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Manuel Gottsching releases the proto-techno masterpiece of ‘E2-E4’, another Paradise Garage classic. New York sees Walter Gibbons with a splendid mix of the ten minute "Set It Off". Jessie Saunders funks Chicago up and almost launches house music. while Juan Atkins releases Techno City with Cybotron in Detroit. Africa is never far away in the charts with both Hugh Masekela's "Don't Go Loose It Baby and Tony Allen, Fela's drummer with the Road Close EP. 1985 brought house.

On the literary front, William Gibson publishes Neuromancer, which puts the term cyberspace on the map.

1. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
2. Hugh Masekela - Don't Go Lose It Baby (Jive, 1984)
3. Strafe - Set It Off [Walter Gibbons mix]
4. Aleem - Release Yourself (feat. Leroy Burgess)
5. Aleem - Get Loose (feat. Leroy Burgess)
6. World Premiere - Share The Night
7. Madonna - In The Groove
8. Colonel Abrams - Music Is The Answer
9. John Rocca - I Want It To Be Real
10. Pushe - Don't Take Your Love Away
11. Laid Back - The White Horse
12. Liquid Liquid - Cavern
13. Jesse Saunders - Funk You Up (raw funk from Chicago)
14. Cybotron - Techno City (Juan Atkins)
15. Roy Ayers - Poo Poo La La
16. One Way - Mr. Groove
17. Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy
18. Tony Allen - Road Close (dub)
19. Cameo - She's Strange
20. Paris - I Choose You
21. Yasuko Agawa - L.A. Night
22. Earons - Land Of Hunger

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