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Music Used In Short Tesco Tv Ad - Electro-Pop Instrumental

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AndiFlatland | 14:07 Fri 27th Dec 2013 | Adverts
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I've a feeling I should know what this music is, but for the life of me, I can't uncover it!
Tesco have for several months been running a series of brief adverts - about 10-15 seconds - of a generic, non-moving screen with the product they're promoting, with a short piece of music accompanying it. The one I'm trying to identify is an electro-pop instrumental break which sounds like it's a non-vocal section of an old 80s electro-pop single which, even with my extensive knowledge of music, I simply cannot bring to mind. It's driving me ...kin' mad!!
The promo blurb for this ad, which I saw again a couple of days ago, ran something like '5p off per litre if you spend £50 or more' (as I wasn't particularly paying attention, the 'per litre' could have been referring to alcohol or petrol).
Anybody know what it is? Please help save my sanity!! Thanks.
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I vaguely remember hearing a Yazoo (or Depeche Mode) track on an ad recently. Could it be that?
I'm not sure but is it Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode?
You might be able to find it on here.

http://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/tag/tesco/
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factor-fiction: It's probably in that area, but not being too familiar with their general catalogue, it could take a while!
OILhead: No - it's a harder-edged piece than that.
tiggerblue10: Tried that site before - there is a similar ad shown, which has music by Newton Faulkner, but it's not that one, and the one I'm looking for isn't on there.
I've just seen the Tesco ad for fuel, and it used the Knight Rider theme as it's base

That'll be the one. I've heard that a few times
Yep, I've heard that too.
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Ahhh great, thanks Stephen_G! It's not quite the answer I was expecting, as I was imagining it as a clip from an old hit single. This explains why I couldn't actually identify it: I never watched Knight Rider, so the theme tune wasn't known to me. I actually heard it again on Friday night, during the ad break at 23:49 on More4 in the film Watchmen, and came here to post this information so that anyone so minded (and with time to spare - you can't scroll through the adverts, you just have to sit them out!) could go to Channel 4's 4oD service and hear it for themselves. But now I don't need to do that... though I just have...
One thing has struck me on listening to it again on your YT video link: I now realise that it sounds less like the bands I expected, and more like a cross between Gary Numan and Hot Chip. Niiice!! ATB for '14.
Thank you for very much; it's been driving me mad too! If you wanted a footnote, Busta Rhymes samples this in "Turn It Up/Fire It Up".

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