RETRO FUTURIST? – IT’S 1980- 

NO IT’S SOMETIME LATER……THE BRIEF WAS TO PUT TOGETHER A MORE CONTEMPORARY PLAYLIST OF TUNES THAT HAVE A SIMILAR ‘FEEL’ TO THOSE HEADY TIMES?

IT’S INTERESTING COMPARING THE TWO, THE OLD WITH THE NEW. THE SIMILARITIES/INFLUENCES, BOTH MUSICALLY & LYRICALLY? HERE YOU MAY DETECT THE ODD NOD TO BANDS LIKE TG, VISAGE, THE CABS, DM, OMD, THE HUMAN LEAGUE, JAPAN, JOY DIVISION, OR THE CURE ….

BIG THANX TO ALL THOSE ORIGINAL CROC’S REGULARS THAT HELPED OUT WITH THESE NEW SELECTIONS…… CREATING THIS ‘CROC’S NOT CROC’S’

TRACKLISTING-

1 ADD N TO (X)-APHINE REPITITION

2 MISS KITTEN & THE HACKER-1982

3 LADYTRON-TRUE MATHEMATICS

4 WHISPERING SONS-ALONE

5 TROPIC OF CANCER-MORE ALONE

6 BLACK MARBLE-IRON LUNG

7 DETACHMENTS-THE FLOWERS THAT FELL

8 STEREOLAB-LES YPER-SOUND

9 LES GEORGES LENINGRAD-MISSING GARY

10 THE KVB-DOMINANCE/SUBMISSION

11 MARK BROOM-TRANSLUCID

12 VITALIC-LIGHTSPEED

13 SINK YA TEETH-SWEETNESS

14 PLANNINGTOROCK-BEULAH LOVES DANCING

15 LOVATARAXX-ANA VENUS

16 MENTHULL-FACE AU MUR

17 MOTOR (FEAT.MLG)-MAN MADE MACHINE

18 EMPATHY TEST-LAST NIGHT ON EARTH.

CROC’S 

(OR SHOULD THAT’VE BEEN CALLED AL’S?)  I READ SOMEWHERE RECENTLY THAT WHEN CROC’S WAS REBRANDED ‘THE PINK TOOTHBRUSH IN 1984, THE CROCODILES WERE RELOCATED TO COLCHESTER ZOO, WHERE THEY DISCOVERED THEY WERE ACTUALLY ALLIGATORS!!?…NO!

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CHECK OUT THE ORIGINAL- ‘THE CROC’S MIX’

& FOR SOMETHING SIMILAR- 

THE ‘ON/OFF’ OR ‘INCHXINCH’ MIXES, 

THE ‘MUTE’ & ‘HANSA’ PLAYLISTS, 

OR GUEST MIXES BY 

‘MR HARD’ & ’DARK NIGHT’