Genre: Discopop / Post-Disco

In the aftermath of the great Disco supernova implosion, a supermassive, eclectic post-genre opened up, attracting a bit of everything that was hot at the time (but mostly Synthpop and a touch of instant recognizable glammy metallic guitar solos). The result is Discopop or Post-Disco: a collection of all Disco-based Pop music that is almost synonymous with “the sound of the eighties”. The demise of Disco happened parallel with the demise of Post-Punk, the aftershock of the oil crisis, and the steep rise of Colombian cocaine and techno-materialism. This was music for the age of superficiality: a thin layer of neon, fast vehicles, palm trees and white powder, barely capable of concealing a yolo-mentality that denied any fear it was actually based upon.

But there was more than synthesizer bands stuck in an escapist wave of Disco nostalgia. Disco-Pop is mainly the embodiment of artists with a R&B background (Soul) who got influenced by its successor Disco, but never really made pure Disco music (as this was strictly dancefloor material). Instead they released Pop crossovers and became international superstars, selling more records than anyone before. Their music is often (mistakenly) labeled as “Dance Pop”, a reference to its irresistibly moving nature. By combining the most-catchy elements of Rock, Synth and R&B, while also implementing less conventional chords and song structures, professional Pop producers donated their artists immaculately crafted superhits eternalized in music’s collective memory.