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Monday, August 14, 2017

Escape from New York


Certainly in a nod to the 1981 John Carpenter film a band named themselves Escape from New York and came out with the incredibly infectious single Save our Love in 1983.  A nice hybrid between electro and italo disco and a real influential record that year.


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Their next single a year later Fire in my Heart was equally brilliant.  More on the italo disco sleaze tip.  It was very rare and would fetch hundreds of dollars on eBay so in 2016 it was re-pressed.  Here I have an edit.


The band had previously been known as Airstrip-One.  They were decidedly more new wave then.


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