Continuing in our series looking at at each year from the decade that shaped electronic music perhaps more than any other, we arrive at 1983, a huge year not only in terms of albums and singles released but also in terms of technology.
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Continuing with the series, today we take a look at the year that was 1981. Here’s a playlist of some interesting tracks:
A lot of fantastic albums released in 1981, including Prince’s Controversy, Chaka Khan’s What Cha’ Gonna Do for Me, Kraftwerk’s Computer World, Nightclubbing (Grace Jones), an eponymous album from The Time (also Prince produced), Devo’s New Traditionalists, Kool & The Gang’s Something Special, Ghost in the Machine by The Police, For Those About to Rock We Salute You by AC/DC and the much sampled Tom Tom Club.
As genre defining classics go it’s hard to look past Marvin Gaye’s Ain’t no Mountain High Enough as a candidate for an exemplary Motown soul song.