

This cult genre first emerged in the early 90s as folk musicians and wedding bands finally were able to upgrade their antiquated audio gear (accordions) and buy some shiny new keyboards with built in drum machines (and 70s disco presets). It could have been blaring from a souped-up Fiat Duze rolling by, pulsing from a radio in a Żabka convenience store or been the soundtrack to that local wedding you attended a few months back. In fact you may have already been exposed to it without even realising it.


No, it’s not an equestrian sport involving bell-bottomed jockeys (good guess, though), Disco Polo is a rather peculiar and uniquely Polish sub-genre of Europop music.
