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1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990

Art and culture

• Moviedrome premiered on BBC
• Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at the MoMA

Literature

• Dictionary of the Khazars
• The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders by Colin Wilson

Film

• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• Akira
• Tetsuo
• The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wes Craven
• The Milagro Beanfield War by Robert Redford
• A Fish Called Wanda by Charles Crichton, John Cleese
• Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears
• Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg
• Bagdad Cafe by Percy Adlon
• The Vanishing [Spoorloos]by George Sluizer
• Story of Women by Claude Chabrol
• Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway

Music

• Todd Terry
  • After an initial success with "Can You Party", Todd Terry secures a position in the 1988 charts with no less than four classics. The focus re-shifts to New York. [...]

• New Dance Sound from Detroit
  • Virgin 10 release a compilation of music by Detroit artists including Juan Atkins and Derrick May, called 'Techno: The New Dance Sound from Detroit'. Compiled by Neil Rushton, the release was the first real taste of Detroit techno taken to Europe. It is less successful than expected, however, manages to coin the term "techno".
• Balearic, Ibiza
  • In 1988, there was the 'Balearic' business, an eclectic style of DJing which at the time encompassed dance mixes of pop artists like Mandy Smith and quasi-industrial music like Nitzer Ebb's 'Join In The Chant' Championed by Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway, Paul Oakenfold and Johnny Walker who'd all been to Ibiza in the summer of 1987, Balearic was an integral part of the club scene at the time, but after the gushing media overkill it all became a little farcical as people attempted to make Balearic records. There was, of course no such thing. --Phil Cheeseman

Singles

• The Nightwriters - Let the Music Use You [1]
• A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
• Inner City - Good Life (Kevin Saunderson)
• Inner City - Big Fun (Kevin Saunderson)
• Adeva - Respect
• Kraze - The Party
• S-Express - Theme from S'Express
• Turntable Orchestra - You're Gonna Miss Me
• Pfortune - String Free
• Black Riot - A Day in the Life (Todd Terry)
• Hardhouse - Check This Out (Todd Terry)
• Samba De Flora - Airto Moreira
• Mr Fingers - Stars
• Jevetta Steele - Calling You
• Mayday - Freestyle
• Kevin Saunderson - The Groove That Won't Stop (1988)
• Royal House - Party People (Todd Terry)
• Royal House - Yeah Buddy
• Todd Terry Project - Weekend (rework of the 1978 classic)
• Raze - Break For Love
• Liz Torres - Can't Get Enough
• Adonis - No Way Back
• First Bass - It's Like That (Mark Kinchen with a killer bassline and old school drum rolls)
• Blake Baxter - When We Used To Play (Blake Baxter, the prince of techno)
• Ce Ce Rogers - Someday
• Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz (using Lonnie Liston Smith's Expansions bassline)
• Basement Boys - Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Jump Street records)
• Joe Church - I Can't Wait Too Long

Albums

• Techno! The New Dance Sound Of Detroit by various
• This is Electronic Body Music by various
• The Whitey Album by Ciccone Youth
• It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
• Straight Out the Jungle by Jungle Brothers
• Pixies - Surfer Rosa
• Big Black - Songs About Fucking
• James Brown Funky People vol 1
• Green - R.E.M.
• Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Births

Deaths

• Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988)
• Sylvester (1947 - 1988)
• Jean Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)
• Piero Fornasetti (1913 - 1988)