The 1980s have been closed down for 25 years now, but still are an inspiration for indie artists, producers and remixers. Let's celebrate the impact of this beloved decade with a trilogy!

This is Part 2: a Top 100 of 80s indie cover songs! The list includes reinterpretations by indie artists, so good that they cover up that the songs are over 25 years old.

Here is Part 1: 80s Indie Remixes: soundcloud.com/thisisamixtape/sets/top-100-80s-indie-mix-ups
Here is Part 3: 80s Inspired Indie: https://soundcloud.com/indiepopups/sets/top-100-indie-neon-light-ups

Compiled with love for the 1980s. Please like and repost this list or the individual sounds, and support the artists!! Thank you.

Top 100 80s Indie Cover-Ups

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CULTURE CLUB / revisited

culture  club 80s

New Wave

☆COVERS☆

grooovescooter da dAdA

An electronic cover of "Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks". Featuring my friend Lemon. on vocals. I loved the original song when I first heard it, and always wanted to jam my own version. We hope everyone enjoys!

Support Peter Bjorn and John: https://www.facebook.com/peterbjornandjohn
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Thanks, have a great day.



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Wolf Saga ft Lemon. - Young Folks (Cover)

Matthew Dear (feat. Tegan And Sara) - Pale Shelter

Song by Kelly Sweet. Written by Phil Collins. Purchase on iTunes at http://smarturl.it/KSITAT

Currently heard in the promos for the new NBC TV show "Believe". 

For more information about Kelly Sweet, visit www.kelly-sweet.com

In The Air Tonight

James Vincent McMorrow's cover of 'West Coast' by Lana Del Rey for Triple J's "Like a version" 

For promotional purposes only. I do not hold any rights to this song. 

James Vincent McMorrow - West Coast (Lana Del Rey cover)

PSYCHO KILLER - TALKING HEADS

Tears For Fears -  Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Culture Club - It's A Miracle (Ronando's Extended Dance Mix)

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03/02 - The Haunt, Brighton
05/02 - King Tuts, Glasgow
06/02 - Deaf Institute, Manchester
07/02 - Fleece, Bristol
09/02 - Islington Assembly Hall, London

We are all massive fans of these guys; they make such exciting choices in their music and we thought this particular track, with the Miley sample, would sound really interesting interpreted by a female voice. Blythe laid down a vocal which seemed to work first take - everything followed that :) we just hope they like it!

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Hunger Of The Pine (alt-J Cover)

CHROMATICS / CEREMONY

Turbo 50
Tiga & Zyntherius
Sunglasses at Night Remixes

In Tiga’s Words:

Luck is everything, and it only takes an instant for your life to become your dreams. The fact that my life was changed, altered, and ultimately bettered by covering an MOR Canadian rockers 80's pop tune is a quirk of destiny that gives me faith in the magical comedy that we call existence. This is the short story of how the shit went down.

It was the winter of my discontent. I was supposed to travel to India with my family for Christmas 2000, but was unable to go for personal reasons. Upset but determined to make the most of the situation I invited Jori Hulkkonen to DJ with me at my club (SONA) for a NYE party. Jori had done a
mixCD for Turbo and we had cultivated a fine friendship based on ridicule, shared 80's obsessions and ridicule. I had a small home studio that was gathering dust and producing nothing more than frustration; and I threw out the idea (I think I did, although maybe he did) of "making some tracks". I didn't know what I was talking about.  My own creative career had followed a typical early 90's trajectory: houseclubs-ectasy-techno-rave-DJ-travel-raver-promoter-radio-recordstore-nightclub impresario etc... all successful ventures that, at the turn of the
millennium, had led me to a position of relative affluence and respect. But the elusive jewel in the crown was production; and this block  was slowly destroying me. Then came the J-fool.

My memory is bad. In school it was perfect, but it's been eroded by a potent cocktail of reefer, airports, timezones, sleeplessness, computers and time. Now, my memory is not to be trusted. I'll try my best: i think the show went ok. Jori probably played a few records I loved, and a lot that iI hated. It was very cold. New Years Day came, I think he was sleeping at my place. I had an MPC, a Nord Modular. an 808 and a JUNO, and a puppy named Uma. Recently, at a small record store in Calgary of all places, I had bought a copy of 'Sweet Dreams' by Miss Kittin & The Hacker. I thought it was incredible. It's hard to imagine now, but at the time the idea of covering a pop song in a techno style seemed interesting. This is before the world went crazy and eclectic. So we decided to try a cover.

I don't remember details of the day. I had no intention of "singing" but I couldn't really do anything else, so that became my job. I also had to walk Uma, make tea, take phone calls, make jokes. Jori did most of the work. We tried a criminally poor cover of "When Doves Cry" which thankfully is lost
to all mankind. We did a version of "Small Town Boy" with falsetto singing so bad that if you could distill the sound into a liquid it would be the pure essense of "embarrassing". We did a midi-file based cover of New Years Day, which I still love, that came out on an old Turbo comp. And then (I think it was last) we did Sunglasses At Night. Corey Hart was a Montrealer, it seemed fitting. Our lack of sample memory in the MPC combined with my hesitancy to sing complex notes (or ANY notes for that matter) is what resulted in the "genius" of eliminating the bridge and pre-chorus. I remember Jori thought it was amazing. I didn't really like it. Score one for Zyntherius.

