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Do You Have The Force? Volume 2 - Jon Savage's Alternate History Of Electronica 1978-82

    Jon Savage's second eclectic voyage through Post-Punk era Electronic music, Disco, Experimental & Proto-Techno 1978-82.

    Re-mastered with care & attention from the very best available audio sources for maximum listening pleasure..

    This compilation is selected and curated by renowned cultural commentator, writer and film-maker Jon Savage. Amongst many highly revered projects Jon has produced the definitive work on Punk Rock in “England's Dreaming” and the documentary & book “Teenage” The Creation of Youth, 1875 - 1945. He is also the biographer of Joy Division & author of the top 10 Sunday Times best seller "This Searing Light, The Sun & Everything Else" The Oral History Of Joy Division in 2019. His new book The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955-1979) is published in in 2024.

    TRACK LISTING

    A1 Dee D. Jackson-Automatic Lover 4:07
    A2 Telex - Moscow Diskow (Original 12" Version) - 5"20
    A3 Soft Machine - Soft Space 8"56
    B1 Qondile-African Dawn 2"54
    B2 Gaz Nevada - I.C. Love Affair 6"30 (Original 12" Mix Version)
    B3 I Signori Della Galassia - Archeopterix 4"00
    B4 Cerrone - La Secte De Marrakech Suite 4"33
    C1 John Foxx-Burning Car 3”15
    C2 Thomas Leer & Robert Rental – Monochrome Days 4”01
    C3 Cabaret Voltaire-Red Mask 6”54
    C4 Caution – UFO 5"30 (Original 12" Mix Version)
    D1 Martin Rev - Nineteen 86 4"36
    D2 Pascal Comelade - Sequence 1 2"55
    D3 The Flying Lizards - An Age 2"31
    D4 Throbbing Gristle - Beachy Head 3"39
    D5 Terminal City -Mugin For Unknown 5”40

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    Jon Savage’s 1983-1985: Welcome To Techno City

      Continuing his long-running and highly respected series for Ace, spanning year by year since the germination of his 1966 volume for both Ace and Faber Books, Jon Savage serves us up another of his spectacular insights into popular culture, this time for the years 1983 to 1985.

      Born out of the ashes of post-punk, there were plenty of experimental singles during the early part of this period: Siouxsie’s ‘Swimming Horses’, Shriekback’s ‘Lined Up’, Soft Cell’s ‘Heat’, Echo & The Bunnymen’s ‘Gods Will Be Gods’, and the Smiths’ ‘Girl Afraid’ – a perfect kitchen sink scenario. Pete Shelley and Scritti Politti went the electronic route to great effect, while the Special AKA delivered the perfect riposte to ‘Hard Times’ and having fun on the dole with the under-appreciated ‘Bright Lights’.

      But by the end of 1984, the true action throughout this period was to be found in electronic, black American and club music: whether the metal beat of Section 25’s ‘Looking From A Hilltop’, Trans-X’s daffy hi-NRG Eurobelter ‘Living On Video’, Shalamar’s pure electro ‘Disappearing Act’, or the new music coming out of Sugarhill and Tommy Boy – Grandmaster Flash, Double Dee and Steinski, and the sampled Malcolm X.

      This compilation begins in the mainstream and ends in the underground. It was the classic high 80s, before the full downside of the New Right political project was revealed – although the signs were all there – but the pop fizz cloaked a nostalgia that masked the beginnings of social and subcultural breakdown. The tribes were at war, wearing clothes from pop’s past, a dizzying phenomenon that looted the 50s and 60s in a costume drama of confrontation and dislocation.

      As ever, Jon reports from the thick of the action and provides both front line reportage and academic insight. Play loud and enjoy the trip.


      TRACK LISTING

      CD One
      1. All Tomorrow's Parties - Japan
      2. Soweto - Malcolm McLaren With The Mclarenettes
      3. Lined Up - Shriekback
      4. Telephone Operator - Pete Shelley
      5. Gods Will Be Gods - Echo & The Bunnymen
      6. Heat (12-Inch Version) - Soft Cell
      7. (Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew – The Rock Steady Crew
      8. Disappearing Act (12-Inch Version) - Shalamar
      9. Bright Lights - The Special Aka
      10. White Lines (Don't Do It) (12-Inch Version) – Grandmaster & Melle Mel
      11. Techno City (12-Inch Vocal Version) - Cybotron
      12. Swimming Horses - Siouxsie & The Banshees
      13. Heartbeat (12-Inch Version) - The Psychedelic Furs
      14. No Sell Out (12-Inch Version) – Malcolm X (Keith Leblanc)
      15. What Presence?! - Orange Juice
      16. Girl Afraid (12-Inch Version) - The Smiths

      CD Two:
      1. Why? (12-Inch Version) - Bronski Beat
      2. Love Resurrection (12-Inch Version) - Alison Moyet
      3. Looking From A Hilltop (12-Inch Version) – Section 25
      4. Think Fast (12-Inch Version) - Pamela Joy
      5. Hypnotize (Version) (12-Inch Version) - Scritti Politti
      6. Close (To The Edit) (12-Inch Version) - The Art Of Noise
      7. Life's A Scream (12-Inch Version) - A Certain Ratio
      8. Never Understand - The Jesus & Mary Chain
      9. Sunspots - Julian Cope
      10. Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals
      11. In The Night - Pet Shop Boys
      12. Single Life - Cameo
      13. I Want You (12-Inch Version) - Cabaret Voltaire
      14. Crazy – R.E.M. 

      Various Artists

      Jon Savage's Ambient 90s

        Following on from 2012’s acclaimed “Fame” Post-Punk , 2015's "Perfect Motion" Psychedelic-Baggy 1988-93 compilations & 2020’s “Do You have The Force ?” Electronic 1978-82, all critically acclaimed. Jon Savage decided to focus upon Electronic music from the 1990s & has compiled an album that trips through a futuristic & musically fertile era highlighting both lesser-known gems & genre-defining cuts ..

        ” This music is a new way of looking at the world, a new language” (Jon Savage -Jockey Slut Magazine 1992 )

        This compilation is selected and curated by renowned cultural commentator, writer and film-maker Jon Savage. Amongst many highly revered projects Jon has produced the definitive work on Punk Rock in “England's Dreaming” and the documentary & book “Teenage” The Creation of Youth, 1875 - 1945. He is also the biographer of Joy Division & author of the top 10 Sunday Times best seller "This Searing Light, The Sun & Everything Else" The Oral History Of Joy Division in 2019.

        TRACK LISTING

        Sandoz (richard H Kirk) - Limbo 8:48
        Lobe - Placebo 7:02
        2 Cabbages On A Drip - Calm 6:34
        React 2 Rhythm - Intoxication (clubfield Mix) 6:10
        Strange Cargo - Montauk Point 7:12
        Rapoon - Bol Baya 9:07
        Aphex Twin - Utopia 3 - 7:19
        Gol - No Bounds 5:06
        Moonwater - Space Indian 6:55
        Underworld - Blueski 2:56
        U-ziq - Phiesope 6:04
        Biosphere - En-trance 4:41


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