Italo house is a form of house music popular in Italy, Britian and the United States since the late 1980s, it fuses house and Italo disco.
The genre's main musical characteristic is it's use of predominantly electronic piano chords in a more lyrical (yet still "clunky") form than classic Chicago House records. The best known example is Black Box's "Ride On Time". Two of the genre's most notable characteristics are its liberal use of lyrical hooks from other compositions (usually by pairing phrases from unrelated compositions), and its translation of Italian lyrics into a gibberish form of English. While the 49ers records would display the best example of the former, the latter is epitomized by the Black Box record "Everybody, Everybody". The resulting "gibberish" lyrics (whether sampled or translated) have a vaguely impressionistic charm that stuck with the genre as it cycles through musical fads ranging from disco to drum and bass. Whereas Italo disco is defined more by it's early use of electronica and Hi-NRG in the musical backing, Italo house is defined predominantly by its lyrical oddities. Indeed, groups that spoke and wrote native English would intentionally imitate the lyrical goofiness of the genre. Today, house DJs and musicians around the world, such as Ewan Pearson and David Gilmore, are fusing elements of the '80s disco electro revival (US and Britian) with that of Italo house.