Taking it back 40 years, I had great nostalgic fun putting together this showcase of 1985’s best dance-oriented music. This was a year where the soul and funk styles of the first half of the decade rubbed shoulders with some electro funk moments, plenty of pop-dance remixes of Top 40 chart hits, and when the very early days of house music began to make themselves apparent.
This is my third year of compiling such mixes. Here’s where to find the 1984 instalment:
