MIXTAPE: 80s Mixtape #6

I'm changing things up again with this edition of 80s Mixtape. #6 focuses mainly on delicious Italo disco, Hi NRG and Electro flavorings, with a pinch of synth pop during the 2nd half of Side B. Feel the energy - let it move you!

80s Mixtape #6








SIDE A

Wish Key: Orient Express (Vocal Version)
M & G: When I Let You Down
My Mine: Hypnotic Tango (12" Version)
Rose: Fairy-Tale
People Like Us: Heart In The Night
MCL: New York (Dancefloor-Cut)
Section 25: Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix)

SIDE B

Topo & Roby: Under The Ice (Vocal Version)

Cyber People: Void Vision

Agents Aren't Aeroplanes: The Upstroke

Velodrome: Capataz

Dono Detti: Man Unlimited

Fad Gadget: Lady Shave

Severed Heads: We Have Come To Bless This House

Experimental Products: Glowing In The Dark

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MIXTAPE: 80s Mixtape #5

I decided to get a bit more diverse with this 5th one. While there's still plenty of New Wave/Synth Pop to be found, I branched out a little and hit a bit on Darkwave and Industrial, as well as some early Minimal Synth work from The Fallout Club (a pre-solo Thomas Dolby collaboration) and the timeless O Superman, by Laurie Anderson. You'll find some Alien Sex Fiend and Thrill Kill Kult, and even the classic Liquid Liquid track, Cavern! Hope y'all dig it. 

80s Mixtape #5








SIDE A

The Jetzons: Hard Times
Our Daughter's Wedding: Target For Life
Thomas Leer: International (Global Mix)
Dalek I: Destiny (Dalek I Love You)
Paul Nelson: Automated Man
Vocoder: Hacker
Autumn: Synthesize
The Fallout Club: The Beat Boys
Laurie Anderson: O Superman (For Massenet)

SIDE B

Ohama: Julie Is A TV Set (12" Extended)

Alien Sex Fiend: Isolation

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult: Devil Bunnies

R.L. Crutchfield's Dark Day: Raven's Wing

Severed Heads: A Million Angels

Minny Pops: Mountain

Casino Music: Vite et Bien

Liquid Liquid: Cavern

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MIXTAPE: 80s Mixtape #4

It's time for another mixtape of some of the best new wave/synthwave to be birthed from the 80s! Turn up the volume, turn up the heat! 

80s Mixtape #4








SIDE A

Comix: Walkman Video

SSQ: Screaming In My Pillow

Ohama: T.V.

Hard Corps: Je Suis Passée

SS-Say: Care

xex: Delta Five

Eurythmics: Jennifer

Fred Schneider & The Shake Society: Orbit

Casino Music: Viol AF 015

SIDE B

Circuit 7: Video Boys

Soft Cell: Memorabilia

Informatics: The Great X-1

Thomas Dolby: One Of Our Submarines (Extended Version)

Parade Ground: Off Balance

Blancmange: Murder

Ebn-Ozn: AEIOU Sometimes Y

Toni Basil: Space Girls

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MIXTAPE: 80s Mixtape #3

Hidey ho, everybody! The last 80s mixtape got me super motivated to make another, so here you go! No real theme this time; there are underground and mainstream artists co-mingling with each other on both sides. Turn up your speakers and go wild! 

80s Mixtape #3







SIDE A

Prince feat. Vanity: Vibrator
Deux: Sex & Trouble
Comix: Touche Pas Mon Sexe
Autumn: Laughter Of A Madman
Trans-X: Digital World
Madonna & Otto Von Wernherr: Wild Dancing
Into The East: I Stand Still
A Blaze Colour: Nowhere Else (Live)
Vicious Pink: 8:15 To Nowhere (12" Mix)

SIDE B

The B-52's: Cake (Original Mix)

Sparks feat. Jane Wiedlin: Lucky Me, Lucky You

Divine: Love Reaction

Gay Cat Park: I Am A Vocoder

Circuit 7: The Force

Linear Movement: I Think I'm By You

Cee Farrow: Backwards

Alexander Robotnick: Problèmes D'Amour (12" Mix)

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MIXTAPE: 80s Mixtape #2

Another weekend, another 80s mixtape! The theme this time is 'Underground/Overground'. Side A consists of lesser-known underground acts, and side B, more mainstream/well-known artists. Turn up the volume and start your weekend (or any day of the week, for that matter) right!

