The crew over at Buffet Libre have been assembling this collection for quite some time now and they just announced it is finally complete. Sixty quality covers/remixes of your favorite (or obscure) 80s tracks all available for free in one nicely wrapped package. So what does that mean? Well it means that good ol’ hacks here has been listening all 60 tracks on repeat trying to pick out my favorites. I’ve tried to stick to some that aren’t littering hype… but no guarantees.
Dragonette takes the ZZ top sound and destroys it with an almost monotone slathering take on the rocking original. Something about this just screams sexy to me. And yes I’m a dude talking about girls singing about sharp dressed man and just referred to that as “sexy”.
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Dragonette - “Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top cover)”
LINKS: Dragonette | Previous Dragonette Coverage
Sidechains just kills this one. Total dance-floor ownage.
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Madonna - “Into The Groove (Sidechains Remix)”
LINKS: Sidechains
Trash Yourself grinds the hell outta this one. A little too long, but that’s what self edits are for.
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Trash Yourself - “Fuck tha Police (NWA Cover)”
LINKS: Trash Yourself
We <3 Lismore
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Lismore - “Wot (Captain Sensible Cover)”
LINKS: Lismore | More Lismore!
Another dance floor stormer, Mr Miyagi tears it up. They did an awesome klaxons remix back int he day, and also put out a really solid mix that had “lasers” in the title (so you know it had to be awesome)
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Men Without Hats - “Where Do The Boys Go (Mr Miyagi Maximation)”
LINKS: Mr Miyagi
Cryptonites with another really interesting take on things. I’m a fan.
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood - “Relax (Cryptonites Remix)”
LINKS: Cryptonites | Previous Cryptonites Remixes
Anoraak with the repeat performance. Smooth as a double stack Pisces.
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Anoraak - “Talking in Your Sleep (The Romantics Cover)”
LINKS: Anoraak | Previous Anoraak Remixes
Kinda proggy, kinda trancey, but overall totally solid.
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Human League - “The Things (Joe and Will Ask Remix)”
LINKS: Joe And Will Ask?
All the rest of the individual tracks can be download from buffetlibre.net (completely free) or as a bundled zip file from MEGA Upload. Its worth the download to just queue them all up one day and just absorb all the different takes on everything.
Much thanks to the Buffet Libre Crew! I’ll provide a full track list below the cut.
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