Electronic Dance Music 80s

dance*électro*80

synthés futur 2000

*énergie*mélodies*euphorie*

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[…] is that dance music no longer provides the kind of emotional release that it once did, through collective catharsis. So there is this turn inwards, and also a fantasy of a kind of publically displayed inwardness: the widely expressed artistic ideal of “I want my tracks to make people cry on the dancefloor”. Because if people were getting their release in the old way (collective euphoria), why would tears be needed?
Simon Reynolds