40 From 40: 1983

Before we start, to commemorate yesterday's International Women's Day we put together a special 40 From 40, forty female-led songs for each year from 1977 to 2016. Next up in our actual attempt to playlist and contextualise forty years of the devil's music is a year of notable advancement in myriad forms. The American underground raged, the forward thinkers got to work on synthesisers and sequencers, rap found its voices of street level anger and charismatic poetry as it edged inch b...

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