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I'd call it electro. But I'd also probably think it was new, since I wasn't listening to electronic stuff in the 80s and don't have a great deal of electro in my collection. Yeah, I'd just lump it in with electro for sure.
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It's a tricky one. Gut feel says electro, technically it could fit in Techno definition though.
Planet Rock ('82) is a definitive electro track of it's time, that sound was using samples from funk like Hip Hop has done. Over the next few years there was a thread of Electro of this type, gradually moving towards a sound without samples, made purely by electronic instruments.
By '88 we were seeing Oakenfold and crew coming back from Ibiza, throwing parties in swimming pools then onto Land Of Oz at Heaven etc. This was full on Acid House but for a while you would still hear Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax at midnight. Also look at the Soft Cell 12" stuff to see where electronic pop was. Depeche Mode had been using a lot of electronic effects and sampling too.
Then Techno developed really fast in hindsight (Energy Flash '90), also with electro-techno like LFO - Frequencies alongside.
The whole '88 thing was massive in the UK for anyone who lived it. The first time people were necking pills en masse and it seemed like time stood still for a while! By '90 it was dog on a rope/spiral tribe nomads and the whole country if not the world was raving.
Airhead
Techno or Electro? just for fun :)