Grum’s recent reMix was a nice updating of this absolutely legendary song. From 1984, Pet Shop Boys’ ‘West End Girls’.
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Goin’ Old School: Yellow Magic Orchestra – Rydeen
Yellow Magic Orchestra have been making boundary pushing electronic music and ElectroPop since before you know what a synthesizer was. Show some respect! ‘Rydeen’ is from 1980, by which time they were already comfortable making big Electro jams while much of the rest of the world was on Tomorrow’s World complaining that synthesizer music wasn’t somehow real.
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Goin’ Old School: Man Parrish – Hip Hop Bebop (Don’t Stop)
Man Parrish is an absolute electronic music legend, helping to shape Hip Hop, ElectroPop and Italo throughout the years. ‘Hip Hop Bebop (Don’t Stop)’ was 1982. 1982! insane.
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Goin’ Old School: Nitzer Ebb – Lightning Man
Ah Nitzer Ebb, how much of my youth did you live in my Walkman for? Was ‘Lightning Man’ really 1990?
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Goin’ Old School: Trans-X – Living On Video
It was the future, or 1983. Technology was either going to destroy us or save us. Trans-X’s ‘Living On Video’ was all about synthesizers and stuff! Can you imagine?
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Goin’ Old School: Laura Branigan (or) Raf – Self Control
Straight from 1984, here is both Laura Branigan and co-wirter Raf’s versions of ‘Self Control’, both blew up in Europe that year but only Branigan’s made any impact across the Atlantic. I can never decide which version I prefer but both are definitely better than the subsequent covers.
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Goin’ Old School: Thompson Twins – Doctor! Doctor!
Thompson Twins, sorely overlooked heroes of 80’s music, to often considered a flash-in-the-pan, they awere actually around for years with a string of successful records, one of those being 1984’s ‘Doctor! Doctor!’, here performed on Top Of The Pops.
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Goin’ Old School: Bomb The Bass – Don’t Make Me Wait
In 1988 Bomb The Bass released ‘Into The Dragon’ one of the all time seminal dance music albums, alongside ‘Beat ‘Dis’, the big hit from the record, the second single was the amazing ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ featuring Lorraine McIntosh on vocals. A track that I will never get enough of. Here they are preforming it on Top Of The Pops. I’ll always have a soft spot for girls in hi-tops and oversized Troop jackets.
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Goin’ Old School: John Foxx – Underpass
Whether with his work in early Ultravox for with three decades of making innovative electronic music John Foxx has always been a banner flyer for the synthesizer, and we love him for it. Here’s 1980’s ‘Underpass’, still a classic.
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Goin’ Old School: Lisa Lougheed – Run With Us
Lisa Lougheed’s ‘Run With Us’ from 1987. Yes, it’s the theme tune to The Raccoons. What?
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