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Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released
1982
Label
Zanza
On
Italo Disco, The Eighties, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Updated
2026-08-29
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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.