Miami Vice is one of the most awesome shows ever created, it swings from awesomely awesome to awesomely, unintentionally, hilarious with such ease! Jan Hammer’s ‘Miami Vice Theme’ from 1985 is no laughing matter though. It’s serious smooth.
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It’s 1983, you’re Break Machine. How can you cash in on kids with rolls of lino and boomboxes? Why, of course! You release ‘Street Dance’, one of the funkiest slices of Electro Soul ever created.
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Here’s your slice of nostalgia for Sunday. From 1984 we have Germany’s Alphaville with Big In Japan. It’s an absolutely amazing song. Banner flags and smoke were so big in the mid 80’s!
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It’s 1981, The Human League seem to have split up, your world is in tatters, then this happens. Heaven 17 put a little funk in your synth life with ‘Penthouse And Pavement’.
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Looking for the Perfect Beat? Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force were in 1983, they pretty much found it then gave it to Hip Hop who, let’s be honest, hasn’t always treated it well.
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Strangelove from 1987’s ‘Music For The Masses’ by Depeche Mode, arguably (or at least, I will argue it with you) their finest album.
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I love this song so much words cannot express, the synth riff in it is just so catchy it’s not even funny. The Rock Steady Crew’s 1983 hit ‘Hey You (The Rock Steady Crew)’ followed Malcom McLaren’s ‘Buffalo girls’ in being one of the first tracks that introduced Hip Hop to the UK.
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Here’s Bronski Beat’s 1986 top ten hit ‘Hit That Perfect Beat’. The track contains one of the catchiest lead lines you will ever hear! The clips in the video come from the film Letter To Brezhnev, which features the song on it’s soundtrack.
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Jean-Michel Jarre is one of my all time heroes, a synthesizer king who has made some of the most epic music ever. In the mid-80’s he got a little funky and experimental with emerging sampling technology resulting in 1984’s ‘Zoolook’ album. This is the title track.
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We’re going to start putting up videos, maybe daily, of classic tracks and performances ‘cos, well, why not!
Kicking things off is UK DancePop act Freeze’s Pop/Electro crossover ‘IOU’ from 1983. Arthur Baker produces for that B-Boy feel the track made it onto the soundtrack for Beat Street.
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