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Flashback Friday Music Share – 10/30/2015

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  • October 30, 2015 at 5:20 pm #2287721
    Gerd Bauersfeld
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    A diverse mix from me today:

    Artist: Dennis Ferrer
    Title: Reach 4 Freedom
    Label: Nite Grooves
    Genre: House
    Year: 2002

    Artist: Neneh Cherry
    Title: Buffalo Stance
    Label: Circa
    Genre: Pop Rap
    Year: 1988

    And at least one for Halloween:

    Artist: Rockwell
    Title: Somebody’s Watching Me
    Label: Motown
    Genre: Pop, Soul
    Year: 1984

    October 30, 2015 at 7:44 pm #2287751
    Alex Moschopoulos
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    I could not hit Halloween weekend and not share this one:

    Title: (Every Day Is) Halloween
    Artist: Ministry
    Label: Wax Trax

    Year Released: 1984
    Genre(s): Industrial, Synthpop, EBM

    1984…with the sounds of early hip-hop, electrofunk, and 80s pop filling the clubs, a darker more sinister sound was brewing here in the Windy City. It was really a time of transition for Ministry. They started off trying to be all synthpop along the lines of Depeche Mode, but were slowly going darker in sound, soon to abandon their electronic music and embracing Industrial Rock.

    For many like me, (Every Day Is) Halloween was an anthem of those walking among the more “alternative” folks. The punks, industrialites, new wavers, early ravers, etc. A teen club in Chicago, Medusa’s, more or less made that tune an anthem. I’ll especially never forget when Old Style Beer filmed commercials in the club, pumping (Every Day Is) Halloween all over the country on TV at a time when the US was embracing house music.

    Nowadays you’ll hear the tune played in bars on Halloween weekend, but it’s always held a very special place in my heart.

    October 30, 2015 at 10:19 pm #2287761
    Alex Moschopoulos
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    Also this one in loving memory of singer Diane Charlemagne:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx9-fjlh7Y4

    Title: Inner City Life
    Artist: Goldie
    Label: FFRR Records

    Year released: 1995
    Genre(s): Drum and Bass

    I’ll admit, back in the 90s I wasn’t deeply into broken beat sounds such as the rising sounds of nu-school breaks, jungle, and D&B. I was too enamored by the 4 on tha floor sound of house. However, it was Goldie who more or less redefined broken beats out of the past sounds of Rave/Hardcore and into the potential future of sounds such a Big Beat.

    I remember when I watched the documentary Pump Up The Volume, and they touched on Goldie, I was impressed so much that I obtained a copy of Inner City Life just to play on my phone. It’s such a soulful and sophisticated sound that stands differently from the mass amount of jungle and D&B that carried those hard tweaky basslines that were the precurser to the brostep sound.

    It’s a shame that Diane Charlemagne died recently, but that’s life I guess.

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