The Reason Why I Make Italo Disco Like This

[@JH-lo9ut]

Great stuff. Italodisco is just fun and silly. There's a certain aesthetic dissonance that comes from playing this happy, cheezy summer music in a dark, rough industrial setting, and that shit is gold.

[@MindreadingRainbow]

Subscribed* just by the title of the vid 🙌🩵

[@AnalogKitchen]

come into the chat! We have a new video running now

[@DarkSideofSynth]

Italo disco is life 👍

[@OctavioZox]

More like Hi-NRG then Italo Disco...enjoyed it thank you very much

[@AnalogKitchen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Sonikbytes]

Hopefully that will bring more recognition to the genre that deserves it being a predecessor to the current genres. I listen to Italo almost daily. It's cool with modern tech we can expand on that sound now but it would be tough to nail the vocal aspect of italo in today's world

[@SMOKINGROOVE]

Good video. I'm playing a lot of Italo at the moment. Big ups.

[@JayLunaSounds]

Hey man! I have absolutely loved this video, and it has made me really inspired and ready to get back to the studio. Thanks a lot!

[@AnalogKitchen]

Glad I could help!

[@andytuke8986]

This is such a great channel. I've been working on DaWless for only a few weeks after years of Ableton/Bitwig. Its so liberating and addictive. I've learnt so much in this space

[@JonasJudah]

There was a producer/arranger back in '79 Gino Soccio, he dropped a track that year called 'Dancer' that was a hybrid of Italian disco. Then his music style changed a little and composed 'Try it Out' in '81. Made it more funk/disco. If you haven't heard these tracks check them

[@dyjomat]

@@JonasJudah such a classic song. One of the greatest of all times. Look up Patrick Cowley also.

[@depingus4960]

Hi. Great video as always! I have a technical question. At 7:30 you adjusted your balance. If you're playing live, and all club PA's are in mono, why wouldn't you route all your hardware in mono to begin with? I feel like a head-to-toe mono live rig removes a bunch of complexity and issues that a stereo-to-mono sum might introduce (like surprise phasing). Am I completely missing some benefit of a stereo-to-mono sum here?

[@maikvanrossum]

Cool! Remembered me to one of the first vinyl albums I’ve bought. A continuous mix Hi-Energy dance music. I think it was by Ben Liebrand.

[@maikvanrossum]

And Ben Liebrand it is… rebought a mint copy last week 😅 Felt 12 again… nothing else can but music 🎶💊👌🏻

[@AnalogKitchen]

Very cool! He is also an originator

[@daniellelamein2855]

Nice

[@millenniumprincemusic]

That was very cool, looked like al lot of fun to do!😃

[@BlacksonAudioProd]

Wwhen i think iof Italo-Disco the first song that comes to mind is Holly Dolly and the flipside I'm ready by Kano

[@rastovcollie125]

Station happy station ..

[@aboriteko]

florian, this tracks amazing and can make jump. i frkn like it.. i was wondering about the early daft punk days in france and ive been listening various curated mixes, seems the french ppl at those days and before loved house music... and i remembermy french friends wich are much younger they gave me a glimpse of that archetipe of vibe. like fon and free..well i also remember way before that, a belgium friend fom 93 that came to my country we had like 18 and hewas crazy about techno from belgium. very peculiar guy most mature lookin than us. i belive the duo from france, where also inspired by this era.

[@hakutsuru1970]

I had alot of fun watching this, thanks!

[@viogitz]

🎉

[@lamborghinimiura7625]

I'm making similar stuff and I enjoyed hearing this. What about Stefano Zito?

[@Drrolfski]

Italo house did not come before house. That was Italo disco. Italo house arrived in the late eighties when house was already a thing that had flown over from the US. It died out after 1992.

[@maikvanrossum]

Yes, I think he unintended used the term ‘house’ twice. Title, splash screen and the rest of the video is about ‘disco’.

[@Deeper-sessions]

True! Big misconception here in this video

[@klinikat5313]

There was Acid House as well @italo scene around 88 - 90

[@FluxTrax]

But many of the italo releases were considered House in Chicgo in the early 80s before someone stole Jesse Saunders' "Mach - On & On" 12"

[@Drrolfski]

@@FluxTraxBefore Chicago there was no House and Italo music in itself was not considered House. Music coming from the Chicago Wharehouse and subsequent clubs was. And in the beginning, this could be both certain Italo disco, but also electronic music made by locals on the Roland TB-303, Roland TR-808, and TR-909.

[@dyjomat]

I hate to tell everyone but a vast amount of "Italo/Italian disco" is from Quebec in Canada.

[@crnkmnky]

🧐 such as?

[@AnalogKitchen]

?

[@dyjomat]

Megatone and Unidisc labels.

[@dyjomat]

And tons of one offs too.

[@AlexanderJung-zg7bz]

Hey this sounds like me … . Let me no if there is a market. I never released my tracks…. Because…. .

[@crnkmnky]

*Do it.*

[@jellycoding]

This hardware madness has to stop. If the vst plugins are the same just use that.

[@angstrm]

It's almost like his channel is called 'Analog Kitchen' for a reason

[@jellycoding]

@@angstrm Ye ye ...I know. It's just frustrating to see how more and more people buy all the hardware when it's so much smarter to just use vst. I grew up in the era where we used hardware and ran Cubase on Atari.

[@jellycoding]

@@angstrm But it's not that analog tho.

[@maikvanrossum]

It has nothing to do with madness or being smart… just preference and choice.

[@angstrm]

@@maikvanrossumand a question of budget. I prefer working on hardware rather then screens, too.