Love Like Blood. Florence, mid-80s.
by BOXEDGE
I was very young, just after the mid-1980s. Dressed in black, black lipstick, black eyeliner.
I sang and played synths in a darkwave band. I spent every night in clubs — Tenax, Queen, Manila — and like many others, I lived inside that electric and shadowy aura that wrapped around Florence in those years.
Those were sharp, beautiful years.
All it took was a four-on-the-floor kick and a distorted bassline to rewrite the world beneath the strobe lights.
And when Love Like Blood by Killing Joke started playing, time would stop.
We moved with half-closed eyes, through smoke, alcohol, and dark dreams — as if every step was a ritual.
Those sounds felt immortal to us.
And maybe, in some way, they truly were.
Recreating that song today, so many years later, with the tools I have now — computers, virtual instruments, samplers, a synthetic voice that didn’t even exist back then — felt strange.
At times, deeply moving.
As if the past had found a way to speak again. But with new words.
It wasn’t about nostalgia.
It was an encounter.
Between who I was… and who I am now.
Watch the official video of “Love Like Blood” Boxedge feat. Lunaria Payne
Listen to "Love Like Blood"
You can listen to it on streaming — on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major digital platforms.
But only those who own the original vinyl or CD have heard the silence hidden between the tracks.
That silence lives only in the original editions by Boxedge feat. Lunaria Payne.
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