The Twelve Inch 187 : Pull Up To The Bumper (No Wave) : New Wave/No Wave/Electro - 1982

I’ve got not one, but two mixtapes for you this week.

Pull Up To The Bumper sits right at the crossroads of what was happening in the early eighties. To show that, I’ve made two companion mixtapes, each exploring one of those diverging turns.
🎛️ Take the No Wave off-ramp and Pull Up To The Bumper leads into a completely different set. Konk and the post-disco Rolling Stones anthem Emotional Rescue complete the opening trio. From there, it moves through late space disco and early electro (Gina X Performance, The Nightmares), some early Italo (Koto, The Venus Gang), and synth-pop brilliance from Hook, Shelley & Godwin. Blancmange’s Feel Me and Yazoo’s State Farm (a B-side that deserved A-side status) round things out, before The Members and Ministry close the tape with Boys Like Dub and Work For Love.

Enjoy the ride — wherever you take the off-ramp. 🎶