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The Bridge - Industrial Love Dance [SV 12003 UK 1984 24-Bit FLAC]

If there is one single with the highest number of re-post requests in all my ten+ years of blogging, then it is Industrial Love Dance by Middlesex indie-pop band The Bridge. Take a Fairlight CMI synth, an Oberheim DMX drum machine, an Emulator, a highly strung bass, and (wait for it) a Melodica, then add a few melancholy vocals ....and what do you get? It's a New Order single. Except that it is not New Order, but they had some people fooled, even Discogs credits Peter Hook with the bass. The Bridge were something to do with Zerra One, but this single (in three mixes) was miles better than anything Zerra One could ever muster.

The remainder of the bands recordings fit between early The Beloved and Prefab Sprout (is there such a place?) and I will feature some of their other recordings when I return from a break with blogging in about ten days. So, feel free to talk among yourselves, or dig through all my blog posts for something you may not have heard before and put some tunes on. Laters.....

A1 Industrial Love Dance (Love Mix)

B1 Industrial Love Dance (Industrial Mix)

B2 Industrial Love Dance (7" Love Mix)