Italorama Bar

Our first Panorama Bar night in November is a tribute to Italo Disco, that eternally young and dazzling pearl in the long history of electronic dance music. Never before and rarely since has hedonism sounded so innocent and cool at the same time as in the spaceship-like mega-discotheques on the Adriatic coast in the early to mid 80s. With its melodies often pushing the boundaries of kitsch, futuristic vocoder vocals, club-ready drum machine grooves and seductively chirping arpeggios, it was on the one hand a fully computerised, inexpensively produced echo of disco and in turn influenced the early pioneers of Chicago house music. To this day, there are numerous DJs and producers who also know how to put their own stamp on the Italo canon. With Franz Scala and Giulia Gutterer, two protagonists of the Berlin label Slow Motion can be heard in Italorama Bar, as well as Vale Budino and I-F, whose legendary Mixed Up In The Hague compilation triggered a major Italo revival more than 20 years ago.