80s Mixtape #2








SIDE A - Underground

Voice Farm: Lost Adults
Hilary: Goose Step Two Step
Oppenheimer Analysis: Radiance
Second Glance: Shackles & Chains
Xex: Heartbeat
Aaah...!: Slip Away
Lou Champagne System: Machine Muzik
Software Seduction: Try
Parade Ground: Retired
Visiting Kids: Microwave Babies

SIDE B - Overground

Tom Tom Club: Suboceana (Dream Master Remix)

Talk Talk: Such A Shame (12" U.S. Remix - Extended Version)

B-Movie: Nowhere Girl (Long Version)

Toni Basil: Suspense (Club Version)

Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. Thomas Dolby: Field Work (London Mix)

XTC: Making Plans for Nigel

Men Without Hats: I Got The Message

Devo: Out Of Sync

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MIXTAPE: 80s Mixtape #1

I know I've been quiet the past couple of months. Things haven't been so dull in Riverdull. But I wanted to pop in the ol' juke joint to share a new mixtape from yours truly - the first in a new series of 80s mixtapes, in the style of the old mixes we made back in the good old days! This first volume is a "guys vs gals" approach, with male vocals on side A and female vocals on side B, featuring two songs from each artist. Take a little trip back in time to possibly discover some new music.

80s Mixtape #1








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track list:

A1. Play: Red Movies
A2. Play: In My Mind (12" Version)
A3. Cee Farrow: Lost And Memorized
A4. Cee Farrow: Distant Picture
A5. Thomas Dolby: The Wreck Of The Fairchild
A6. Thomas Dolby: Flying North (High Altitude Extended Play)
A7. The Buggles: I Love You (Miss Robot)
A8. The Buggles: On TV

B1. Torch Song: Microdot Daylight
B2. Torch Song: Can't Find My Way Home
B3. Missing Persons: Surrender Your Heart
B4. Missing Persons: No Secrets
B5. Vicious Pink: Fetish
B6. Vicious Pink: Always Hoping
B7. Danielle Dax: Cat House
B8. Danielle Dax: Big Hollow Man

JUKEBOX: Anoraak feat. Lydmor - Evolve

Whoa! Here's a brand new, soul-shaking single from France's synthpop master, Anoraak, featuring astonishingly beautiful vocals from Denmark's Lydmor. From Anoraak's new EP, Black Gold Sun, released this week to your favorite digital music providers.

ANORAAK feat. LYDMOR: Evolve

JUKEBOX: Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill

Today, ethereal shoegaze legends, Slowdive released another new video/single from their upcoming album (their first release in 22 years!), which will be released on May 5! 

SLOWDIVE: Sugar For The Pill

JUKEBOX: Thieves Like Us - Moon

A brand new music video was dropped by Thieves Like Us yesterday. Woot!
From their 5th studio album, 'Thieves Like Us', released in January.

Thieves Like Us: Moon

JUKEBOX: The Green Nuns Of The Revolution - Klunk (Psilocybian Remix)

Ooh, yeah! An outstanding new remix of a classic Goa trance track! Wacky, wobbly and weird - a true psychedelic dance floor monster. Turn it up!

The Green Nuns Of The Revolution: Klunk (Psilocybian Remix)

JUKEBOX: Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (Rex The Dog Beats In Space Bootleg)

Electro-bleeper Rex The Dog moves us to the nth hoop with his remix of the classic dance-funk hit, 'Groove Is In The Heart', by Deee-Lite! 

Deee-Lite: Groove Is In The Heart (Rex The Dog Beats In Space Bootleg)

LIVE ACT: Slowdive @ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London, 05/18/2014

Here's an up-close-and-personal performance from ethereal shoegaze rock legends, Slowdive, from their massively successful 2014 reunion tour (which led to the recording of a new album, soon to be released). 

Slowdive @ Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London, 05/18/2014

JUKEBOX: Emerson Star - La Dolce Vita

Prepare yourself for an amazing sound from LA indie psych-rockers, Emerson Star. The band's own description of their music: "Emerson Star provides catchy indie-rock psych-pop harmony driven tunes for dat ass." Indeed. From their 2016 EP, 'Great Escaper'.

