... Link: 80-s New Wave - Dance Night At The Temple Vol.

Collectors argue endlessly over which volume is the definitive version. Ask ten different Gen Xers, you will get eleven different answers. You cannot listen to "80s New Wave - Dance Night At The Temple Vol. ..." while wearing sweatpants. It is physically impossible. The music demands a costume.

Recently, record labels like and Dark Entries have begun officially licensing the tracks from these bootleg volumes. For the first time, you can buy a pristine, 180-gram pressing of the setlist that used to exist only on hissy, fourth-generation tapes.

Search for "80s New Wave - Dance Night At The Temple Vol. ..." on your favorite streaming service or vinyl auction site tonight. The temple doors are always open for the lost children of the synth. 80-s New Wave - Dance Night At The Temple Vol. ...

is the raw, punk-electro hybrid. Vol. 2 introduces the synth-pop melancholia (Yazoo, Erasure). Vol. 3 leans heavily into the EBM (Electronic Body Music) of Nitzer Ebb and Front 242.

There is a specific scent in the air of a truly great underground nightclub. It is a mix of clove cigarettes, Drakkar Noir, Aqua Net hairspray, and the specific heat generated by a thousand bodies moving in unison to a LinnDrum machine. Between 1978 and 1984, this sensory experience reached its peak in venues that weren't really venues—abandoned VFW halls, repurposed churches, and cavernous basements with leaky pipes. Collectors argue endlessly over which volume is the

This is the spiritual home of .

The answer is curation and friction. Modern algorithms serve you "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League every twelve songs. The Dance Night At The Temple series, by contrast, is curated by a human who was there . The DJ had scratches on the vinyl. The volume shifts because the cassette tape degraded slightly in the left channel. There is a bleed-over from the microphone when the DJ yells, "Make some noise for the sinners!" Recently, record labels like and Dark Entries have

By: Adrian Ryde, RetroSynth Archives