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Erasure

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Web site www.erasureinfo.com
OriginLondon
United Kingdom
Members Andy Bell
Vince Clarke
GenresSynth-pop
New Wave
Dance Music
Record labels Mute Records
Sire Records
Warner Bros. Records
Reprise Records
Elektra Records
Maverick
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About Erasure


Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of singer and songwriter Andy Bell and songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke. They formed in London in 1985 as part of the club scene. Their debut single was "Who Needs Love Like That".

How Dua Lipa and The Weeknd the 80s brings back. . again

Apr 18,2020 6:48 pm

"I am Dua and I'll be your teacher today. "

- With lycra jerseys and sweat bands, the workout video for Dua Lipa Physical is A Camp and colourful tribute to the TV rates of The 80S .

The Track itself is heavily inspired by the disco, and electronica that defined the Decade of sound.

the Same applies to the greatest song in The World right now: The Weeknd ' s Blinding lights, with its super-synth-Pop keyboard hook.

in The 1980s, is inspirational Pop Music Once Again - and the influence of artists who were not even born then.

The Sound can currently. anywhere in the mainstream-Pop of Little Mix 's for The 1975 ' s Back -catalogue to Heartbreak weather, the title track of Niall Horan 's new album

It is perhaps most evident in The whole of The Weeknd 's After-hours, especially in the saxophone crescendo In her eyes.

"For me, the definitive' 80s sound is a distinctive snare and a kick drum with a lot of kick," says Tim Mcewan , one-half of the American electronic duo The Midnight .

The Group were to create 80s-sounding Pop with All The Hallmarks of the Decade - including the great landscapes of sound, dreamy vocals and saxophone-Solos - for years.

Known as synth-wave, it is a style of electronic music, defined The Sound of the 1980s, film and game Soundtracks .

midnight, say, The 80S had the "innocence that many people crave,"

"then throw it in this dreamy synth pads to create this hyper-melodic songs. "

During The Midnight voices, All Music Is cyclical, the current wave of 80s nostalgia, maybe it's because we "miss the simplicity of another time".

" technology has taken over to such a degree, that there is something very tactile about The 80S and 90s that people discover again... that could be, cassettes, vinyl, old game cartridges. "

Some of the defining Pop songs of the 1980s

A-Ha - Take On Me

New Order - Blue Monday

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Madonna - Love In The groove

Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Me)

Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer

Kate Bush - Running Up the hill

DeBarge - Rhythm Of The Night

Spandau Ballet - Gold

Lionel Richie - All Night Long

The 80S has always been a "major music-time", but the Decade is the influence of" has "really", This Time , according to The Independent music correspondent Roisin O 'connor.

Born in the 1990s, remembers you see, The 80S music on movie Soundtracks such as " Back To The Future .

"We discover something that our parents were in, and it seems like you are, you will discover Hidden Treasure . "

Madonna found fame in the 1980s and created a look copied by millions. It is here shown on her 1985 Virgin tour

you, one of the qualities of the 1980s was the clear singing of "the dramatic baritone of Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto in ".

Dua Lipa 's singing is a Physical reminded Roisin of Debbie Harry (of Blondie ) and says that The Weeknd "is famously obsessed with Michael Jackson ."

For Dutch DJ, Oliver Heldens , born in 1995, The 80S sound is "futuristic, melancholic, but uplifting".

you grew up on disco and Eurodance, which he recently re-versioned in 1983, the Italian dance-epic.

He tasted the staccato keyboards of Yazoo 1982 hit on Me, his collaboration with Riton.

"Good Music from The Past will always be there in The Future ," he beat Radio 1 News.

The Hook when Turn Me On was. of Vince Clarke , who - as a member of Yazoo, Depeche Mode , and Erasure - pioneers of The Sound of the 1980s

"He approved the test... fortunately," says Heldens.

Vince Clarke still leads As One half of Erasure , the remain a in The 80S ' biggest-selling groups

Vince Clarke is also a big influence in The Life and career of producer and singer Jack Antonoff , who has made the music, with Taylor Swift , Lorde and Carly Rae Jepsen.

The couple worked together on Antonoff of bleachers albums Strange desire and Now Disappeared.

Speaking to Buzzfeed, in 2014, "Modern Pop Music should Just Write Vince a check for a billion dollars. "

TV has done his duty - with the colors and aesthetics of the star court Mall in Netflix the Stranger Things , like perhaps The Most visually in-your-face presentation of the ' 80s.

The Show "came at the perfect time," said Tim from The Midnight . "We definitely live in the same Universe . "

The title of the melody to Strangers, which is a perfect example of the typical sound that emerged from the 1980s

He believes that the Duffer brothers, the Stranger Things "nailed the aesthetics improved, whatever is going on else around him".

"Our last album, and children, came in the year 2018 - that was around the same time as the Third Season . A lot of people have the new discovery of us, since it came out. "

The Band is currently preparing the release of a new album later this year, the The Midnight , says Tyler Lyle , your "strongest songs" to date.

"We try to make music that feels authentic to us. "

The ' 80s throwback is perhaps at The Peak of his influence, and now, like everything in music, music-critic Roisin O 'connor thinks that The Sound may "peter out over The Next year or so".

"If you are an artist as big as The Weeknd and Dua Lipa to do it, you have reached your top level. I wouldn't be surprised if the artist soon to try new ways.

"However, it is so important, We Are never to hear the influences from This Time in Our Music . "

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