Italo

The term Italo-disco wasn't coined until around 1985, when a German called Bernhard Mikulski, who ran the

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But I also didn't have a phone, so I had to run across the interstate, jump a fence, walk a wet gully, hit a factory and beg the use of the phone to call Italo to tell him I was stranded, had groceries and needed a wrecker to pick the truck up and take it to my mechanic, Rick's.

Peter Gorman: Car Trouble Took My Daughter A Step Closer To The Real World Peter Gorman 2011

But I also didn't have a phone, so I had to run across the interstate, jump a fence, walk a wet gully, hit a factory and beg the use of the phone to call Italo to tell him I was stranded, had groceries and needed a wrecker to pick the truck up and take it to my mechanic, Rick's.

Peter Gorman: Car Trouble Took My Daughter A Step Closer To The Real World Peter Gorman 2011

Along with Portland's Glass Candy (who run the Italians Do It Better label) and a host of Scandinavian producers like Neon Workout, Heartbreak -- who also sing about robots -- are part of an on-going global resurgence of what's variously called Italo-disco, dirty disco, or space disco, much of which is played at a glacial pace reminiscent of early Kraftwerk.

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Called Italo, it will run its first trains between Milan and Rome.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew English 2011

Called Italo, it will run its first trains between Milan and Rome.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew English 2011

It's a kind of Italo-Albanian recipe and Rosa, like many cooks I know, doesn't give precise quantities, so we can all have fun working them out for ourselves!

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The Austrian producer and musician teams with the N.Y.C.-based band for this old-school house/Italo-disco-inspired track.

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"More guys today are wearing a tuxedo that fits—even older actors are paying attention to this," said Calvin Klein menswear design director Italo Zucchelli.

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There's no live set planned, but the one-time Victoria Hesketh will be regaling the crowd with her vintage Italo rarities, while sometime Little Boots producer James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco is the headline DJ.

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