We’re up to 1988 on the TOTP re-runs. As ever you’re reminded that the biggest music of the era wasn’t Rave, Indie or Hip Hop it was Bros, T’Pau, and dreadful songs from Coke Adverts. However, we are starting to get underground club dance records getting into the charts, made in back bedrooms and designed for hardcore Rave action suddenly becoming freak novelty hits. Of course, TOTP wants to dutifully represent the music that’s in the Hit Parade, and the producers of dance records can’t resist the chance to tell their Mums they’re on TOTP so they’ve got to try and translate sequenced music into a TOTP performance. Most of these are pretty toe-curlingly awful, KLF and The Orb excluded. Here’s a very early Orbital, before they’d hit upon the light-up glasses and nailed a way to perform live basically showing off their synths and occasionally turning a knob – with a pal throwing some shapes in a futuristic jacket…