Disco (1973): Disco was born in New York's Black and Latino clubs in the early 1970s, turning soul and funk into music built for the floor: a steady four-beat pulse,…
Euro Disco (1975): Euro disco was the European studio industry's answer to American disco, with Munich and Milan leading the way. Fewer musicians, more machines: Giorgio Moroder…
Hi-NRG (1978): Disco sped up and toughened for the gay clubs of San Francisco and London at the turn of the 1980s. Octave-pumped eighth-note bass becomes the genre's…
Italo Disco (1982): In the 1980s, Italy built a fully synthetic, melodic and sentimental strain of disco, often sung in a dreamed up English. Bright synthesizer arpeggios and dry…
Spacesynth (1983): Spacesynth is the instrumental, cosmic branch of italo disco, built on space imagery and science fiction album covers. Melodies play like film themes, with…
Nu-Italo (2006): Nu italo is italo disco reread by producers born after it, from the mid 2000s to today. The machines are the same ones, or faithful emulations of them, the…
Cosmic Disco (1979): Cosmic Disco is less a production style than a way of spinning records, born at the Afro-Cosmic Club near Verona in the late 1970s. Daniele Baldelli slowed…
Boogie (1979): Boogie is what American disco became after the backlash of 1979: slower, funkier, more electronic. The bass line moved from live players to keyboard…
Nu-Disco (2000): Nu-disco is the unabashed return of disco within 2000s production: part reissues, part edits, part brand new tracks played with today's tools. It keeps the…
Indie Dance (2002): Indie dance is where independent rock meets the dancefloor, first activated in the mid-2000s and reshaped in the 2010s into a darker, more melodic sound.…
Dark Disco (2017): Dark disco is a slow chug between 115 and 125 beats per minute, built on organic, often live played basslines and cold synths inherited from cold wave and…
Disco Dub (1976): Disco dub is the instrumental B-side of New York disco, the point where the sound engineer becomes the artist. Working under the direct influence of Jamaican…
Post-Disco (1980): Post-disco is New York between 1979 and 1983, after the Disco Demolition Night made the word disco commercially toxic while the music simply kept going under…
Disco Punk (1978): Punk bands playing disco rhythms: a first wave in New York between 1978 and 1982, a second wave in the early 2000s. The rhythm section stays danceable and…
