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  "name": "Alexander Robotnick",
  "description": "Alexander Robotnick appears 2 times in our Italo Disco and The Eighties lists, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
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      "title": "Problèmes d'Amour",
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      "whyItMatters": "A Florentine making a French-language record about romantic difficulty over a sequencer that will not sit still. Italo's wit and its melancholy in one four-minute package.",
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      "whyItMatters": "A one-man record on a tiny Florentine imprint that outlasted most of the decade's budgets. Italo is the purest example of the criterion: no industry behind it at all, and it ended up under half of house music.",
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