How did you discover ItaloDance?

nice story froggy which tracks were on that one ?

thats quite a tracklist , first 4 tracks were also big hits in Denmark

btw , your story gets more epic awesomely nostalgic because of the casette-tape and walkman instead of digital download and stuff

Same story as some others here hehe.
Welcome to IDP naddi by the way

L'amour Toujours from the boss Gigi was my first Nu Italo song...

...well and Blue from Eifel65, the best italo songs ever by the way...

Then came Prezioso,Gabry Ponte (love you Gabry), Molella, DanyJay...until today

Italo dance is the one and only because combine romantic melodic notes and good rythmic base... represents a little bit of 80's for me and maybe for the current times is the sucessor of eurodance/eurobeat from 90's

I've listened to general "electonica" for as long I can remember.
In the early years is was mostly trance, like Dj Satomi, Dj Splash and all of them.
Eventually I found new sub-genres, like happy hardcore, house and such.
My first ItaloDance-experience must have been at this youth-club in my town. It some Gigi D'Agostin, like BlaBlaBla, Ripassa etc.
From then, I've listened to ALOT of different genres, dubstep, hardcore, hardstyle and so on. But in all this mess of genres, I've allways come back to listen to ItaloDance, Gigi.
He is a genious, I've listened to his music for about 7 years straight, and still haven't gotten tired of it. It still give me the nice feeling inside.

* Hhaahaha, I wanted to answer from some  years ago; I'll try to write shortly, LoL:*

CHRONOLOGY: It all started in my childhood during the middle of the 90s; until that moment I used to listen only my father's favorite music, Hhaahaha... but suddenly, my older brother started to listen to Eurodance (you know, Technotronic, Two Unlimited, Dr. Alban and others).  In Latin America, that style of music was wrongly  known (and is still known by many people) as "Techno".

Anyway, that was the first contact that I had with dance music, and I was as crazy when listening to songs like the Mortal Kombat theme, hahahah. After that, in the late 90s, came the "Dark Pop ages" for me, hahahah, only Vengaboys was the only dance music that I used to listen to by that time.

- Well, after the fake Y2K End Of the World fake stuff in 2000 I was still listening to pop, when suddenly, I listen to a song that shocked me (as many of you). That song was "I'm Blue Da Ba Dee" by Eiffel 65... and I was like  "what a  cool song and videoclip, maaaaaan!" . but It was only the beginning...

I remember that in the middle of that year, after watching Japanese cartoons, I went to listen to the radio when they played "Tell me Why" and for me was the most exciting song that I've ever heard!!! I even fell over the bed and said "WOOOOW" what was that??!! hahahah. but I didn't hear that song again until 2 years later...

- Talking about that, in 2002, I was almost resigned to listen to that song again when the radio played that song again!! after hearing it, I immediately called the radio and ask for the name of that  band and they told me "HE is called "Prezioso" and I was like "WHAT DA HECK?" this guy is drunk! (I didn't believe it 'cause it sounds in Spanish like "Precious" and it was impossible for me that I guy were named like that

- Well, almost in the middle of the 2000's, I was listening to the radio and I heard "Another Way by Gigi Dag (also so great to me when I heard it for the first time). I recorded it in a tape but I also wanted to know the name so I called the radio  but another Dj told me that he was called "Dj D'Agostino" and his style was "Techno". I didn't believe it  so I asked another Dj and told me his style was "Dream House". At time I used to call "Dream House" to "Italodance 2000" because of that guy, hahahaha. Then a friend told me Gigi's real name some weeks later.

By that time, Internet Café had become very popular and with that new tool some friends taught me how  to download ilegally (at that moment I didn't know it wasn't right until I read it on IDP, HEHEHE) and the first song that I ever downloaded was "Children" by Robert Miles (After a rough search, I also discovered that "Precious" was actually "Prezioso").

Ok, before you fall asleep, hahah, I conclude with this:

In 2006 I was searching for music similar to Gigi's (Dream House for me until that time) until finally I found a Spanish webpage where they had some samples and it said "Italo Dance per Sempre"; I downloaded it and after listening to it, I said "YEAAH, so similar to Gigi's style!!". Then, I discovered IDN, IDP and Youtube!

- In the late 2000s, I found out a badass new sub-gender called "Lento Violento" and the story continues until today).

- So, since the early 2010s, I don't download Italodance music ilegally anymore thanks to IDN, Italo Sound Radio, other radios and Youtube )

Sorry if my story was long but when I talk about Italodance, I've got to talk about my life too; let's see what the future brings

i discovered it only last year, when Gigi came to a disco near where i live and i was fascinated by his music! since then i started listening to italodance, specifically lento violento ( dj maxwell is my favourite one, and he even lives not so far from me )

yes that's true, i'm only at the beginning i'm going to listen Gigi next week too

Great story chrdb5! I think Eiffel 65 or Gigi D'Agostino started it for many of us, my own story is actually kinda similar to yours (except for the girls turning the volume down-part )

As a side note "Onene" is not actaully made by Gigi, it's a mistake that goes all the way back to the Kazaa-days, where someone named it incorrectly before sharing it, the original title is "Oh ne ne" by Rumble!

Thanks guys!

The "Rumble - Oh Ne Ne" tune is new to me, but it's great.

Mine is called "Gigi D'Agostino - Onene (DJ RayTronic Remix)