Sweetest Summer Sophisti-Pop

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To celebrate my 600th cloudcast on Mixcloud and the beginning of summer, I made this sunny sophisti-pop mix. Enjoy!

Many popular sophisti-pop artists incorporated sweet pop-soul into their songs, which made them perfect material to play on pop as well on smooth jazz radio stations. Especially the typical eighties synthesizer sound made sophisti-pop a product of its time and by the beginning of the next decade, it had largely faded away, leaving us with quite a few really enjoyable tracks. Well-known names in this sub-genre are (apart from the ones that I selected) Black, Simply Red, Sade, The Style Council, Swing Out Sister, Prefab Sprout, and Everything but the Girl.

Tracklist:

Bodyline – Tender (2020)
Scritti Politti Feat. Miles Davis – Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) (1988)
DeBarge ‎– I Like It (1982)
Jerry Corbetta – Caribbean Lady (1978)
Nohelani Cypriano – Island Boy (1979)
Matt Bianco ‎– More Than I Can Bear (1984)
Priscilla – Juste Un Kiss (2014)
Viktor Lazlo ‎– Sweet, Soft N' Lazy (1986)
Elbow Bones & The Racketeers ‎– A Night In New York (1983)
World Radio – Love Me Not (2016)
Halo James ‎– Could Have Told You So (1989)
Alan Gorrie – That Kinda Girl (1985)
Hue & Cry – Looking For Linda (1989)
The Blow Monkeys ‎– It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (1986)
Curiosity Killed The Cat ‎– Ordinary Day (1987)
NxWorries – Scared Money (2016)
Johnny Hates Jazz ‎– Shattered Dreams (1987)
Momoko Kikuchi – Mystical Composer (1986)
Naked Eyes – Promises, Promises (1983)
Steve Marrs – How Was I To Know (1982)
ABC – S.O.S. (1983)