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Music Tuesday #089: Eclectic Electric episode 2 - One hit, I wonder?

As we continue from last week's dive into 80s nostalgia I present to you something weird.  This is right about the moment we started seeing dance music in the pop charts.  One of the first to appear next to pop royalty at that time: think Madonna, Freddie Mercury, Prince, Peter Gabriel, Janet Jackson, Percy Sledge.  All these were in the top 30 pop chart at the same time together with Ziggy.
This song was very popular at the time in the clubs and hence made it tot the charts.  It is an example of late Italo disco of the 80s and feels like the precursor to the big surge of Euro house and techno that would follow shortly.  Discogs puts this track in the New Beat category, but to me the bpm is too high for that.  The song was released on the Holy Hole Music label based in Varsenare, Belgium.  That label has released some weird stuff.  Will have to look further into that!

I couldn't find the song on Spotify, luckily YouTube is becoming the biggest music archive ever.

The the song title is a big giveaway regarding the lyrics, so don't go in with high expectations.  Anyway, if you listen carefully you will hear references to a couple of pop songs you may know. 

Ziggy - Dance Dance Dance (in the middle of the night)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXeC1deSDwU

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