Nu Disco

Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with a renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, early to mid-1980s Italo disco and boogie, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco and P-Funk aesthetics. Characteristics of this genre are a heavy emphasis on rhythm (mainly through bass support guitars, sometimes playing 16th note strums / plucks and other times more intricate patterns - like complex arpeggiating), a steady 4otf (four-on-the-floor) drum pattern, sometimes house-styled with kicks and kick - clap layering, melodic / bass synths built from analog waveshapes (such as the sawtooth, square, triangle or sine waves) modulated through simple filtering, the use of swing and triplet grooves, shuffling, bells or bell melodies inspired by analog synthesizers, the use of pitch-bends, phaser and flanger effects, the employment of off-beat notes, funky vocal chops / sample chops, laidback, refreshing vocals occasionally reinforced by falsetto harmonies and vocoded / "talkbox" or bitcrush / bit-reduction effect impacted. Vintage gentle tape saturation distortion can also be heard (for added "warmth" - a.k.a. the introduction of new harmonics and emphasis of existing ones). The tempos usually reside around 100 bpm, but can reach higher, such as in the case of Televisor - "Automagic" - 125 bpm

The color associated with the genre before genre colors were phased out was: Teal (Hex: #1CABB3) (RGB: 28, 171, 179)

Nu-Disco used to be accompanied by the Indie Dance category in Monstercat's labelling.

Examples:

• Televisor & Danyka Nadeau - "Dangerous" ;

  

  -Nu Disco- - Televisor - Dangerous (feat Danyka Nadeau). Danyka Nadeau) -Monstercat Release-

• Televisor - "Find That Someone" ;

  

  Televisor - Find That Someone -Monstercat Official Music Video-

• Televisor & Splitbreed - "Break Loose" (Original Mix) ;

  

  Televisor - Break Loose (ft Splitbreed)

• Televisor - "Neon";

  

  -Nu Disco- - Televisor - Neon -Monstercat Release-

• 7 Minutes Dead - "Peacock" (the intro) ;

  

  -Nu Disco- - 7 Minutes Dead - Peacock -Monstercat EP Release-

• Tut Tut Child & Beth Cole - "If I Could" ;

  

  Tut Tut Child - If I Could (feat. Beth Cole) -Monstercat Release-

• Summer Was Fun - "Pick Up The Phone" ;

  

  -Indie Dance- - Summer Was Fun - Pick Up the Phone -Monstercat Release-

• Draper & Laura Brehm - "All I See" ;

  

  -Indie Dance- - Draper - All I See (feat. Laura Brehm) -Monstercat Release-

• LVTHER & Jenny Broke The Window - "Dots" ;

  

  -Indie Dance- - LVTHER - Dots (feat. Jenny Broke The Window) -Monstercat Release-

• Televisor & Patrick Baker - "Deya" ;

  

  -Nu Disco- - Televisor - Deya (feat. Patrick Baker) -Monstercat EP Release-

• Insan3Lik3 & Temu - "We Are The Robots" ;

  

  -Nu Disco- - Insan3Lik3 - We Are The Robots (feat. Temu) -Monstercat Release-

• Rezonate - "Canvas" ;

  

  -Indie Dance- - Rezonate - Canvas -Monstercat EP Release-

• Televisor - "Dream Soda" ;

  

  -Nu Disco- - Televisor - Dream Soda -Monstercat Release-

• Televisor - "Old Skool"

  

  -Nu Disco- - Televisor - Old Skool -Monstercat Release + Remix Competition-

• Electro-Funk: Is a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizerswith a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
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