It started here for me (Im sure it started a couple years earlier for sure)



searching through the r/d/h section of beatport it seems this style has grown/evolved and is now considered trance?

there are some pretty sweet new tunes that fall into this bracket - anyone else enjoying it?

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This has been going on since long before Covid. It was kind of a natural progression on from the cosmic disco stuff of the early 2010s - shovel a load of pills down Inspector Norse's throat and you're pretty much there. If you look at my tracklists from 2018-2021 I was dabbling in some of this stuff, albeit probably not as maximalist as that Boiler Room set. One or two of the guys I DJ with at our Kibosh night still play a lot of Italo-influenced stuff.

Few things I've played out - none of these are particularly new:

Terr - Tales Of Devotion (Dub)


Alex Niggemann - Love Music People


Cooper Saver - Pacific Visions

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Just get yourself a Giorgio Moroder rhythm, come up with a hook that's the most triumphant thing you can muster on a dated-sounding synth, and you got yourself Italo Disco. Doesn't seem like too hard a thing to go through repeated cycles of retro-popularity.

I wonder if Todd In The Shadows covering Tarzan Boy will give the genre a little extra nudge of appreciation:

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There are few artists that label their sound as "melodic techno" or "melodic house". To me, it sounds all like trance. Good trance, but trance nonetheless. I read a cool quote from AvB that said "You have guys who are afraid to call their music #Trance, so they call it melodic #Techno".

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