Rumour has it that ABBA heard that Computer Music were doing an 80s Special so just thought ‘sod it, let’s get back together for one last hurrah’. Yes the 80s are back but not just with the return of the mighty Swedes. The charts have been littered with 80s sounds ever since, well, the 80s, but never more so than the last few years.
The Weeknd and Dua Lipa are the obvious pop examples – and the ones we focus on in our massive retro cover feature in this issue on p18 – but the production tricks, techniques and tropes used four decades ago are littered across many genres.