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:
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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Dec-11-2024 17:47
72hrpartyanimal
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West LA, California (where retired party people live)
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".
