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===Nu-disco=== {{main|Nu-disco}} Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco,<ref name="reynolds2001">{{cite journal|journal=Village Voice|title=Disco Double Take: New York Parties Like It's 1975|date=July 11, 2001|access-date=December 17, 2008|last=Reynolds|first=Simon|url=http://energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2008/06/disco-double-take-new-york-parties-like.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211160513/http://energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2008/06/disco-double-take-new-york-parties-like.html|archive-date=February 11, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics.<ref name="spin200802">{{cite journal |last=Beta |first=Andy |date=February 2008 |title=Boogie Children: A new generation of DJs and producers revive the spaced-out, synthetic sound of Euro disco |journal=Spin |page=44 |url=http://spin-cdnsrc.texterity.com/spin/200802/?pg=48 |access-date=August 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716213206/http://spin-cdnsrc.texterity.com/spin/200802/?pg=48 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport.<ref name="beatport">{{cite press release |title = Beatport launches nu disco / indie dance genre page |publisher = Beatport |date = July 30, 2008 |url = http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/beatport-launches-nu-disco-indie-dance-genre-page/ |access-date = August 8, 2008 |quote = Beatport is launching a new landing page, dedicated solely to the genres of "nu disco" and "indie dance". ... Nu Disco is everything that springs from the late '70s and early '80s (electronic) disco, boogie, cosmic, Balearic and Italo disco continuum ... |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080807115809/http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/beatport-launches-nu-disco-indie-dance-genre-page/ |archive-date = August 7, 2008 |url-status = dead |df = mdy-all }}</ref> These vendors often associate it with re-edits of original-era disco music, as well as with music from European producers who make dance music inspired by original-era American disco, electro, and other genres popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is also used to describe the music on several American labels who were previously associated with the genres [[electroclash]] and [[French house]].
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