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Raiders of the lost Arp

Raiders of the Lost ARP is Mario Pierro's solo project. He is also known as one half of Mat101 and Jollymusic. His professional career started in 1996 when he met Marco Passarani from Nature records and together they decided to start a series of projects: releases, radio-show and organization of parties. At the beginning the first musical project was called MAT101 and it was realized with Francesco de Bellis (aka Francisco) and Emiliano Tortora who lately decided to split from the band.

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Helen

There are more than one artist with name Helen[:
1) Italo-Disco group.
2) Armenian singer.
3) Filipino band playing live drum n bass with a bit of funk. 2)Helen was born in Tehran, Iran to an Armenian family. She demonstrated her vocal talents as a very young child, and at the age of 15, she was accepted to the prestigious Tehran Conservatory of Music. During her rigorous music education, Helen´s studies were focused on opera as well as classical piano. Shortly after graduation, Helen set off to travel, journeying extensively throughout Europe from 1985 to 1995.

Casco

Salvatore Cusato is an Italian dj producer who also records under Dj Discoking and Casco. Casco has been recording in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

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Neon Neon

Neon Neon is a collaboration between the artists Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys. They first worked together on Boom Bip's Blue Eyed in the Red Room album, released in 2005. Their debut album, Stainless Style was released on March 18th, 2008 through Lex Records. Their first single Trick for Treat is also out, and can be heard on their myspace page. The album "Stainless Style" was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize.

Hazell Dean

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She started her career in 1970s, but achieved a chart success in the 1980s working with the famous Stock Aitken Waterman team. Dean was elected three times as the 'Best Live Performer' by the Federation of American Dance Clubs (U.S.), and twice as a 'Best British Performer' by Club Mirror awards (UK). Her biggest hits, were "Whatever I Do" (A track originally recorded by Michael Prince called Dance Your Love Away, re-written by Stock Aitken Waterman because Hazell disliked the chorus) and "Who's Leaving Who" (a remake of the Anne Murray hit)...

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stock aitken waterman

os putos brothers

Raul Seixas

aleyster crowley bernardo de andrade

nova california seixas

Argeu california seixas

TheBestOfAleysterCrowley

California Rock Clube

argeu bernardo de andrade

ysabols 80s and new wave

hazell dean super zum tanzen

hi-NRG and italo disco

Sinnet

rakt over disc

Pete Waterman

video killed the radio star

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Fockewulf 190

Fockewulf 190 are an italian band which can be tagged as italo-disco, electro, synth-pop, formed in Milan in 1980. The band is named after a well-known aircraft model of the II World War. The original members were Victor Life on keyboards/synths, Dario Dell'Aere on vocals (who later hiked solo the italo-disco charts with the single Eagles in the Night. The band belonged to the italian underground new-wave / synth-punk stream that was taking place in those years. The influences of the beginnings were in particular John Foxx's Metamatic, Human League's Reproduction, and Gary Numan's Replicas.

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Fred Ventura

FRED VENTURA Real Name: Federico di Bonaventura Bonaventura is one of the more prolific singers and producers of Italo-disco. He also sang using pseudonyms like Flexx, but his greatest success has been with the Fred Ventura releases. Releases: Zeit (1984)
The years (go by) (1985)
Leave me alone (Time Records, 1985)
Night and day (Time Records, 1986)
Wind of change (Time Records,1986)
Leave me alone (Time Records,1986)
Night an day (Time Records,1987)

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Mirage

There are at least 14 bands named Mirage. 1) Mirage released numerous cover version megamixes of current pop hits during the eighties. Many of them were produced by Nigel Wright, sometimes together with Nigel Stock, John Davies & Robin Sellars. Mirage also had three vocalists that posed on the record-covers: Kiki Billy, Nicos Griffiths & Carlos Griffiths. 2) A cult hungarian new/darkwave band from the '80s.

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italians do it better

hi-NRG and italo disco

new-italo

x-mix II

canterbury tea time tunes

i love disco diamonds

UNDER CODE Production - Matina

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Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder (born Hansjörg Moroder on April 26, 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on new wave, techno and electronic music in general. Particularly well known are Donna Summer's disco hits produced by Moroder, including "Love To Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love". Moroder also produced a number of electronic disco hits for The Three Degrees.

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