Emerson Star: La Dolce Vita

JUKEBOX: 213 - Nightmare

This song is the only non-scored music in Wes Craven's 1984 masterpiece, 'A Nightmare On Elm Street', and plays during the film's end credits. Not much is known about this band, other than they were an LA band that split up soon after the release of the movie. According to message board postings, they had a handful of unreleased tracks and demos that have been in a legal limbo due to disputes between the band members. As of 2009, the band had apparently mended ways and planned on releasing an album. I can't find any information at all beyond that, however.

213: Nightmare

JUKEBOX: Guy Moon - Theme From Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

Keeping with today's theme of music from 80's horror movies, here is the theme/title song from the wonderfully zany and campy, Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama! This one was a late-night favorite, and was shown regularly on USA's Up All Night (albeit heavily edited). The movie was about a couple of sorority pledges (scream queen legends Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer) who, as part of their initiation ceremony, must break into the shopping mall after hours and steal a trophy from the bowling alley and return it to their sorority sisters. Assisting them along the way are 3 nerds, and a streetwise thief named spider (played by another legendary scream queen, Linnea Quigley). They accidentally release an ancient imp, who promises to grant each person one wish, without telling them that there is just one little catch: you must pay with your soul! 

Guy Moon: Theme From Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

JUKEBOX: Wednesday Week - If Only

Here's another song from the soundtrack of a classic 80s teen slasher flick; this time being the wacky musical-horror opus, Slumber Party Massacre 2! The movie revolves around a girl band being stalked/murdered by a rockabilly killer with a guitar-shaped drill and an Elvis complex. 

The songs "performed" by the girls are actually performed by a band called Wednesday Week. The actresses (including TV's Wings' Crystal Bernard as the lead) did their best to give the illusion that they were playing instruments/singing, but the band had a different opinion in the documentary, 'Sleepless Nights: The Making of the Slumber Party Massacre Trilogy'...

Wednesday Week: If Only








*Check out the scene from the movie!

JUKEBOX: Sounds of $uksexx - Subway Station

This rock song is best known for being the song performed during the party scene in the 1988 teen slasher classic, 'Cheerleader Camp' (aka 'Bloody Pom Poms'), starring Betsy Russell, Lucinda Dickey, Leif Garrett, Teri Wiegel and George "Buck" Flower!

Sounds of $uksexx: Subway Station

LIVE ACT: Blancmange - Live At The Ritz, 1985

A terrific concert from British synth-pop duo, Blancmange, broadcast on MTV in 1985! 

Blancmange: Live At The Ritz, 1985

LIVE ACT: Algebra Suicide - Boys In Bed

Speaking of Lydia Tomkiw and Algebra Suicide (see previous post), here is a rare clip of one of their live performances in their hometown of Chicago, sometime in the 80s. 

Algebra Suicide: Boys In Bed (Live in Chicago)

JUKEBOX: Lydia Tomkiw - Thief

Lydia Tomkiw is from the music/poetry duo, Algebra Suicide. I remember hearing about Algebra Suicide as a teenager, but I had always assumed from the name that they were some sort of high school punk rock band and never gave it much thought. Then I heard their music. Wow. Beautiful, haunting poetry spoken by Lydia in her trademark monotonic style over the dreamy post-punk guitar riffs of Don Hedeker. I was in love with this music instantly. 

This song is from Lydia's 1995 solo album, Incorporated. Sadly, Lydia passed away in 2007. She is surely missed, but her words and music will live on.

Lydia Tomkiw: Thief

JUKEBOX: Tullycraft - Sent To The Moon

This song was in my dream last night, so now it's here on my page. Like magic! 

From the 2002 album, Beat Surf Fun.

Tullycraft: Sent To The Moon

JUKEBOX: Courtney Love - Highlights

No, not that Courtney Love. This Courtney Love is a twee duo from the early 90s, with indie legend Lois Maffeo on vocals/guitar and Pat Maley on drums! 

Courtney Love: Highlights

JUKEBOX: Heavenly - Shallow

Here is "Shallow", from the 1990 debut album by the lovely twee band, Heavenly, which consisted of members of Talulah Gosh.  

Heavenly: Shallow

JUKEBOX: The B-52's - Instrumentals

There are a few bands/artists you're going to be seeing quite a bit of here on my blog. The B-52's is one such band. Here is a collection of instrumental songs, versions and karaoke tracks from the world's greatest party band!