I remember going to my record store , DNA, which was just on the corner and playing it: the first of hundreds of "listen to my new track" sessions..... my first taste of the cold sweat of public testing, and the sheer horror of hearing MY voice on speakers. I hated it.

A few months before that day in studio i had done a mixCD called Mixed Emotions, which is still one of the best things I have ever done: it featured an "electro-funk" cd and my face on the cover. Both attracted the attention of DJ Hell in Munich, who of course at the time was a hero of mine. I had a contact thru licensing a song from them, so I think I sent him the sunglasses demo. He fell in love as well. I still didn't like it.

The rest of the story is like a montage in a movie, albeit a small film, Hell came to montreal, burned dubplates, played 6 times at Love Parade,  SAN got huge in germany, , ended up selling a quarter million, doing TOTP,  and being one of the big "electro" anthems of the period. I got to ride my own
coatails  all the way to where i am now. All my dreams came true, including the one about being voted #41 on the DJ top 100 list.

I still marvel at how easily it could’ve NOT happened: My dog stepping on the power switch a little earlier, or Jori getting tired, or the phone ringing at the wrong time. And I cant help but wonder how different my life would have been. While I was never a huge fan of the record I will say that
it was a very pure creative effort, in its own way a real punk track: two friends making something without any label or plans or scene......and crucially without any expectations. To spend 90 minutes on that, in a vacuum, and to then feel your entire life altered by the results.... that
is the magic of pop culture, and testimony to the awesome transformative power of ....... the Roland Juno-60.

Love from Montreal, and love to Jori Z and a special shout out to Hell and Josef.

In Zyntherius’ words:

When I was a child I dreamt about being a god.
When I grew up I realized I could become one.
In 2000 I noticed that the post for the god of synthesizers was not taken. I didn't even have to apply for the job. No real god would have to do that. I just declared myself as ZYNTHERIUS - the god of synthesizers.
Nowadays I'm feeling much better, but occasionally I still get the urge.
Which is why you should be aware of the wrath of Z and respect the holy Oscillators.


Sunclasses at Night Remixes

Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night (Original 12  Version)

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Music / mix: Kamp!
Mastered by Bartek Szczesny http://soundcloud.com/b-szczesny

Label: Kayax
Release date: 30.05.2012

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Brodka - Dancing shoes (Kamp! remix)

Cover version of Blondie's One Way Or Another

One Way Or Another - Blondie

James Bond Goes Under Cover: Paul McCartney & Wings' iconic 007 theme Live & Let Die gets the DUB treatment for Groovescooter's Re-fashioned Compilation Series (Vol 3) by Aussie agents Junglehammer and Daktari with a special extended toast from MC Paul Snatch. Available on CD (plus original mix version) or from Bandcamp or Junodownload in hi-quality WAV format.

Live And Let Dub (007 James Bond Theme/Wings cover) JUNGLEHAMMER x DAKTARI9 - Groovescooter Records

Boy George and Culture Club's 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me' gets Re-fashioned by Snorkel with jazz vocalist Virna Sanzoni. Commissioned by Groovescooter for our  'Re-fashioned 2: British Airwaves' compile. Available on CD or high-quality download from Bandcamp (https://tinyurl.com/CultureDubGroovescooter) or Junodownload.

Snorkel - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? (Culture Club cover) Groovescooter

Boy George - Everything I own (1987)

Wicked Game (Chris Isaak cover)

Blackbird Blackbird's Cover of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill

Feat. vocals by Niia

Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush Cover)

Commissioned by Groovescooter for the 2nd volume in our JJJ Album Of The Week series, 'Re-fashioned', this stunning cover of David Sylvian and Japan's early 80's classic 'Ghosts' features Gotye on vocals & music programming/production by Yum Cha Sessions. It was recorded at Creative Vibes, York St studios behind the QVB building in Sydney.  Now finally available digitally in high qual wav or mp3 from Bandcamp: https://groovescooter.bandcamp.com/track/ghosts

Produced by J. Bourne and Biseaux (Yum Cha Sessions)
Vocals: Gotye / Wally De Backer (credited as WDB)
Mastered by Kathy Naunton @ dB Mastering, Sydney
Commissioned /A&Rd by: Georgie Zuzak & Paris Pompor
Released: 2004, exclusively for Groovescooter's 'Re-fashioned British Airwaves' album.

Ghosts GOTYE + YUM CHA SESSIONS - Groovescooter Records (Japan/David Sylvian cover)

Official Ledge Remix of Culture Club Anthem

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (Ledge Remix) - Official

Can’t help falling in love - Fleet Foxes

Sweet Drop Human Nature (Tom York 2.0 Remix)

An exclusive courtesy of http://www.mixmag.net

http://www.mixmag.net/music/mp3-blog/stream-boy-george-psychemagik-remix

More exclusive music

Premiere: Boy George and The Dharma Protocol - Coming Home (Psychemagik remix)

Get Destructo's new "Higher EP" on Beatport here: http://btprt.dj/120cOIb and listen to more from Destructo here: http://soundcloud.com/destructohard


Soothe My Soul (Destructo Remix)

Download remix: http://ow.ly/mjd4c
Download whole "Melancholia remixed" EP, including Moullinex and Shindu remixes: http://ow.ly/mjd4c

Rebeka on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rebekaduo
Rebeka on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rebeka/155331524520003

FREE DOWNLOAD

Rebeka - Melancholia (Kamp! remix)

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