80’s Dance

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“Travel back in time with the “80s Dance” channel’s non-stop party dance songs! Relive the GenX era and dance to the decade’s biggest hits.”

Bright, thick acrylic paint swirls in green, red, yellow, blue and orange fill the square background, overlaid by distressed white block letters reading ERASURE and smaller yellow text saying THE DIVA TRIBUTE, with a narrow yellow banner at top reading PARTY FAVORZ; artwork for the Party Favorz episode “Diva Hall of Fame: Erasure Tribute Volume 1 (.
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Erasure | The DIVA Dance Legacy Tribute Volume 1

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In the twilight of 1986, I found myself back in my hometown, rebooting life after a pause post-high school. As fate would have it, I returned to C&C Music/Video—a place that had worked for during my high school years. Erasure’s “Oh L’amour…

Bold black-outlined text reading PARTY FAVORZ spans the white top, a dense hand-drawn black scribble sits centered below it, and stylized black text PURE ENERGY and large red block letters BACKSPIN 80'S appear beneath; artwork for the Party Favorz episode “80s Dance Alternative Megamix: Pure Energy (2017).”.
80s Dance Music Classics

Pure Energy | 80’s Alternative Dance Megamix

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So my last post for Pump Up the Volume was a hot mess of ideas. I’ve gone back and provided more coherence to my ramblings so as to follow-up with this final set.

These days, I’ve got a lot of ideas running through my tiny brain and the more …

Bold white 'PARTY FAVORZ' at top, cyan slanted 'PUMP UP THE VOLUME' beneath, black-and-white checkerboard background, red arched 'BACKSPIN 80's' over a large black vinyl record, a yellow Pac-Man and four colorful ghost characters along the record edge; artwork for Party Favorz episode "80s Dance Megamix: Pump Up the Volume (2017).
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Pump Up the Volume | 80’s Alternative Dance Megamix

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Continuing where we left off yesterday, the 80’s was a dearth of diversity in musical styles. The primary focus over these three volumes includes industrial music and it’s more commercial off-spring.

If anyone watches AMC’s ‘Catch and Halt’ F…

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80s Dance Music Classics

Hit That Perfect Beat! | 80’s Alternative Dance Megamix

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After last year’s 70s indulgence with the Trash Disco series, Party Favorz is moving a decade forward. In typical fashion, I try to do something that’s not so obvious, which better reflects who I was and what I was into by the end of the decade …