In 1989 Black Box made Italo, House and Balearic into Pop with ‘Ride On Time’.
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Category Goin’ Old School
Goin’ Old School: Ollie And Jerry – Breakin’… There’s No Stoppin’ Us
Watched Breakin’ again this weekend. I watch that move far too much. Here’s some 1983 Electro Soul goodness in the form of Ollie And Jerry’s title track ‘Breakin’… There’s No Stoppin’ Us’.
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Goin’ Old School: Ministry – Revenge
Oh look! Ministry, before they were shit. You’ve got to go all the way back to 1983 to find it, but it’s there. Here’s ‘Revenge’. (P.S. Yes, that is chugging metal guitars and growling distorted vocals Ministry!)
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Goin’ Old School: 2 Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet – Tired Of Getting Pushed Around
2 Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet, what two members of Fine Young Cannibals did when they got bored. Here’s their hit, ‘Tired Of Getting Pushed Around’, on TOTP in 1988.
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Goin’ Old School: Sabrina – Boys (Summertime Love)
In 1987, Sabrina brought Italo music to darkened teenage boy’s bedrooms all across Europe with ‘Boys (Summertime Love)’. Yeah, you know what I’m talkin’ about!
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Goin’ Old School: Sandra – (I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena
It’s Sandra, from 1985, dropping an Italo/ElectroPop/Disco sound with ‘(I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena’. It’s Italo with a drama only the Germans could produce.
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Goin’ Old School: The Normal – T.V.O.D.
In 1978 Daniel Miller mucked around with some synthesizers. Then he released ‘T.V.O.D. ‘ as The Normal. then SynthPop happened. Coincidence?
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Goin’ Old School: Peter Godwin – Baby’s In The Mountains
Peter Godwin‘s 1983 Italo/Pop ‘hit’ ‘Baby’s In The Mountains’. I use the word ‘hit’ loosely, despite it being a classic slice of 80’s electronic Pop it has been largely forgotten.
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Goin’ Old School: Arcadia – Election Day
Arcadia; what Duran Duran did in 1985 when they got a bit board of tropical beaches. ‘Election Day’ was their biggest hit.
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Goin’ Old School: Blancmange – Don’t Tell Me
Blancmange‘s ‘Don’t Tell Me’ from 1984. that’s how you make bass heavy, catchy, SynthPop. The beats are all a bit proto-Balearic really.
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