This connection with Baroque music is interesting to me. I’m not a musicologist, so I can’t explain it in technical terms, but I do think there’s a link there. Italo disco, first and foremost, is melody; the other elements are layered around that. If you think about it, much of Western music originated in Italy: from Monteverdi and the Baroque period, and then from there came classical music, Mozart, Beethoven, and everything that followed. Maybe it’s ultimately a cultural thing: in Italy, electronic music has always maintained a strong connection to melody, because that’s something deeply rooted in our tradition,” says Andrea Tirone. “There is a very human component in Italo disco,” reflects Conigliaro. “It emotes much more than other genres of electronic music