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VA - Cherry Pop Says Extended Stimulation [2025] (4 x CDs)
There’s something wonderfully indulgent about sitting down with Extended Stimulation – 12” Pop Adventures on the Dancefloor 1983-1988. On paper it’s a box of extended mixes and electro-pop moments pulled from the heart of the eighties’ dancefloor culture but listened to straight through it becomes more than a playlist, it feels like a club night that never quite ends.
What makes this set stand out isn’t just the familiar names, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, ABC, Duran Duran, it’s how those extended versions let the rhythms and synth lines breathe. These aren’t radio edits, they’re tracks given room to stretch, letting grooves settle in so you register their textures rather than just their hooks.
Sequencing plays a big role. Each disc flows between upbeat pop-leaning cuts and deeper electronic explorations, so the listening experience never feels static. There’s a sense of continuity: extended mixes segue into rarer versions and back again, and before long you’re noticing how each choice shapes the pace and mood.
Played as a whole, this isn’t just nostalgia. It highlights how pop and dance music were flirting, colliding, and remixing themselves in real time during those five years. You feel the decade’s pulse not as a series of singles on repeat, but as a living, evolving dancefloor conversation, one that still resonates long after the last track fades. (B)
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Track lists
CD1
01 Thompson Twins - You Take Me Up (High Plains Mixer) 8:29
02 Simply Red - Money's Too Tight [To Mention] (The Cutback Mix) 8:38
03 When in Rome - The Promise (The Ollie North Mix) 6:26
04 Scarlet Fantastic - No Memory (Deconstruction Mix) 6:04
05 Nitzer Ebb - Join in The Chant (Burn!) 5:24
06 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Success (Extended) 6:45
07 Princess - Say I'm Your Number One (Alternative Version) 9:11
08 London Boys - Requiem (Continental Remix) 8:47
09 Hazell Dean - E.S.P. [Extra Sensual Persuasion] (Extended Dance Mix) 10:33
10 Stock, Aitken & Waterman - Roadblock (Rare Groove Remix) 7:16
CD2
01 Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix) 6:48
02 Electronic - Getting Away With it (Extended Version) 7:31
03 New Order - The Kiss of Death 7:01
04 Freeez - I.O.U. (Megamix) 8:42
05 Secession - Fire Island (Extended Mix) [no fade] 7:44
06 Belouis Some - Imagination (Dub Mix) 7:08
07 Duran Duran - Notorious (Latin Rascals Mix) 6:22
08 Arcadia - The Promise (Extended Remix) 7:04
09 Talk Talk - It's My Life (12'' Remix) 6:17
10 Win - You've Got The Power (U.S. Dance Mix) 6:00
11 Simple Minds - Speed Your Love to Me (Extended Mix) 7:21
CD3
01 Fancy - Slice Me Nice (12'' Version) 5:28
02 Laid Back - White Horse (U.S. Edit) 5:45
03 Limahl - Never Ending Story (12'' Dance Mix) 5:19
04 Re-Flex - The Politics of Dancing (Extended Version) 6:35
05 Nik Kershaw - Nobody Knows (Phil Harding Promo Remix) 5:35
06 Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off (Dub) 6:59
07 Blue Mercedes - I Want to Be Your Property (Daktari Mix) 6:49
08 Brother Beyond - I Should Have Lied (Longer) 6:32
09 Boogie Box High - Jive Talkin' (12'' Version) 4:37
10 Marilyn - Calling Your Name (12'' Version) 6:53
11 Culture Club - I'll Tumble 4 Ya (Special Extended Version Remix) 4:39
12 Boy George - Everything I Own (Extended P.W. Botha Mix) 7:15
CD4
01 a-ha - The Sun Always Shines on T.V. (Extended Version) 8:27
02 Nick Kamen - Each Time You Break My Heart (Dub) 8:49
03 Wet Wet Wet - Wishing I Was Lucky (Metal Mix) 5:43
04 Vicious Pink - Cccan t You See (French Extended Mix) 7:17
05 Mandy Smith - I Just Can't Wait (12'' Mix) 6:57
06 The Human League - Love is All That Matters (Extended Remix) 7:46
07 ABC - The Night You Murdered Love (The Sheer-Chic Remix) 6:26
08 Act - Snobbery & Decay (That's Entertainment) 9:48
09 Propaganda - Das Testaments Des Mabuse 10:15
10 Glenn Gregory and Claudia Br cken - When Your Heart Runs Out of Time (6'20'' Mix) 6:36
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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.
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