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Italo Hammers: 10 Bad-Boy Gems of Italian Disco

A number of dance songs were released in Italy in the late 1970s and early 80s, but only a handful of them can truly qualify as Italo "hammers." These up-tempo tunes have driving synths, unintelligible lyrics and bubblegum choruses and instantly cause cheers to erupt on the dance floor when they hit the decks. The hammers are some of the most well-known from the Italo disco canon--far from being obscure within the genre, they are the songs that aficionados will spoon-feed to new recruits as their entry into the world of Italo disco.

...read the rest at Italo Hammers: 10 Bad-Boy Gems of Italian Disco on Splice Today.

By Lina on March 27, 2009 10:14 PM

Another article

I'm not only dead sexy, I'm also prolific.

Check out my interview with Speculator on Infinite State Machine.

Speculator's an interesting dude who is working on a lot of music projects that you probably haven't heard of yet. But there's no time like the present, eh?

By Lina on March 24, 2009 12:02 AM

City of destiny, or why I keep going to Holland

Check out my latest piece on Splice Today: West Coast Knows How to Party: In search of italo disco in Holland, the contemporary mecca of European dance music.

By Lina on March 9, 2009 5:21 PM

Rebel Girls, etc.

My latest piece on Splice Today about that time when I worried I might be a lesbian but then it turned out I was just listening to too much Bikini Kill: Riot Grrrl, Then and Now

By Lina on February 27, 2009 1:15 AM
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