The Dark Side
Here are a couple of cool cuts from 1984. 1984 was an interesting year for music. The boogie greatness of 1982 was fizzling out, electro was king, and house was just getting started. These tracks highlight where genres converged and coalesced into some strange hybrids.
This first track by Zero Hour shows a lot of electro influence and can easily pass as a theme song for the oft overlooked comedy masterpiece Fletch Lives. Seems like it could have been produced by Herbie Hancock or Jan Hammer with a little help from Egyptian Lover.
The next track by Leon Love is an odd bird produced by proto house legend Patrick Adams with Ron Mindseed. It sounds a bit like electro coming dangerously close to Hi-NRG territory. Almost too close; but us in the Bay Area have a very low threshold for it.
Zero Hour - The Dark Side (Dub)
Leon Love - Once Is Enough (Dub)
Posted by Joel Brüt | 3 comments
Labels: 1984, electro, Patrick Adams
February 3, 2012 at 12:17 AM
Something has happened 2012. Some shift, some change. Every post for the last 10 posts together signal something different. Cohesive, loving but maybe apprehensive. Maybe I'm a fool for you....love is a hurting thing! - and then those strings...
February 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM
LOVE the Dark Side! Once Is Enough is a grower. Thank you!
March 5, 2012 at 5:28 PM
really feeling the dark side, many thanks :)