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Three records that pass for pop singles until you notice that nothing inside them behaves like one. A sampled interview, a vocal that will not resolve, and a techno record with a tune it never apologised for.

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  1. Inner City / Good Life

    1988 · KMS / Virgin

    Detroit techno behaving like a pop record and refusing to apologise for it. The genre spent the following decade deciding whether that was a betrayal or the entire point.

  2. Massive Attack / Unfinished Sympathy

    1991 · Wild Bunch / Circa

    Strings, a slow breakbeat, and a vocal that refuses to resolve. It sounds like a pop single until you notice that nothing in it behaves the way a pop single is supposed to.

  3. The Orb / Little Fluffy Clouds

    1990 · Big Life

    A sampled interview, a Steve Reich loop and a beat, assembled into something that should not work at all. The line between a remix and a record is nowhere to be found on it.