Musical Interest

my current main interest in music does not only predate my producer life by far; it predates most of my life!
i must have been 2 or 3 years old; at the beginning of the 80s. there was a show on TV i had not seen before and did not see again. it was about teenagers in a school; i assume it was a UK series. but what happened in the series was not important. when the ending credits appeared a new wave song played. of course at that age i didn't know this music was called new age. when the melody of that song played... it touched me so deep. it was a true unearthly experience. i felt like i was flying. i felt full of bliss. in other words, i had my very first true high. the high lasted for more than a day. i had no clue what that song was. i desperately tried to memorize the melody. but i failed at it and soon forget how the song sounded like. but that event stayed impaled in my mind.
i'm quite certain i heard the song again much later in my life, but i don't know it. it could have been something by new order or human league, or yazoo.
when i was a kid, punk was a big topic in the media, and i had two older brothers who were into all sorts of "alternative" music, so i always had a steady input of punk music even at a very early age (in a sense, i *grew up* on punk, but that's a different topic). i loved that music as a kid, and when i grew older i realized there to me was something special in the melodies of punk and new wave songs; but i didn't know what it was.
when i turned to hardcore techno and became a producer, i could not care less about these things anymore. the topic was now avantgarde and noise, and i was very skeptical of using any melodies at all.
when my first enthusiasm in hardcore waned, a friend gave me a CD that had a cheesy pop-punk cover of "everything counts" by depeche mode. they changed the melody a bit, and i noticed that it had this thing in melody again that i was curious about earlier in life. by now this thematic stuck with me.
i think somewhere in 2010, 2011 i *finally* realized what it was. the special thing, that gave me my first high.
of course i won't explain what it is, to not spoil the mystery. i know 100% how to use it and what it is. i made some half-hearted attempts to find it in music theory, but no success yet (i'm generally not interested in western music theory).
it's something that, at least in the way i'm interested in, is very common in punk, new wave, goth, reggae, 50s doo wop, indie pop, folk and chiptune.
it's not common in metal, 19th century classical, rap and lots of other music.
in electronic music, for example some tracks by somatic responses and miro have it.
so, i had this thing. i was at that time looking for something new, something else to add to my tracks so i discovered it at the right time.
but it was not easy to merge it with my style of music that started from so different roots.
only in the last years i have a feeling to have some success at using this "technique", but i'm still not fully happy with it. something for the future?