Tag: 80’s
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Synth Britannia
People have been mentioning this for AGES saying ‘Have you seen Synth Britannia?’ and I was wary since I thought it might be another 80’s nostalgia fest with the usual faces. Not at all – and I was blown away how indepth they went, even visiting my old alma-mater at Psalter Lane (my claim to…
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Acid House will NEVER DIE!
Hacienda as pictured in ’24 Hour Party People’ – great film btw …and the Hacienda, and piano house in general. I’m sure at some point acid house devotees will become annoying as punk bores, but with piano house on the rebound a and late 80’s house references on the come back (see Hercules and Love…
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Let’s rewind like it’s 1989 (and 1979 and 1999)!
Want to hear Little Boots covering Freddie Mercury? Amiina (Sigur Ros’s string section, played on RC in the past) covering OMD? Au Revoir Simone covering one of my favourite ELO songs (Here is the News) AC Slater, probably the best remixer atm outside of Jackbeats remixing Prodigy? Bonde de Role doing Pigbag? Young Punx doing…
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New for 2009?
Just looking through the BBC’s Sound of 2009 – and I’m struck by the thought that unlike 2008 which in rock and pop has been fairly MEH with a few exceptions (dance and drum and bass is in rude health though; indie has become corporate and bland; pop is ringtones now with only a few…