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Italian
House Music Scene
If we go back to the late 1980's, the term
Italo House was first used to
describe a type of house music popular in
Italy. Italo House
can be described as a combination of house
music and Italo Disco. What defined
Italo House was the use of piano
chords that were mainly electronic, with
vocals. One example that is always used to
illustrate this is Blackbox's Ride on
Time.
 Since
then, the House Music Scene is for a large
part made up of Italian Dj's, and Italian
organised parties and club nights the world
over, in particular Italy, London and
Ibiza. The sound of Italian House Music
today can vary, but tribal, minimal and
electronic styles are very popular on the scene.
The Italian
House Music Scene and clubbing lifestyle is
popular throughout Italy, with the
House Clubbing Capital
at Riccione, on Italy's Adriatic Coast.
(Italy's Ibiza). It is also followed in
Ibiza, where there are many Italian
 organised
parties and Dj's, for example the
Made in Italy
party at Amnesia
on Friday nights, and the renowned
CircoLoco at
DC10 on Monday mornings. There is
also a huge Italian party scene in London,
where we have such nights as for example Vertigo,
at The Cross
nightclub, (with resident Dj's David
Piccioni and Micky Guy). Other parties that
are not necessarily Italian organised but
feature Italian Dj's regularly and have
predominantly Italian crowd and followers of
the scene, are The
Players at AKA and
DTPM at
Fabric on a Sunday, to name but a
few.
The followers
of the Italian House Music Scene can be both
Italian and non Italians, but either way,
the attitude remains the same: seriously
stylish and always up for it!
Check out
Vertigo
website
(photos:
above left Clubbing in Riccione,
photo bottom Clubbing at BoraBora,
Ibiza) |
