1984
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"Ooh, techno city, hope you enjoy your stay --"Techno City" (1984) by Cybotron "Science is politics by other means" "One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble." --"One Night in Bangkok" (1984) by Murray Head |
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1984 is the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
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Art and culture
- The term cyberspace is popularized
- first computer hackers
- launch of the Apple Macintosh
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
Literature
Fiction
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Non-fiction
- The Hot House by Andrea Branzi
- Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Frederic Jameson
- Ninety-nine Novels by Anthony Burgess
- Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions by John Michell
- The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
Film
- Body Double by Brian de Palma
- The Funeral by Juzo Itami
- Suburbia by Penelope Spheeris
- Les Ripoux by Claude Zidi
- Tightrope by Richard Tuggle
- The Razor's Edge by John Byrum
- Blood Simple by Coen Brothers
- Repo Man by Alex Cox
- The Company of Wolves by Neil Jordan
- Choose Me by Alan Rudolph
- Crimes of Passion by Ken Russell
- Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense by Jonathan Demme
- Top Secret! by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
- Beat Street by Stan Lathan
- The Brother from Another Planet by John Sayles
- The Terminator by James Cameron
- Special Effects by Larry Cohen
- Under the Volcano by John Huston
- Electric Dreams by Steven Barron
Music
Manuel Göttsching releases the fascinating proto-techno cut "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 Lose It Baby" and Tony Allen, Fela's drummer, who releases "Road Close".
Singles
- Nothing Is True by Carlos Peron
- 8:15 to Nowhere by Vicious Pink
- Chief Inspector by Wally Badarou
- Mambo by Wally Badarou
- Stop Bajon by Tullio De Piscopo
- All About Money by Spontaneous Overthrow
- Ravi Shankar Pt.1 by the Dub Syndicate
- Set it Off by Strafe (Walter Gibbons mix)
- E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching
- Don't Go Lose It Baby by Hugh Masekela
- I Scare Myself by Dan Hicks
- World Destruction by Time Zone
- Release Yourself Aleem feat. Leroy Burgess
- Techno City by Cybotron
- Land of Hunger by The Earons
- High Energy by Evelyn Thomas
- Five Minutes by Bonzo Goes to Washington
- Poo Poo La La by Roy Ayers
- Somebody Else's Guy by Jocelyn Brown
- Road Close by Tony Allen
- You Don't Know by Serious Intention
- L. A. Night by Yasuko Agawa
- Funk You Up by Jesse Saunders
- Mr. Groove by One Way
- She's Strange by Cameo
- I Choose You by Paris
- Dead Eyes Opened by Severed Heads
- Touch Me (All Night Long) by Fonda Rae
- Go! by Tones on Tail
Albums
- Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? by Art of Noise
- Bad Music for Bad People by The Cramps
- Tunes From the Missing Channel by Adrian Sherwood
- Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted by Carlos Peron
- Watering a Flower by Haruomi Hosono
Births
Deaths
- February 12 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
- Alexander Trocchi (1925 -1984)
- Andy Kaufman (1949 - 1984)
- Ada "Bricktop" Smith (1894 — 1984)
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