Euro Disco

Euro Disco is a term that was first used during the 1970s to describe a variety of non UK-based European disco pop music. Euro-disco songs, like other related genres such as Euro-pop and Euro-dance are usually lightweight, slickly produced, catchy songs with bouncy dance beats, and English-language vocals over a contrasting verse-chorus song form and later, synthesizer-based accompaniment. Euro-disco's domain overlaps with those of Italo Disco, Eurobeat, European New Wave, British Eurobeat, Canadian Disco and Europop. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Italian Italo Disco music fans began using the term "Euro-disco" to describe the non-Italian italo disco productions from the mid-to late 1980s, especially those from Germany. Decades before, during 1979-1984, the term rock elettronico used in Italy for some music styles, including what later would became "Italo Disco" and Space Synth. In the 2000s, the term "70s Eurodisco" is used to refer to the original 1970s use of the term, and "80s Eurodisco" is used to describe the non-UK based European dance music productions of the 1980s and the very early 1990s, especially those from Eastern Europe.