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Title
Jive 55 New Wave and 80s artists and their music
Description
The eighties don’t seem like 20 years ago, do they? Tribes of conscience and no-conscience in a whirl of post-punk and electronica. Music made us feel like dancing all the time. Without ‘e’. With MTV.
Most of the artists in the Jive 55 are New Wave and its sub-genres (New Romantic, SynthPop) because of the memories these songs trigger, and an interest in the roots of 21st century dance and pop music. Much as we lampoon formula pop or techno today, there is nothing wrong with anything in moderation. If it makes you feel something without side-effects.
We’re trying to capture the essence of an era that delivered many great moves and emotions, where some people took themselves so seriously it entertained the rest of us.