The B-52's: Rock Lobster (Instrumental)

The B-52's: Party Out Of Bounds (Instrumental)





The B-52's: Runnin' Around (Instrumental)





The B-52's: Give Me Back My Man (Instrumental)





The B-52's: Work That Skirt





The B-52's: Follow Your Bliss





The B-52's: Roam (Instrumental)

The B-52's: Love Shack (12" Instrumental Extended Maxi Version)

The B-52's: The World's Green Laughter

The B-52s: Funplex (Peaches Pleasure Seeker Instrumental)





*BONUS!

The B-52's: Loveland (Frankreich Instrumental Cover)

MIXTAPE - Secret Stash #3

Here's my newest Secret Stash mixtape! 70+ minutes of seamlessly-shifting musical atmospheres, including spoken word/comedy, blissful ambient/downtempo electronica, dark industrial, early experimental, indie rock, post-rock, synth pop and even a little bit of Subgenius dogma thrown in for good measure. Sure to make your brain sparkle and shine!

Jughead Joneser: Secret Stash #3







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track list:

Sleep Clinic: High Above A Frozen Steppe
Ron Jacobs: A Child's Garden Of Grass: A Pre-Legalization Comedy (Excerpts)
Healer: Continents
Darling Kandie: Untitled End
John Watermann: Proper Channeling: Left, Right And Centre (Night-Cap For Shirley Maclaine)
Meat Beat Manifesto: Want Ads One
Memory Cassette: Last One Awake
Twin Sister: Milk & Honey
Telepathe: Bells
Bernard Nguyen: To Climb A Mountain
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs: Dobbshole 2 - The Dirty Dogma Hole
Western Rebel Alliance: Slewake
Code: Parsifal (The Grand Architect Mix)
Main: VIII
Blue: Diamanda

LIVE ACT: Ultra Bidé @ Cake Shop, NYC - October 26, 2013

A blistering live set from Koyoto, Japan's ultra grunge rockers, Ultra Bidé.

Ultra Bidé @ Cake Shop, NYC - October 26, 2013

JUKEBOX: Martha And The Muffins - This Is The Ice Age

The title track from the 1981 album by Martha and The Muffins. Am I crazy, or is this song about taking LSD?

Martha And The Muffins: This Is The Ice Age

JUKEBOX: Voice Farm - Elevate

Here is the B-side to strange synthpoppers Voice Farm's debut single, Double Garage. From 1981.

Voice Farm: Elevate

JUKEBOX: Hypercube - Emulsio Factis

Here's a fun and quirky experimental electronic track from the 1996 album, Earobics. I see the end..I see the beginning!

Hypercube: Emulsio Factis

LIVE ACT: The B-52's @ Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ - November 7, 1980

You don't want to miss this one. Everyone's favorite party band in an early live show, performing songs from their first two albums!

The B-52's @ Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ - November 7, 1980

LIVE ACT: xex @ Hurrah, New York City, April 9, 1981

I love the fact that this footage exists. A full live set from the New Jersey underground synth band, xex! Be a good Bolshevik, don't be no no-goodnik. 

xex @ Hurrah, New York City, April 9, 1981

JUKEBOX: Toni Basil - Space Girls

Just because, here is Toni Basil covering Devo's 'Space Girl Blues'. The awesome video features Toni dancing with her then-boyfriend, Spazz Attack (who appeared in many of Toni's videos). From the 1982 album, Word of Mouth.

Toni Basil: Space Girls

JUKEBOX: Jane Jensen - Trust

The title song from Jane Jensen's new EP, 'Trust'. I've loved Jane's music ever since her first release on Interscope Records, the 1996 album, Comic Book Whore. Well, okay, I also loved her when she played Juliet in the cult classic film, Tromeo and Juliet, from Troma Team Video, but shhh! 

Jane Jensen: Trust

JUKEBOX: Maethelvin - Central Control Room

A new track by French synth wizard, Maethelvin! Future 80s.

Maethelvin: Central Control Room





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MIXTAPE: College - Where It Begins Mix

It looks like the French synth collective, Valerie, have broken their silence recently, releasing new tracks, as well as this super neat-o mixtape from College! <3 

College: Where It Begins Mix



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