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Pump Up The Volume – MARRS – Released August 24th, 1987, 4AD Records Pump Up The Volume is the 1987 hit single from MARRS and one of the first tracks to properly introduce scratching, sampling and house music to mainstream radio audiences. Few one hit wonders have had quite the same impact that this has … Read more
Beat Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Volume 1 and 2 – Released 1984, Atlantic Records In 1984 Atlantic Records released two separate soundtrack albums for the Orion Pictures breakdancing movie, Beat Street. The movie was only just beaten to theatres by the Cannon Pictures produced Breakin’, which also sought to cash in on the … Read more
Bladerunner OST – Vangelis – Released June 6th 1994, East/West Records Bladerunner OST is the official Vangelis soundtrack album to the 1982 scifi classic, Bladerunner. Despite the huge success of the movie, and the critical acclaim Vangelis’ score received, the actual soundtrack release was inexplicably delayed for 12 years. As is often with these types … Read more
Phorward – The Shamen – Released May 1989, Moksha Records Phorward is the third full-length release by psychedelic indie kids-turned rave geezers, The Shamen. Initially released on 10” vinyl, Phorward is not considered a full album but rather a “mini album”. Phorward was released just a few months after their second album, In Gorbachev We … Read more
X-Mix – Jack The Box – Hardfloor – May 4, 1998, !K7 Records X-Mix Jack the Box is a 1998 mix album from German acid techno pioneers Hardfloor. It’s packed with seminal acid house classics alongside some of Hardfloor’s own tracks. It is the seventh in the popular 90s X-Mix series, which also featured … Read more
Jam On Revenge – Newcleus – Released 1984 Jam On Revenge is the debut album from US electro/funk group Newcleus. It’s a textbook 80s electro album, which puts Kraftwerk, p funk, Planet Rock, hiphop and breakdance culture into a funky space blender mixed up with some comic book heroics and glittering Afrofuturist vibes. Forty years … Read more
In Gorbachev We Trust – The Shamen – 1989 – Released January 30th, 1989 Demon Records / Fiend 666 Named in honour of the last ever president of the USSR, the Shamen’s second studio album was a strange and seductive synergy of acid smiley euphoria, 60s psychedelia and concrete Soviet perestroika. It unknowingly inaugurated a … Read more
Scarface (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Various – Released December 9th, 1983 This month sees the 40th anniversary of one of the most influential gangster movies of all time. 1983’s Scarface stars Al Pacino as Cuban immigrant-turned-coke kingpin Tony Montana and a young Michelle Pfeiffer as Elvira, his loveless love interest. The … Read more
To understand the island of Ireland in 1987 let me paint you a monochromatic picture. Unemployment was at 18%, the country was still officially classified as a third-world shithole, the Catholic Taliban was firmly in control, it was easier for young people to score heroin than to buy condoms, gangs of capricious nuns roamed with … Read more