How did you discover ItaloDance?

omg!
I haven't narrated my history about italodance discover!

Well... I'll begin there...

Everything has begin when I was 4 or 5 years old (but also instinctively) because my brother was a DJ that played mostly 90's eurodance music (like Alexia, Ice MC and Da Blitz) then my brother has tought me that music is called "Dance music".
Then I was listening this music into the compilations he bought (Deejay Parade compilations) and I've liked this genre, because it was melodic and listenable also @ home.
One day, when I was 8, I've discovered another kind dance music by listening at a radio, a "strange" song that sings "i'm blue da ba dee...", i've tought myself "this is very strange song, but I like it". Then when I've listenen another CD compilation (Euro Dance volume 1 mixed by Gigi d'Agostino), i've listenen again that song, and I falled in love with this genre. (Altrough I haven't called it Italo Dance, just Dance music)
Then I've discovered the real world of Dance music: my brother an evening was playing at a local club these records: was really a great experience!
Then, in the 2004, I've started to know another kind of music: House Music, and I've noted that was a way different than Dance music (before I've thinked was the same thing, but my brother has tought "this genre is more different than Dance music because the sounds are another thing and less annoying than Commercial Dance music". (2004 was the moment when Italo Dance was being replaced by House music)
And there I've started to know that Dance music genres are different.
House music wasn't really my genre (was a waydifferent than my original throught of Dance music) so i've searched, in the 2005, another music genres, and I've discovered Hands Up, so I've loved it because has the same sounding of 140 bpm Dance music. And I've tought myself "Commercial Dance music is still produced".
But I was deluded by the local radios, because they was playing in that moment only House and Elektro House music (and was also starting the Minimal/TekHouse scene)
So... in the 2006 was all by House and Hands Up music.
(Note that in the 2004-2007 era I hadn't much interest to Dance music, because this was the era that I was writing my own songs and training in music production)
In the 2006, I've also discovered Lento Violento genre, by listening the Gigi compilation on the home of a my friend.
But... in the 2007 I've rediscovered the original dance genre by listening a compilation called "New Dance Hits 2007" and by listening some songs of Sanny J, Luca Zeta and also the Italo Dancer 2007 remix.
So I've searched for Sanny J over the web, and I've found a great web-radio station, called IDN, so I've actually know the music that I've loved for all those years, was called ITALO DANCE.
Then I've meet all the italodance fans, and know also other fans by subscribing to IDP (I remember that Seb tought me that @ IDN-M, the November of 2007)
Well... Then you may know the current story

Interesting how most people got into italo on Eiffel65's behalf

I first discovered Italodance when I was on holiday in Lido Di Jesolo in 1998/9 (can't remember exactly and I heard Prezioso - Tell Me Why CONSTANTLY on the radio, I didn't know the artist or anything at the time. And I went in to a record shop called "Music Farm" and said in VEEEEEERY broken Italian if they know the song and I sang part of it, lol!! and they told me the artist is Prezioso....then when I got back from holiday we (me & my parents) got home at like 2/3am and the first thing I did was look on the internet on my good old 56k modem to find it and download it the rest is history.

I also have a good friend who's originally from Italy, Noff. We used to listen to Radio Deejay together and Radio Italia Network good times!

I LOVE Italo Dance, it's so great

Some of my favourite tracks:-

Neja - Time Flies
Gigi D'Agostino - Star
Naive - Looking 4 Happiness
Basement Three - Everytime I Say
Paps N Skar - You Want My Love
Prezioso - Tell Me Why (of course! lol)

i started to listen it from 3 months( i think )...i was searcing dj matrix's songs in roxdancerox's italodance channel (youtube); there i listened 'voglia di dance'. after that i started to listen italodance music
( my english is not good :/ )

Welcome to IDP Gilbert

For me it all started in the summer of '99. 3 guys from Italy called Eiffel65 came with a single Blue (da ba dee) and I was crazy about it. Then I started searching for more songs from Eiffel65 and found the album Europop which I bought. From then I started collecting Italodance. I'm very proud having my Italodance collection. I think I got over 1000 different songs from A.C. One to Ztera.

