However, with diffuse worldviews but for their own sake, the creative minds of so many young artists were set free. Today, I am looking reventially back to the cornucopia of music genres invented during these years: Punk, Electronic, Rap/ Hip-Hop and so many unscrupulous crossovers, also with Disco and Rock-Genres.

My pick for a representative recording from this era – and the inspiration for this set of Aural Sculptures – is “Dare!” by The Human League. Cool and strict in sound, amateurish in vocals and arrangements, the album is a dilettante but brilliant piece of art and an unerring divination of future music production. The tracks balance perfectly the nihilism, the ostentatious vanity and yet the cry for salvation that musicians and their audiences would share excessively over the next years. Moreover the album yielded five video productions for the new-born MTV, demonstrating the stunning progress in this aspect of music presentation, and – by the way – some fashion that many of us would rather repudiate today…

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