# The 8 Best Italo Disco Tracks of All Time

Disco rebuilt in Italian studios once America had declared disco dead, using cheap synthesisers instead of orchestras and English written by people who did not speak it. Melodramatic, synthetic, and enormously consequential in Chicago.

- **Origin:** Italy, 1980
- **Tempo:** 115–125 BPM
- **Also known as:** italo, italo-disco, spaghetti dance
- **Tracks:** 8
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/genre/italo-disco/

## The list

### 1. [Klein + M.B.O.](https://waxonia.com/artist/klein-m-b-o/) — [Dirty Talk](https://waxonia.com/track/klein-m-b-o--dirty-talk/)

*1982 · Zanza*

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.

Also on: [The Eighties](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Klein%20%2B%20M.B.O.%20Dirty%20Talk) · [Search YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/search?q=Klein%20%2B%20M.B.O.%20Dirty%20Talk)

### 2. [Charlie](https://waxonia.com/artist/charlie/) — [Spacer Woman](https://waxonia.com/track/charlie--spacer-woman/)

*1983 · Mr. Disc*

Cold, cavernous and about forty years ahead of the taste that eventually caught up with it. The most reissued, most bootlegged record in the genre, and it deserves the attention.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Charlie%20Spacer%20Woman) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nZDPCjEoIMI)

### 3. [Alexander Robotnick](https://waxonia.com/artist/alexander-robotnick/) — [Problèmes d'Amour](https://waxonia.com/track/alexander-robotnick--problemes-damour/)

*1983 · Fuzz Dance*

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.

Also on: [The Eighties](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Alexander%20Robotnick%20Probl%C3%A8mes%20d'Amour) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oX1Vge8zAjw)

### 4. [Kano](https://waxonia.com/artist/kano/) — [I'm Ready](https://waxonia.com/track/kano--im-ready/)

*1980 · Full Time*

Early, and startlingly close to what New York would call electro two years later. The bassline alone accounts for a decade of records made elsewhere.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Kano%20I'm%20Ready) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gqc06bfkC2s)

### 5. [Ryan Paris](https://waxonia.com/artist/ryan-paris/) — [Dolce Vita](https://waxonia.com/track/ryan-paris--dolce-vita/)

*1983 · Discomagic*

The genre's biggest hit and its purest expression: an Italian pretending to be a Frenchman singing in English about an Italian film. Sincerity is not the point and never was.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Ryan%20Paris%20Dolce%20Vita) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AfR859j5k5w)

### 6. [My Mine](https://waxonia.com/artist/my-mine/) — [Hypnotic Tango](https://waxonia.com/track/my-mine--hypnotic-tango/)

*1983*

Absurd, imperious and completely committed. If you want to know why Italo is loved rather than merely respected, it is records that keep a straight face through something this daft.

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/My%20Mine%20Hypnotic%20Tango) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gHvA0QFDoVY)

### 7. [Righeira](https://waxonia.com/artist/righeira/) — [Vamos a la Playa](https://waxonia.com/track/righeira--vamos-a-la-playa/)

*1983 · CBS*

A summer holiday singalong whose lyric is about a beach after a nuclear explosion. The most Italo fact available: nobody dancing to it noticed for years.

Also on: [Dancing to Bad News](https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Righeira%20Vamos%20a%20la%20Playa) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=x0OMFm8FO90)

### 8. [Sueño Latino](https://waxonia.com/artist/sueno-latino/) — [Sueño Latino](https://waxonia.com/track/sueno-latino--sueno-latino/)

*1989 · DFC*

An entire record built by looping Manuel Göttsching's E2-E4 and adding birdsong. The closing argument of Italo and the opening argument of Italian house, in the same nine minutes.

Also on: [Balearic](https://waxonia.com/genre/balearic/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/).

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Sue%C3%B1o%20Latino%20Sue%C3%B1o%20Latino) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXJuZ877OE)

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