How did you discover ItaloDance?

I first discovered it thanks to O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei in 2004. That song was massive in Europe, and even got to number 3 in England!

I searched for more stuff from O-Zone...and like McW I had to download at the time, because I didn't know anywhere where I could buy this music. I heard the Prezioso remix of Despre Tine, and that kind of led me to Prezioso....then to Danijay, Gabry Ponte....and then I discovered IDN, and where to buy all of it from!

When i started listening to music it was mostly rock-music which i still enjoy, but in the late 90's when dance music and especially Aqua grew big, i was hooked. For a long time i didnt listen to anything but this happy dance music. My first experience with italo was when i heard the DJ Lhasa - Giulia Gabry mix in the radio, it was a really nice song but i didnt knew the title of it at that moment, so i kinda forgot it again.
Some weeks later at a party i heard the inevitable L'amour Toujours and from that moment my interest exploded though i didnt know exactly what genre it was. When i became a member of the music forum mymusic.dk i found a little genre called "italo" which was related to Gigi's style, that's how i learned the name.
I started to search the internet for information on this genre and found italozone.dk, IDN and m2o.it. The interest stayed and most of my music collection is italo today. Its no secret that i download because i cant afford all the great music, but when i found sites like americandisco.net i did buy the best of the best which i still do.

My first encounter with Italo was in the summer of '99.
I was in Italia, ravenna, near Rimini and heard gabry Ponte aswel Erika (I Don't know) in a local discotec..

Since then I am infected with the 'Italo-Virus'..

The first thing I did when I heard that music, was buying a few cd's for when I was back @ home. In the beginning it was only Gigi, Gabry Ponte and a few more.

Every year when I went back to Italia and bought the newest cd's.. Deejay Parade Compilation, M2O, Hot Party compilations, Hitmania compilations and so on.

After a few years I searched on the internet and did find IDN. I didnt know there where so much people that loved the same music. This was in the year 2005. After hanging round on IDN as a paying VIP member I found IDP.

And this is where I now am..

For me it started with eiffel 65. Got into eiffel 65 then got into italo with gabry and e65. Now later i'm hooked. It was a gradual step for all the artists.

Let's Begin,We Must Know Each Other

My FAVOTITE MUSIC Is Italo Dance,That Is The Best Style In The World,I Love "Italo Dance" Very Much Back In 1999,This Year was The Golden of Italo Dance With Greatest Artists Like Eiffel 65,Gigi D'Agostino,

Used To I Had Heared To The Uk Top 20 Singles Chart Every Week with 'Tim Smith' Showman On BBC Radio(Top Of The Pops).

My First Italo Song That I Listened On BBC Radio Was Blue( Da Ba Dee) By Super Italian Band "Eiffel 65",It Was Amazing For Me.3 weeks At Uk No.1 Singles Chart And No.2 In The Final Chart Of 1999.I Still Like It.

dano wrote:

Yeah, "Blue" was my favourite song when i was like... 6 or something. I think it was the first italo song I heard too, I still remember the video . It's probably the only italo song EVER thats showed on tv here in sweden x(! I've always been listening to italodance, just not as much as now .

In november 2005 a friend sent me the hardcore version of "Emi - Anima Libera". It became my favourite song, so i asked him to send me the original version, & then i fell in love .
In the begining of 2006 i found m2o, danijay & everything that goes with it , so i've only been listening to italo for a year, soon.

...& thats about it.

BLUE IS THE BIGGEST ITALO DANCE SONG 4 EVER!

Not Just Europe ,UK,ASIA............

It Was Entered On American Billboard Chart Too......

Remember No.6 For First Week!!!!!!!

surely... time flies when you have fun..

The story of italodance and me starts in 2001...
I didn't really listen to music at all.. mostly music from movies (star wars, indiana jones..) .. then suddenly one day, one of my classmate has taken a cd with her.. "tarari and tarara.. in the place to be.." "hmm.. this sounds interesting.. really good!.." i thought.. got the guy who made this song's name.. "something like Agostino" she told me... - got home and fired up napster and winmx.. then downloaded like hell.. hehe (yeah, i also didn't know how to get the records back then..).
First it was gigi.. then molella, then prezioso the gabry ponte then.. - suddenly i realized "this was it".. MY MUSIC! so i began to use all my money on records.. from italy... from germany.. from USA... From Greece.. anywhere! I sat many hours everyday/night in front of the screen and searched for italo records..
I figured out most new singles (back then..) were only released on 12", so i planned to buy a turntable...... and a mixer.... and a double cd-player.. so i began to mix records.. and i was really bad! - but i enjoyed it a lot!

...well that was my story:)

In 2001 when I heard L'amour Toujours, at my school. I since i have loved that genre. I today i produce it

Another way I got into italodance was those japanese dancing games! LOL but they had so many italo sounding songs. Part of it was eiffel 65 till I got bored then it was blissco then I discovered others and went on from there. Thats the v2.0 story.

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