Episode 227: DJ KITTY GLITTER MIXSET #153 (80's Club Music Flashbacks)

Episode 227: DJ KITTY GLITTER MIXSET #153 (80's Club Music Flashbacks)

From DJ KITTY GLITTER by DJ Kitty Glitter

July 23, 2026 · 1h 4m · Episode 227

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DJ Kitty Glitter reflects on the influence of 80's club music and his journey into DJing.

As I approach my 55th birthday and feeling nostalgic, I’ve been reminiscing back to when I was first exposed to club music in the late 70’s & through the 80’s. Most of these songs were not played on Australian radio back then but lucky for me I had older family friends that were already going out clubbing in Sydney (I think the nightclub they would frequent was called Swensons), and they would always play music they were hearing on the dancefloor for me. It was them that introduced me to a record store called Disco City where we would buy imported remixes not available in mainstream record stores. These are just some of the songs that influenced me in a big way during that era. The opening track “Groove Me” by Fern Kinney took me to another dimension when I first heard it when I was 9 years old in 1980 and I became obsessed with dance music (or “Funk” as it was commonly called in those days). Being exposed to electronic music at that early age was inspiring for me and my obsession only grew stronger over the years that followed. When I was in my mid teens, a close family friend opened a small record store himself and he would get imported remixes fresh off the press and that…

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Organizations: Disco City

Books & works: Groove Me

Places: Sydney

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