Lately on Conflict Diamonds Radio I’ve been exploring a theme called “I Hate The 80s” where I play 80s music (meaning 80s sounding if not always literally from the 1980s) while avoiding all the typical video hits. Lots of italo disco, cold wave, proto-EBM, house, techno, and synthpop. This blossomed into a fortnight-long Giorgio Moroder bender, which produced an entire show focused on his productions. A friend was generous enough to not only record several shows on cassette, but also to rip them to mp3s.
So in a rather absurd example of media transfer, several of these songs have traveled 30 years on a journey from vinyl to mp3 to CD-R to internet radio to cassette to mp3. All just to get to you. Don’t you feel special? Files below; each is about 30 minutes long. As you might imagine there are lots of sonic idiosyncrasies; I had to leave out the EXCELLENT Side A of one due to quality issues. You get what you pay for. Tracklists will be forthcoming.
April 25, 2009 at 6:12 pm |
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. Love love EBM and italo.
April 25, 2009 at 6:14 pm |
nice post.. the 80′ is not that bad.
April 26, 2009 at 2:13 pm |
Thanks. The name is a bit of cheek — “I Love The 80s” is a series of pop culture nostalgia shows here in the US, focusing on the most obvious fads and video hits. I try to plow the fertile underground instead.
I’ll do another installment this Friday from 4-6 PM Central Standard Time. Check it out at http://www.uicradio.org.
April 26, 2009 at 1:19 pm |
Looks nice. We seem to have remarkably similar music tastes what with the 80s material and the second world bass stuff. I’ll give it a listen!
May 21, 2009 at 5:49 pm |
То что бредомысли это точно :)
Видно настиг творческий кризис. Мысле нет о чем писать :)
May 24, 2009 at 11:55 pm |
Давно искала эту информацию, спасибо.