Pretty confidently bonkers slice of American industrial here from Ministry. Shunning drum dynamics in favour of just virtually pounding the crap out of some drum pads, it’s quite obvious that samplers were still a pretty new invention. There’s also a rather paranoid pseudo-acid bassline worming it’s way underneath and some high-pitched Prince-esque vocals in a...

A delicious pouring of 80s electro Francopop. There’s a moment at around the 2 minute 20 mark where Isabelle Antena‘s vocals drop out and the rhythm section starts to develop that is sheer Balearic bliss. Je l’adore!  

I dug this one out of… well, Youtube (Discogs purchase impending!) ‘cos it’s an absolute corker. There are two versions that I can make out, and this is the 1980 one. Whether or not he was involved in the original I’m unsure, but Paul Sabu has a credit on the 1981 Handshake version, which doesn’t surprise...

Ah, Heaven 17. Back when I was a wee young whipper-snapper at school, my music teacher tried to foist a Heaven 17 album on me. At the time I think I was desperately trying to prove a point by listening to trip-hop nonsense so I more or less cackled in his face. Of course nowadays I baulk at the memory as I clearly missed out on an early introduction to a...