Euro disco

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  Italo disco

  Italo Disco is a very broad term, encompassing much of the disco music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world's first forms of completely electronic dance music that evolved during the late 1970s / early 1980s in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and other parts of Europe. Italo...
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  Trance music

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  Eurodance

  Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music originated in the early 1990s. It combines many elements from House, Hi-NRG, Italo-Disco. Starting in the early 1990s and continuing these days, Eurodance production continues to evolve with a more modernized style that incorporates elements from...
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  Drum and bass

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  Techno

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• Alternative dance

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• Hi-NRG

  Hi-NRG (High Energy) is high-tempo disco music (often with electronic instrumentation), as well as a more specific, derivative genre of electronic dance music that achieved mainstream popularity in the mid to late 1980s. The term was also applied to Eurobeat when sold in the USA. In 1977, Donna...

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• Downbeat

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