The rare side of the '80s

The '80s can be many things, depending on where you choose to grab 'em. They can be both Boy George and Mötley Crüe, Madonna and Van Halen, Michael Cretu and Whitesnake, Michael Jackson and Public Enemy, Prince and Run-D.M.C, Billy Joel and Def Leppard, Tina Turner and Duran Duran, Talking Heads and Simply Red, David Bowie and New Order, Pointer Sisters and Sonic Youth -oh my god this could go on forever.

So far so good, but the '80s can also be this

and this

and this

 and this

This could go on forever as well. Only in this case you'll have to dig a little bit deeper.

tracks' info: 
-Raw Silk - Just in time & space
West End Records 1983 

-Kwick - Nightlife
To the point
EMI America 1981

-Khemistry - Who's fooling who
Khemistry
Columbia 1982

-Gwen McCrae - Keep the fire burnin'
On my way
Atlantic 1982

The A.B. era

For me there's a B.B. and an A.B. era. The B.B. would be the Before Breakbot period in time, when if anyone would tell me "check out this set, half hour - 30 tracks", I would kindly excuse myself and start running to save me and my ears from a -without much doubt- lousy megamix.

The A.B. era began when I carefully listened to the Breakbot Sunday Selecta set on a Sunday morning - yeah, ironic, I know. Breakbot (Thibaud Berland) has so skillfully mixed 33 tracks in 33 minutes, that if I could describe the set with 3 words, they would be flow, flow and flow.

It's not only the mixing, of course, since Breakbot has given his magic touch to most of the tracks, but in general we have to admit it: this dude is wicked. Thank God (that is whoever put the tracklist together) the tracklist was right there, but don't expect to find the exact and whole original versions in the set - the tracks are "breakbotted".

Check out here for the tracklist and here for a free download.

Also, you might need to kiss your lazy Sunday goodbye. It ain't gonna be lazy after all, I promise you.

(personal favorite part of the set: when Kashif, Conway&Temple and Kwick "meet").

set info: Breakbot - Lazy Sunday Selecta - A mixtape for the sun