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Tom Neville and Serge Santiago are the latest producers to have joined forces to become a 'super duo', and now go by the name of Retro/Grade. The sound they've created stands out like a sore thumb - contemporary yet retro at the same time. Picture NES computer games being muddled with Disco and Techno and you're on the right tracks. We're loving this sound - and a whole host of top guns are waxing lyrical about them too. We're only allowed give you this track, in fact we can't even stream either of the tracks they've actually released. [...]

• RETRO/GRADE - Pulsar (Herbie Hancock R... » Herbie Hancock Rockit Bootleg.mp3

This is part two in Salacious Sound’s The History of Electro , chronicling the rise of electro to pop status. Check back on Friday for the next installment, or go back to part one. The year was 1983. Grammy night. My mother let me stay up late to watch them because she knew how much I loved pop music and especially Michael Jackson. She was convinced, back then, that Michael was a pedophile because he brought Emanuel Lewis (The child star of TV's [...]