0017 - A Produce

A Produce is the name under which southern Californian trance pioneer Barry Craig, er, produced his music. Active for nearly 30 years since the early 80s, he was fairly prolific, releasing nine albums, an EP and a couple of compilations between 1988 and 2011.

Naturally, given this substantial back-catalogue, I have exactly one A Produce track.

0015 - A Flock Of Seagulls

Mention A Flock Of Seagulls to anyone old enough to remember the 80s (and a lot of people who aren't) and they'll think of hair.  Frontman Mike Score's ridiculous barnet is perhaps the most mocked, parodied and generally laughed at hairstyle of all time, although, in fairness, at least it means we remember him and his band.

0014 - 8088

I was commenting recently on the lack of information online about 3D Picnic. Relative to 8088 though, the interwebs hold a veritable 30-volume encyclopaedia of 3D Picnic knowledge. The only certain info I can find are the listening stats on Last.fm for the one 8088 song I have, which are, I think (and this is part of the problem), credited to a different, more recent, 8088 (I think, in fact, that there might be three 8088s - this one from the mid-80s, another from the late 90s and yet another from the early 2010s, as well as a DJ 8088).

0004 - 17 Pygmies

More post-punk from LA, but a pretty stark contrast from the last lot - where 100 Flowers were fairly straightforward punk, 17 Pygmies are much more of a mixed bag.