 By circa 1988, the genre had merged into other forms of European dance and electronic music, such as Italo house, which blended elements of Italo disco with traditional house music; its sound was generally uplifting, and made strong usage of piano melodies.Some bands of this genre are Black Box, East Side Beat, and 49ers.By the latter half of the 1990s, a subgenre of Eurodance known as Italo dance emerged.