Skip to main content

Search


Results for: 1985 Music

FREE COURSE SAMPLES

PB’s resident Ableton Wizard Freddy Frogs shows us the ropes. 

We join PB Course Developer and Ableton-certified Trainer Freddy Frogs for a breakdown of...

The ‘Purple Rain’ artist pioneered numerous award winning websites...

The Prince Online Museum launched today (4th July), an archive of the ‘Purple Rain’ star’s websites spanning nearly 20 years, which shows the pioneering artists...

Position: 41
Movement:   13
Position: 33
Movement:   5
Pharoah Sanders

The American spiritual jazz luminary passed away "peacefully" in Los Angeles

American spiritual jazz legend Pharoah Sanders has died aged 81. The news was confirmed by Sanders’ label, Luaka Bop, via Twitter on Saturday (24th September)...

Various pieces of artwork for Bronski Beat's 'Smalltown Boy'

Released on 25th May 1984, ‘Smalltown Boy’ launched the gay synth-pop band Bronski Beat into the charts and onto dancefloors with its glorious synths, hi-NRG production and Jimmy Somerville’s soaring falsetto, which sang a story of rejection, pain and escape. Here, with the help of musicians, its iconic video's director and others, Bailey Slater explores how, four decades on, it remains an unflinching anthem of queer liberation

When you think of the voices that defined a generation, the 1980s had plenty of options. From Sade and Sinead O’Connor to George Michael and...

With tracks like ‘That’s The Way Love Is’ and ‘Right Back To You,’ Ten City’s 1989 debut album, ‘Foundation,’ set the standard for what vocal...

If songwriting and arrangement were as valued as sonic innovation in the history of dance music, then Chicago vocal house group Ten City would be...

RIP Earl Smith...

Earl Smith, known to the world as DJ Spank-Spank and a founding member of acid house group Phuture, has died.

The cause of death is...

The six-hour stream will be exclusively broadcast via TikTok

Berlin's Love Parade is set to host a “fundraver” live stream for its 2022 event.

After coronavirus restrictions forced the team to cancel this year's...

A crowdfunder has been launched to ensure ‘30 Years of the Polish Techno Scene’ is published

A crowdfunder has been launched to publish a book about Poland's techno scene.

Launched by Radosław Tereszczuk, Artur Wojtczak and Łukasz Krajewski, three key members of Poland's...

Widescreen mixes by ambient guru race to No.1!

In a parallel universe, the trippy, floaty, cinematic DJ mixes of Mixmaster Morris would be top of the charts — essential for any post-club after-party...

A true acid house original, DJ Pierre (aka Nathaniel Pierre Jones) is one of the architects of dance music as we know it.

With Phuture, he was responsible for unleashing the dark sulphuric funk of seminal 303 cut 'Acid Trax' in 1987, forever remapping the genetic code of...

Position: 46
Movement:   13

Documentary by Lil’ Louis seeks to find the answer

Steve Monite's 'Only You' to get official vinyl release on Soundway Records

It's the first time the album has been reissued

Steve Monite's classic '80s boogie album 'Only You', featuring the well-known cut of the same name, is to be reissued on vinyl for the first...