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Alongside his brother, Michaelangelo, he spearheaded the sound in the late 1970s

One of the founders of Italo disco, Carmelo La Bionda, has passed away. He was 73. According to a report by Italy24 News, La Bionda...

Italo disco’s eternal evolution

Italo disco is everywhere again. But what does Italo even mean today, and is it at risk of being diluted into a catch-all term for anything with an '80s disco sparkle? Joe Roberts dives into the genre's history, and chats to some of its new devotees and longstanding champions about its ever-evolving sound

It now sounds like a DJ mix of the most widely-known Italo disco classics, but when it was released in 1999, I-F’s ‘Mixed Up In...