"Triangle of Love," Kreem (1986)

Early edition Belleville Three: Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May. Detroit techno produced Chicago House. Ja'nine Barker vocal is ghostly, gothic, even pitiful, overwhelmed by the galloping electro pump and a swirling, strobing chatter of hypnotizing beat accents. Echoes of New Order's "Blue Monday" morph into Kraftwerk Afrofuturism. TGIDF. 



"Blue Monday" (1983)

And--who knew?-- doing this to Blue Monday is a viral thing on TikTok right now or maybe yesterday, semi-recently anyway: 


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