Reading Bret Easton-Ellis again, who obsesses over early 80s chart music, reminded me of one of my mixtapes, circa 1983. I was 12 or so. Pretty mainstream fare, much of it distinctly 'uncool'. Some of this stuff is by now unlistenable, or rather I'd be extremely unlikely to listen to it again. #80smixtape
As much as songs evoke the period, for me it's the sounds you take in passively that really give those Proustian rushes: Low-budget TV ad music; straight-to-video synth ident jingles on video rental shop tapes (&, yes, the fuzzy porn tapes that got passed around at school). Tangerine Dream is all that. #Nowplaying#vinyl#vaporwave#hauntology
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