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Goin’ Old School: The Human League – Love Action (I Believe In Love) in memory of Martin Rushent
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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Goin’ Old School: New Order – Shellshock
‘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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Goin’ Old School: Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better
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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Goin’ Old School: Bronski Beat – Hit That Perfect Beat
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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Goin’ Old School: The Human League – Open Your Heart
The Human League, 1981, ‘Dare’, prefect. ‘Nuff said.
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Mjolnir
Mjolnir, you probably know from their The Chemical Brothers reMix that was doing the rounds a couple of weeks ago. This Indonesian trio make some sweet Disco and Italo influenced ElectroPop that you need to check out.
Picking up the ItaloPop torch from Heartbreak (what’s happened to Heartbreak?) ‘Just A Boy’ is an epic six minutes of mid-80’s sounding SynthPop that could easily be dropped in the middle of an 80’s set and have the crown stroking their chins a commenting that they remember this track, it’s on the tips of their tongues! ‘Midway’ is slightly more contemporary in it’s production but sneaks Duran Duran-esque guitar riff in there amongst the sparkling ElectroPop and vodocer madness, and it’s catchy as hell too.
♫ Mjolnir (Feat. Dini) – Midway
They also entered this reMix in Tuff ‘Em up’s Barretso remix competition, it’s some seriously solid Disco.
♫ Barretso – Chase (Mjolnir reMix)
Mjolnir are definatly a trio to keep you eyes on, we expect great things.
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Goin’ Old School: Freeze – IOU
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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New Look’s ‘The Ballad’
Studio !K7’s latest signing is Canadian SynthPop duo New Look who are soon to release a new single titles ‘The Ballad’.
An awesome deep and enveloping track like an electronic heartbeat, ‘The Ballad’’s video was directed by Australian fashion photographer and film maker Will Davidson.
New Look release ‘The Ballad’ on 27th June.
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Depeche Mode get an Acid workout
‘Master And Servant’ is amongst my favourite Depeche Mode tracks, it’s also one that has always lent itself well to reMixes and faired slightly better in reMix output that some other DM songs.
So with the eagerly anticipated ‘reMixes 2: 81-11’ album, featuring Depeche Mode reMixes from the likes of M83, UNKLE, Trentemøller, François Kervorkian, Dan The Automator, Stargate, Eric Prydz, Karlsson & Winnberg (from Miike Snow) and Røyksopp amongst others, only a couple of week away we present this reMix, not featured on the album, from RSS who grab vocal and synth hooks from the tune and apply them to their hypnotic Acid-Techno.
♫ Depeche Mode – Master And Servant (RSS reMix)
‘reMixes 2: 81-11’ is released 6th June on MuteReprise, of extra special interest for me is the expanded editions which will include exclusive reMixes by former band members Vince Clarke and Alan Wilder.
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