80s music

The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.

🪞Hauntology and the Echoes of Forgotten Futures . AI-Generated.
In the fog-drenched halls of dark ambient music, there's a particular kind of ghost that lingers—not just specters of the past, but hauntings from futures we imagined and lost.
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
🪞Music as Mirror: How Sound Reflects What We Can’t Say . AI-Generated.
Some emotions are too complex for words. Grief that slips between sadness and numbness. Joy that feels almost painful. A sense of longing for something you can’t name.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
🕯️ Threshold Music: Soundtracking Liminal Spaces in Dark Ambient . AI-Generated.
We are always crossing thresholds. From sleep to waking. From memory to moment. From solitude to connection. And sometimes, from one identity to another.
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
🚪 Between Worlds: Liminality and Threshold Emotion in Dark Ambient . AI-Generated.
There’s a moment before the dream begins. There’s a breath between the inhale and the exhale. There’s a hallway, a mist, a doorway not yet stepped through.
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
✨ Music as a Portal: Escaping Reality Through Sound . AI-Generated.
We all have moments where reality feels too loud, too heavy, or just… off. And in those moments, music becomes more than sound—it becomes a portal.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
🗺️ Sound as a Place: How Music Becomes Emotional Geography . AI-Generated.
Close your eyes. Think of the last song that truly moved you. Now think: Where did it take you? Not just emotionally—but physically, spatially. Did it drop you into a rainy city at midnight? A sunlit rooftop in summer? An empty bedroom at 2AM? Did it make you feel like you were somewhere else entirely—maybe even a place that doesn’t exist?
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
From Songs To Symphonies
Introduction This is a Seven Days In excavation from 31st January 2020 about how musicians expanded their musical pieces from three-minute songs to twenty-minute opuses and further. I will expand this piece as well because I know there are other pieces that are relevant.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 months ago in Beat
Rate-O-Rama #37: Wynken, Blynken and Nod
🥳🎉🎊Are you ready to have fun, let’s play Rate-O-Rama! 🥳🎉🎊 🚀🎸🎹🥁🎺🎼 If you’d like to receive a notification when the next Rate-O-Rama post is published, let me know in the comments.
By Rick Henry Christopher 6 months ago in Beat
☀️ Dreamy Summer Vibes Vol. 1 . AI-Generated.
When the air gets warmer and the days stretch a little longer, there’s an unspoken magic that settles over everything. It’s in the quiet stillness of early morning light, the soft hum of a fan in the background, or the way sunlight dances on your skin during a lazy walk home. Dreamy Summer Vibes Vol. 1, the latest compilation from The Yume Collective, captures that magic in musical form.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
Some Canterbury Tales
Introduction I recently joined a Facebook group, "The Canterbury Scene", and they are extremely engaging and have been very welcoming when I have posted there, so I thought I would make a playlist of some of my favourite songs by Canterbury-related artists. You can check the group out here:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 months ago in Beat
Being Top of the Heap
American singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen came out with his fifth album The River in 1980. The album was Springsteen's attempt to make a record that captured The E Street Band's live sound. The album is heartland rock and roll with a live garage-band sound that combines party songs with introspective ballads. The lyrics to the songs expand on themes that Springsteen took on in his previous albums Born to Run (1975) and Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978). The songs mainly focus on love, marriage, and family.
By Rasma Raisters7 months ago in Beat
English Celtic Punk Band
In 1982 The Pogues were founded in King's Cross, London. The band members were Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy, and Jem Finer. The band fused traditional Irish mushc with punk rock influences. Other member joined The Pogues among them James Fearnley and Cait O'Riordan. They began playing live shows in London pubs and clubs. The band opened for the English rock band The Clash on their 1984 tour.
By Rasma Raisters7 months ago in Beat