Artist
Klein + M.B.O.
Klein + M.B.O. appears 3 times in our Italo Disco, The Eighties, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Italo Disco, The Eighties, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Year
- 1982
- Highest placing
- No. 1 in Italo Disco
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Appears on
Dirty Talk
1982 · Zanza
Ranked No. 1 in Italo Disco
The record Chicago DJs played until the grooves went. Its stark synth bassline and vocoded chorus are more or less the specification house music was built to.
Dirty Talk
1982 · Zanza
Picked by The Eighties
Milan working out what to do with a drum machine two years before anyone called it Italo. Made cheaply for clubs, exported by accident, and played in New York and Chicago by DJs who had no idea where it came from.
Dirty Talk
1982 · Zanza
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Italians make a record that Chicago plays until the grooves go, and house music turns out to have been specified in Milan. Stark, cold and enormously influential.
Also on Italo Disco, The Eighties