The Unknown Beauty Of The 80s
I could not resist. So to end the year in style I decided to come up with two new compilations to round up the number to 70. Volume 69 Volume 70
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The Unknown Beauty Of The 80s
Back to 2005 when I created a compilation series of eighties tracks collected from various sources over the internet. The series ended after 60 volumes and a bonus volume. Ten years after date I picked up the project by trying to find all featured tracks in a 320Kbps MP3 rip. It took me several months but in the end was able to get the job done. The funny thing is that each time I was triggered to return to those 80s music styles after I decided to quit, or taking a break from, writing for the Dutch progressive rock magazine iO Pages. This summer the magazine celebrated their 150 issue. For me time to call it a day. So as expected I turned back to the 80s favorite music styles like new wave, post punk, synthpop, gothic and more. Over the months I collected a lot of new unknown songs to me and created seven new volumes. Through this blog entry I temporarily offer you, just before Christmas, the volumes 62 to 68 as seperate downloads. So what can you expect. A great bunch of,...
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