Altromondo Studios: famous dance club in Rimini (Italy) where “The Creatures” were resident on stage and every weekend this was their show:

Their show was exactly as you see in the video, i was a snotty kid but i was there, every saturday

The spaceship in the footage was not built to shoot this videoclip, it was actually part of the disco scene: it suddenly came out from under the dancefloor and “The Creatures” show started.
Here is the final scene of a movie, showing how the spaceship came up from the floor

"The Creatures" disco-hit was "Believe in yourself"

All this is definitely 80's ...

 

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I wouldn't agree that they werent good at dance music, you are probably unaware of their earlier work such as :

Princess Say I'm Your Number One
Princess After The Love Has Gone
Princess I'll Keep On Loving You
Princess Tell Me Tomorrow
Princess In the Heat of a Passionate Moment
Haywoode Getting Closer
Haywoode You Better Not Fool Around
The Three Degrees The Heaven I Need
O'Chi Brown Whenever You Need Somebody

Yes its pop music but its well crafted and some of it up there with the US R&B charts at the time and easily better than any modern pop dance music. If you know anything about well crafted pop music then you have to admit that this meets the criteria. Also they had their own sound and were adding something unique to the 80s electronic music landscape.

 

1980 one more (pre-acidic?)

 

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Ooh that's where the robots of my Machine's Drama vinyl came from! Props are still there at disco club?
It must have been a wonderful show, envy you.

Back to thread, scratching from my memories bit by bit, really loved this one:

 

Funkytown- Lipps Inc (1980)

 

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Boytronic

Boytronic is a German music group that plays electropop.
It was founded in 1983 by Holger Wobker and Peter Sawatzki in Hamburg, Germany as Kapitän Sehnsucht (Captain Desire).

1983: You

1984: Diamonds and Loving Arms

1984: Man in a Uniform

1985: Hold On

1985: Late Night Satellite

1986: Hurts

1987: I Will Survive

1988: Tears

1988: Don’t Let Me Down

1988: Love for Sale

1988: Bryllyant / You (Remixe)

1989: Trigger Track

 

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Ultravox (earlier styled as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily. Between 1980 and 1986, they scored seven Top Ten albums and seventeen Top 40 singles in the UK, the most successful of which was their 1981 hit "Vienna".

Ultravox - Vienna (Full Album, 1980)

Ultravox - Rage in Eden (1981)

The Voice – 6:01

We Stand Alone – 5:39

Rage in Eden – 4:12

I Remember (Death in the Afternoon) – 4:57

The Thin Wall – 5:39

The Ascent – 2:20

 

Well, looking at the video now it looks quite cheesy, but I assure you that in the 80's it was a really dramatic and emotional show. Before covid, Altromondo Studios was still in business: I have no idea if they were still using the spaceship for these theatrical performances

 

Killing Joke - Love Like Blood (1985)

Funkytown- Lipps Inc (1980)

Swing Out Sister - Breakout (1987)

Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home (1985)

Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds (1985)

Animotion - Obsession (Extended Version) 1984

 

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Irene Cara - Flashdance - What a Feeling (1983)

Flashdance...What a Feeling" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance, written by Giorgio Moroder (music), Keith Forsey and Irene Cara (lyrics), and performed by Cara.The song is in the key of B♭ Major and has a tempo of 122 beats per minute.

Trans X - Living on Video (1983)

KLF - J.A.M s - Whitney Joins The J.A.M s (1987)

The KLF deep shit (short edit) (1989)

KLF - Disco 2000 - One Love Nation

The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords
and other names) are a British electronic band formed in London in 1987.

 

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I can't believe I forgot this little gem

 

Madness - Our House (1983)

A Number Of Names - Sharevari (1981)

A Number Of Names - Skitso (You're My Friend) (1982)

Blackway - New Life (1981)

Dharma - Plastic Doll. Original (1982)

Gino Soccio - Remember (Atlantic Records 1982)

 

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Prior to Miami Sound Machine's "Conga," these 2 songs Modern Romance with their infectious use of Latin style bass, percussion and bras, were certain to guarantee a stampede of patrons to the dance floor .

 

Death in June - The Calling (Mk II) - 1985

Trisomie 21 - The Last Song (1986)

 

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New releases from NU GROOVE Records did always catch my attention in these diggin' hours in the record stores back 'n tha days

1989 Mixed by Masters At Work Produced by Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez

1989 Mixed by Ronald Burrell, Tommy Musto

1989 Producer [Everythang] by Rheji Burrell

1989 Producer, Written-by Bobby Konders Programmed & Engineered by Tommy Musto

 

There is a [IMO, cause I'm not exactly a fan of top charts music] better version by Laibach that you can definitely dance to. Not exactly 80s though.

Speaking of dance music from the 80s, DAF "Der Mussolini" comes to mind. You gotta dance pretty fast to this one.

 

On the Soul Side of thangs

1988

1987

1988

 

Gazebo - I Like Chopin (1983)

Hypnosis - Pulstar (Italo Disco 1983)

Lee Marrow – Shanghai (1985)

Martinelli - Cinderella [Discoring] 1985

Raf - Self control (1984)

Raggio di Luna – Comanchero (1985)

Scotch - Disco Band (1984)

Spagna - Call Me (1987)

 

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Valerie Dore - The Night (1984)

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes (1981)

Ofra Haza - Im nin' alu (1988)

Mysterious Art - Das Omen, Teil 1 (ZDF 1989)

Taylor Dayne - Tell It to My Heart (1988)

 

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Since that version was not released in the 80's it is "off-topic." Nevertheless, thanks for pointing it out vro! I did not know it existed. As you also mentioned it, you certainly can dance to it.