I’ve been searching for some old track’s that I heard in Playgroup’s PartyMix Volume One. A great compilation of about 200 old school snippets over the course of an hour. There are a few tracks that I completely forgot hearing when I was a wee youth, including I.O.U. by the british band Freeze. It’s part of that early 80’s heavy synth genre that led into a lot of electro of the late 80’s and into techno which split int all the forms we hear now. It’s some danceable fluff that has it’s moments, mostly for how unrefined a lot of that new sound was.

Then I found the video online. Basically all I can say is that it is amazing how before MTV and at the birth of it, most artists and directors had absolutely no clue how to translate music into a visual form. Nowadays we take it mostly for granted. One thing I noticed is that the video was shot in Paris. Nice to see the French music scene still keeping to the 80’s roots with it’s current fashions, altho I’m a little embarrassed just watching that video having grown up in that era and having flashbacks. The wonders of being too literal (check out the word Controls right over the controls of the beatbox in the vid) and mom jeans. Be afraid. Be very afraid.


Freeze – I.O.U.