Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing [YouTube] (1982)

The S.O.S. Band’s “Just Be Good To Me” [YouTube] (1983)

Both built around the Roland TR-808.

Digression number one: Night Nurse [YouTube] (1982).

Digression number two: Cutty Ranks and the Sleng Teng riddim [YouTube] (1985)

Digression number three: Dawn Penn’s No No No [YouTube] (1992)

No No No is the original Queen Majesty rhythm out of Studio One (then for Steely & Clevie – which is the version with the “Wake The Town” sample)

See also: eighties groove