Discomagic Records (1979–1997), owned by
Severo Lombardoni
Severino "Severo" Lombardoni (7 March 1949 in Pedrengo at Bergamo - 13 February 2012 in Milan) was a music producer in Italy. He was founder and owner of '' Discomagic S.r.l'' and is known as a pioneer of Italo disco and Italo Dance music.
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was the largest dance record label in Italy. It spawned a large number of sub-labels from the early 1980s to the early 1990s and it set the standards for an entire genre of music ranging from
Italo disco
Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, pop, ...
to
Italo house.
With S.r.I as its initial legal form, the company changed its legal form to S.p.A. in 1994, and to S.a.S. in 1995. Due to financial problems, Discomagic ceased its operations in 1997. Lombardoni sold the company to Bernhard Mikulski's
ZYX Music. However, some of its sublabels still exist to date. The sublabels owned by Mauro Farina were brought into what became
SAIFAM Music Group.
Roberto Zanetti's Dance World Attack became an independent label, but was sold to
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. It is the recording division of Sony Music Group, with the other half being the ...
in 1999.
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Italian record labels
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Italo disco