Some time around 99 I bought a keyboard with some phat bass sounds that also had a grip of hilarious cheesey 80s synth tones. As a joke I rocked an 80s style track that sounded so hilariously good that I kept on going until I had full set. THe best four tracks ended up on Summer In Paradise. I had been hearing 80s revival since about 91, when I was in one of the backstage areas of the Limelight and found a bunch of Tranni’s dancing to Rock the Casbah and other early 80s cuts. During the 80s, every day after school, the local geto Detroit TV station, channel 62, used to play a new wave dance show called MV3 broadcast out Los Angeles. It mixed videos with an American Band Stand dance party. It was followed by The Scene, a Detroit local Soul Train style dance show. Eventually the Scene was replaced by The New Dance show with a more Techno influenced style. As Ive described in previous blogs, in Detroit there was a big cross over between New Wave and Funk. The local Urban station’s most popular prime time DJ would rock sets of Devo, and Thomas Dolby. The New Wave station would play Prince and Kool Moe Dee. Around that time I would buy new wave records and even DJ’d some dances at my highschool. So my 80s style cuts are based on a deep knowledge of real New Wave disco electro funk. “Don’t be Cruel Anastasia” is the last cut on Summer in Paradise, an album I released on the Lovecraft Technologies label around 00. I had been sitting on some tracks that we’re really Wordsound mat