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 is the video for Risk Risk’s ‘Streetwalk’.
It’s subtly 80’s, right down to film style and video glitches. Remember when zooming in and out quickly was considered impressive?
Lasers and smoke, man, lasers and smoke!
Risk Risk’s ‘This Is 1983’ is out now on Astro-Chicken.
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Legendary producer Martin Rushent passed away at the weekend aged 63. Marin was responsible for not only shaping the sound of SynthPop and ElectroPop but, with the The League Unlimited Orchestra’s ‘Love And Dancing’ was a pioneer of the reMix world. He also produced the greatest album of all time, The Human League’s ‘Dare’, in 1981. Here is ‘Love Action (I Believe In Love)’. The world is slightly worse off today.
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‘Shellshock’ is my favourite New Order song. For me it’s broken beats and use of sampling were so ahead of their time (well, the sampling not so much, but cool anyhow) in 1986. Just picture Duckie BMXing it around and around outside Iona’s house in Pretty In Pink if you don’t like the video.
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The mighty Howard jones is, despite being an absolute legend, shamefully underappreciated, to the extent that he gets a bad rap, even from so-called ElectroPop lovers. Don’t worry Howie, i got your back!
Here is 1985’s ‘Things Can Only Get Better’
Howard was mocked a lot for having a guy who did noting but dance and look like a bit if a tit with him. doesn’t that apply to 3/4 of The Prodigy too?
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Here’s the brand new video for Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs’ current single ‘Trouble’.
TEED appears to be at some kind of slightly retro, slightly Lynchian party. I can’t tell you who directed it, but I can tell you that the headgear was made by Yunus & Eliza.
‘Trouble’ is out now.
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The Human League, 1981, ‘Dare’, prefect. ‘Nuff said.
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Anoraak’s video for their ‘Dolphins & Highways’ single featuring Siobhan Wilson.
Put together from Director Jozué’s round the world trip it works wonderfully with the track.
‘Dolphins & Highways’ is taken from the ‘Wherever the Sun Sets’ album, otu now.
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Mullet Records next release is Satin Jackets & Eric Cozier’s ‘Everywhere I goGo.
Here’s the video, put together by Nadine Platzek, and is the prefect aspirational 80’s compliment to and asperational 80’s electro-Funk jam!
Satin Jackets ‘Everywhere I Go’ is out 20th June.
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Before Mantronix was making R&B, Kurtis Mantronik and MC Tee was not only Electro pioneers but the best in their game. From 1984 to 1988 they produced some of the best Electro Hip Hop in the world and constantly reinvented their sound with evolving music production technology, culminating in 1988’s ‘In Full Effect’ album and the ‘Simple Simon (You Gotta’ Regard)’ single.
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