Italo disco is a very wide term that refers to various types of European disco and pop-styled dance music, that evolved during the early 1980s in
Italy,
Germany,
Spain and other parts of
Europe. Italo Disco music has a distinct, futuristic and spacey sound which was created using
synthesizers,
drum machines, and
vocoders. During the
1980s, the term "Italo-disco" used in Europe to describe all the non UK-based dance productions, including some
Canadian ones. In the
UK and the
USA, Italo-disco was virtually unknown to the mainstream consumer and existed only underground.
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