Goin’ Old School: Blondie – Atomic

Not entirely synthy, but very post New Your Disco/pre New New York Disco. Blondie’ 1979 hit ‘Atomic’.

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Strange Talk’s ‘Climbing Walls’ video

Strange Talk’s awesome summer anthem ‘Climbing Walls, from their self-titled EP, is now available for your viewing pleasure in glorious Technicolor.

Dancing, sunshine, bright colours and an 80’s feel. Exactly what you’d expect from a video to this track.

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New video from The Deadstock 33s & Stopmakingme

This is the video for The Deadstock 33s & Stopmakingme’s deep and dirty ‘Autumn’.

The solid analog synthesizer grooves are complimented by a visually arresting video, it all flows nicely.

‘Autumn’ is released as part of Gomma Dance Tracks’ ‘E.P.4’ on 5th August.

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Goin’ Old School: Fresh Color – Disco Future

Some classic Italo for you today in the form of Fresh Color’s ‘Disco Future’ from 1985.

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Killabite’s killaBYTE video

This is the video for LA duo Killabite’s new single ‘killaBYTE’ with it’s anime noodle house shenanigans.

the track is really cool, laid back futuristic SynthPop, really 80’s, with an oriental edge. Check it out.

‘killaBYTE’ is out now.

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Going Old School: Seona Dancing – Bitter Heart

Seona Dancing’s surprisingly excellent ‘Bitter Heart’ from 1983. Yes, That is Ricky Gervais singing.

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Neon Indian’ Polish Girl’ video

Quirky subject matter and dreamlike cinematography? Must be a Chillwave video! It is! It’s for Neon Indian’s sublime ‘Polish girl’.

In all seriousness it’s a nice video and flow with the track well.

Neon Indian’s ‘Era Extraña’ is out 13th September.

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Going Old School: 808 State – Pacific State

After the seminal Acid album, ‘Newbuild’ 808 State embraced the smooth in 1989 with ‘Pacific State’. Digital sax win!

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Monarchy’s ‘Maybe I’m Crazy’ video

The official video for Monarchy’s next single ‘Maybe I’m Crazy’ premiered today.

It’s strangely 80’s, not in it’s content or look or feel, but in it’s editing, effects. and photography. It’s also the most (non-comedy) Sci-Fi video they’ve done since The Phoenix Alive.

‘Maybe I’m Crazy’ is Monarchy’s next single. It’s taken from the amazing album ‘Around The Sun’, out now.

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Goin’ Old School: Soft Cell – Torch

Here’s Soft Cell doing ‘Torch’ on TOTP in 1982. There really wasn’t anyone or hasn’t been anyone since who sounded like them.

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