Maybe ItaloBrothers will be... if they release any italo that is...

btw, I heard Stamp On The Ground in gymclass today

dano wrote:

Maybe ItaloBrothers will be... if they release any italo that is...

btw, I heard Stamp On The Ground in gymclass today

Great!

ups im not finish... and that i laeske played that for my i said to him can i get some home with me and he said nah! buy it..and i did buyed some tracks on juno and now im more into it then i startet in 2008 november i think The End

yeah i forgot hihi

my friends told me about it, good site you've got!

ENGLISH:
My history with the italodance begins like this:
I never in my life had heard italodance, neither knew that there was a genre of music that made you feel tremendous emotion. before I met this beautiful genre of music I loved to rock in general NIRVANA, METALLICA, MARILYN MANSON, THE DOORS, JOE SATRIANI were my favorites and some groups in Spanish.

My first encounter with this genre that I love so much and who always will defend and take you in my ears and my heart goes back to 2001.
It was an afternoon in which I was walking down the street, pass by small shops of my city, in every store is different listening to loud radios, but I call more attention and which had the need to go to find out where that pretty resounding song with the melody to which I put all the creeps and feeling other emotions to the point of feeling a lump in my throat of tremendous emotion, happiness .... was a radio at that time was very popular in my city "Eco" the name of the radio, and my luck at the end of the song the radio announcer mention the name of this, I remember him saying so "vuela conmigo de GIGI DAGOSTINO" i had the need to write down what he had heard but did not have a pen or anything, so try to record the name and then to look on the Internet.

At night I went to an internet near to my house, "which at that time did not have an internet connection at my house" and try to remember all I could give was... yiyi Lagostina - vuela conmigo"
to start I did not know that gender was the one who had heard and even less that the person I believe that great song was a male, since the Person that the singer was a girl, I fell in love with that little voice so cute. my surprise when I discovered all over the internet. and that is why for my GIGI is a myth. is the teacher of teachers as always and told the friends who I met with the same taste for this genre.

ps. I had already heard eiffel 65, listened too on MTV but I do not call much attention or interest. I know all this thanks to you big "GIGI D'AGOSTINO"

ESPAÑOL:

Mi historia con el italodance comienza asi:
yo nunca en mi vida habia escuchado italodance, tampoco sabia que existia un genero de musica que te hacia sentir tremendas emociones. antes de conocer este bello genero de musica a mi me encantaba el rock en general NIRVANA, METALLICA, MARILYN MANSON, THE DOORS, JOE SATRIANI eran mis favoritos y algunos grupos en español.

Mi primer encuentro con este genero que amo tanto y al que defendere siempre y lo llevare en mis oidos y en mi corazon se remonta al año 2001.
Fue una tarde en la cual yo iba caminando por la calle, pase por unas pequeñas tiendas de mi ciudad donde vendian ropa y esas tiendas tenian musica. cada tienda con musica diferente pero la que me llamo mas la atencion y con la cual tenia la necesidad de ir a buscar donde sonada esa linda cancion con esa melodia que hacia que se me ponga todos los pelos de punta y sentir demas emociones hasta el punto de llegar a sentir un nudo en mi garganta de tremenda emocion, felicidad .... fue una radio que para ese entonces era muy popular en mi ciudad "Eco" el nombre de la radio, y para mi suerte al termino de la cancion el locutor de la radio menciono el nombre de esta: yo recuerdo que dijo asi "vuela conmigo de gigi dagostino" tenia la necesidad de anotar lo que habia escuchado pero no contaba con un boligrafo ni nada, asi que trate de grabarme el nombre y luego poder buscarlo por el internet.

En la noche me fui a una cabina de internet mas cercana de mi casa "que por ese entonces no contaba con una conexion de internet en mi casa" trate de recordar y en lo unico que pude dar era "yiyi lagostino - vuela conmigo"
para empezar yo no sabia que genero era el que habia escuchado y ni mucho menos que la persona que creo esa gran cancion fuese un varon, ya que la pesona que la cantaba era una chica, yo me habia enamorado de esa vocecita tan linda. mi sorpresa fue cuando descubri todo en el internet. y es por eso que para mi GIGI es un mito. es el maestro de los maestros como siempre se los e dicho a los amigos que encontre con el mismo gusto por este genero.

ps. yo habia escuchado ya a eiffel 65, lo escuchaba demasiado en MTV pero no me llamaba mucho la atencion ni el interes. pude conocer todo esto gracias a ti grande "GIGI D'AGOSTINO"