Italo disco is also referred to as Vintage Disco in the United States, specifically in the South Florida area where this genre of music was extremely popular in the dance clubs of greater Miami and Hialeah in the 70's and 80's. In fact, still to his day several dance clubs in South Florida still cater to the Vintage Disco aficionado by playing favorites such as Cerrone and Alec Constandinos. Even though the music style is called Italo Disco, it has never generated any significant popularity in Italy and is not a part of Italian pop music scene. Italo Disco has roots in Italy, but that's about it. This music genre is not place-specific, nor it is even person-specific, since this was a phase for many artists involved. It's rather a very distinct style of music performance. Technically speaking, Italo Disco was simply the 1980's Disco. This is evident with any 70's disco band/artist that continued its work into the 1980's. For example, by 1984 70's bands/artists like Kool and the Gang, Arabesque, Boney M sounded just like the Italo Disco tracks from the ZYX Music compilations. Today, however, the term Eurodisco (or Disco, if the artists are from other continents) often refers to all disco music that was produced up until the late 1980's. This significantly complicates the search of Italo Disco styled tracks, and confuses a lot of fans. In the end, it all comes down to what a person is really looking for: If you are looking for any dance music that was produced in 1970's and 1980's, typing Disco into your search engine will give you what you want. If you are looking for a dance music that was produced only in Europe in 1970's and 1980's, typing Eurodisco will narrow your search to only European productions. But if you are looking for something that sounds like Laura Branigan's Self Control or C.C. Catch's 'Cause You are Young then typing Italo Disco into your search engine will be the best bet. Eurodisco or Disco tags will not really help in this case. (*)