Hardly any other compilation series with Maxi-Singles is so innovative and in every way put together with love as the "so80s" series of Piet Blank and Jones Jaspa. Now this series is entering its eighth year now. And this time has become something different. For the first time in the 3 CD box not mix CD on which a megamix of many Maxi versions of titles of the other two recordings are. This time, all three CDs packed with grandiose Maxi versions and Blank & Jones have this time excavated more beads than has been the case already with the previous publications of the series. "So80s 8" is brimming with fewer than 34 Maxis and every title makes the heart of the 80s music fans beat faster. In addition, the musical spectrum, from which the title has been selected, become considerably wider. This change also brings new life into the series. And before you know it, it goes straight up with enjoying the 80 Extended rarities because with the "I Want Your Sex (Mongamy Mix)" by George Michael will usher in the longest version of all three CDs this new "so80s" output impressively erotic and tense one. But what comes after all, is simply madness and often never before appeared on CD or at the time in such a short run, that today no longer gets this. So one must at the eighth edition of "so80s" on rare versions of Ultravox, Level 42, Katharina and the Waves, Tiffany, Nick Kamen, Bananarama, Bronski Beat, The Cure, Bryan Ferry, Michael Cretu, Wet Wet Wet or Steve Winwood pleased. All tracks come according to the official information the release of the then original master tapes. And if the "so80s 8" listen, then one can only emphasize that the quality is simply fascinating genial. The atmosphere of that time have Blank & Jones wonderfully preserved and brought the title still in brilliant quality and re-mastered on the present CD. The booklet for publication comprises 40 pages and forms, after a little preface, all cover the former Maxi-Singles. And after the Digipaks are torn because of the thickness of the booklet insertion slot frequently in previous issues, the booklet this time is loose inside the digipak. Unusual but achieved with respect to the problem discussed very skilled. "So80s 8" is implemented from the first until the last second awesome, timeless and with so much love that one gets goosebumps when listening. 34 times memories of such a special and memorable epoch, more than any other was musically innovative and special. In the 80s just feels everyone at home - even in 2013! And one thing is certain: Blank & Jones determined work again at full speed on the ninth part, because nothing is so fascinating as this musical timelessness.
