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- Date Released: January 14, 2008
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Label: Strut Records / !K7 Records
Rhythm-obsessed oddities from nearly every corner of the world. Just don't call it disco, OK?
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We Say...
What’s most intriguing about the obscurities and classics on this compilation of off-the-beaten-track, turn-of-the-‘80s dance music is their diversity. In an age when musical subcultures that were mere footnotes in their day are available at a flick of the mouse, the once-unfathomable New York punk-salsa of Konk and skronk-disco of James Chance, and Delta 5’s likeminded all-girl Leeds art-student punk-funk, might strike a few cranky collectors as over-exposed oldies by now; the Eight-Mile-as-Autobahn innovations of A Number of Names’ Detroit techno precursor “Sharevari” (heard here in its instrumental mix) might conceivably draw a shrug from jaded rave historians as well.
But every one of those tracks is an essential milestone even dabblers should hear, and this sampler’s less frequently heard highlights — Vivien Goldman’s bittersweet Brit-bohemian laundry love story, Sprockety German-Spanish and Belgian-Italo crossovers from Liaisons Dangereuses and Kazino, fusion/prog/electro experiments from Isotope and Material — map out an omnivorous, geographically spread-out scene whose pretensions never come off humorless. Add in plenty of naively rigid British rapping and a couple high-register kiddie voices dueting with low-register robots, and it’s no wonder the liner notes reveal that several of these rhythm-obsessed oddities became hits on actual non-new-wave dancefloors.
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Launderette
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3:47 |
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| 02. | |
Mind Your Own Business
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3:13 |
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| 03. | |
My Spine Is The Bassline
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4:01 |
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| 04. | |
Your Life
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7:25 |
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| 05. | |
Crunch Cake
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3:55 |
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| 06. | |
Contort Yourself (August Darnell Remix)
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6:15 |
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| 07. | |
Love Tempo (Remix)
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7:55 |
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| 08. | |
Kaddish
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4:47 |
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| 09. | |
Don't Lose Control (Dance)
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4:19 |
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| 10. | |
Binary
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3:56 |
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| 11. | |
Los Ninos Del Parque (12' Mix)
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5:03 |
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| 12. | |
Sharevari (Instrumental)
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6:17 |
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| 13. | |
In The Cornbelt (Larry Levan Mix)
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5:54 |
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| 14. | |
Silent Street / Silent Dub
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7:54 |
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14 Total Tracks, 74:41 Total Length
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