Italo disco is a European disco variant that emerged in early-1980s Italy as US disco was retreating from American pop charts. The style trades disco's live brass and string sections for analog synthesisers, drum machines, and vocoders, producing a more electronic, melodic, and often melancholy sound. Tempos run 120–130 BPM. Producers like Giorgio Moroder, Alexander Robotnick, Gazebo, and the Italians Do It Better label's 2000s revival (Glass Candy, Chromatics) define the canon. Italo was an early influence on Chicago house and Detroit techno, particularly through its synth-bass programming. The form has had multiple revivals, most recently as part of the wider synthwave and outrun aesthetic, and remains active through dedicated reissue labels and contemporary producers.