappala'
- MIG-29
- Franco Moiraghi
- Starlight
- Lee Marrow
- Albertino
- Fargetta
- Molella
- Joe T Vannelli
- Mauro Picotto
- Claudio Coccoluto
- Alex Natale
- Prezioso
[edit] Record labels
- BCM Records
- Discomagic Records
- Groove Groove Melody
- Italian Style Production
- Kutmusic
- Out
- Spectra
- Strike Record
- Takuma Records
- Underground
- ZYX Music
