Disco Nouveau is the first compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of Ann Arbor, Michigan

Michigan

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 record label Ghostly International

Ghostly International

Ghostly International is an American independent record label. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye , Mobius Band, and Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys, all of which are innovative contributors to the world of music....

. Released in 2002, the album served as a modern update of Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder

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's famed Italo Disco

Italo disco

Italo disco encompasses much of the dance music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world's first forms of mostly electronic dance music and evolved during the late 1970s and early 1980s in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and other parts of Europe...

 sound of the 1970s and 1980s and includes contributions from artists such as Solvent

Solvent (producer)

Solvent is the stage name used by electronic producer and remixer Jason Amm . Although his music has been included in the electroclash movement , many of Solvent's tracks fall under the intelligent dance music or electropop genres...

, ADULT.

ADULT.

ADULT. is an American band from Detroit, Michigan that integrates vocals with drum machines, analog synths and electronic/punk elements. While popular in their home city of Detroit, they are also very popular in Germany and the United Kingdom.-History:ADULT...

, and Susumu Yokota

Susumu Yokota

Susumu Yokota is a prolific Japanese composer.Yokota is well known in the English-speaking independent music scene for his albums of experimental ambient music...

. It served as a major inspiration to the (at the time) burgeoning electroclash

Electroclash

Electroclash is a style of music that fuses New Wave and electronic dance music. It emerged in New York and Detroit in the later 1990s, pioneered by acts including I-F and those associated with Gerald Donald, and is associated with acts including Peaches, Adult, and Fischerspooner...

 movement and has been praised for its persistent relevance in much the same way as Moroder himself.

Disco Nouveau Track listing

1. Daniel Wang "Pistol Oderso"
2. ADULT.
   ADULT.
   ADULT. is an American band from Detroit, Michigan that integrates vocals with drum machines, analog synths and electronic/punk elements. While popular in their home city of Detroit, they are also very popular in Germany and the United Kingdom.-History:ADULT...
   
    "Nite Life"
3. Legowelt
   Legowelt
   Legowelt is a Dutch electronic musician who describes his musical style as "a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack."...
   
    "Disco Rout"
4. Solvent
   Solvent (producer)
   Solvent is the stage name used by electronic producer and remixer Jason Amm . Although his music has been included in the electroclash movement , many of Solvent's tracks fall under the intelligent dance music or electropop genres...
   
    "My Radio"
5. I-F
   I-F
   I-f is the stage name of Ferenc E. van der Sluijs, a Dutch producer and DJ based in The Hague. He is a former member of the Dutch electro-pioneers Unit Moebius....
   
    featuring Nancy Fortune "Holographic Voice"
6. DMX Krew
   DMX Krew
   DMX Krew is the recording name of Ed Upton. He has released 6 full albums on Aphex Twin's label Rephlex Records and numerous singles/EPs for both Rephlex and his own Breakin' Records. DMX Krew's sound spans several electronic music genres but had mostly been rooted in early electro-pop/breakdance...
   
    featuring Tracy "Make Me"
7. Perspects "They Keep Dancing"
8. Ectomorph "Lost Angles"
9. Susumu Yokota
   Susumu Yokota
   Susumu Yokota is a prolific Japanese composer.Yokota is well known in the English-speaking independent music scene for his albums of experimental ambient music...
   
    "Re: Disco"
10. Mat-101 "Haunted House"
11. Charles Manier "Change You"
12. Lowfish "No Longer Accepting Complaints"
13. Hong Kong Counterfeit "Metal Disco Rmx"
14. Memory Boy
    Memory Boy
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    "There Is No Electricity"