The 1980's were different for everyone but for me along with the two-tone revival and BMX's there was the excitement of the Electro Street Sounds Cassettes. A strip of vinyl put down outside your local C and A ( were they all over the UK?) and your Ghetto Blaster and local crews would try out their moves to what became hip hop. Making mega mixes with a double cassette boom box and experiments with synths and recording ended up becoming a huge part of my life both academically and just as a jobbing producer, DJ and Musician. Lots of people dismiss the 80's for music but in many ways it was an amazing decade everything from the birth of Dance and electronic mainstream to Punk, Funk, Reggae, Industrial,Ska,Thrash and Metal bands cherry picking each other and the decades that went before setting up the conditions for Rave Culture, Grunge, Brit-Pop and the more mainstream Indie stuff that dominated the 90's

This one Electro 4 was massive check out Herbie Hancock and RUN DMC at 21:52