THIS IS NOT THE 80'S
a nu-wave electro compilation
ARTIST: VARIOUS
TITLE: THIS IS NOT THE 80'S
LABEL: INCredible
FORMAT: Double CD
CAT NO: 5079832
RELEASE: 10 JUNE 2002
Featuring 40 nu-wave electro classics from MISS KITTIN & THE HACKER / I-F /
SVEN VATH & ANTHONY ROTHER / ADULT. * / DOPPLEREFFEKT / JOLLY MUSIC /
RADIOACTIVE MAN / AUX 88 / STERIL / FPU / ELLEN ALLIEN / CARL FINLOW /
DEXTER / DETROIT GRAND PUBAHS / DAKAR & GRINSER / ALEXANDER ROBOTNIK** and
many more
"How many times can I scream," declared the man who for many is seen as the
key catalyst of the nu-wave electro sound, International Deejay Gigolo main
man, Hell, recently in i-D magazine. "This is not about the 80's."
Of course he's right. There's 60's pop chic, 70's acid cosmology and P-funk,
90's techno and breakbeat and fashion thievery from every decade since the
turn of the 20th century. The 80's have a part to play in the jigsaw just
like everything else only it's stamp is more obvious, its stench more
recognisable. It's odour still fresh in the formative years of the
perpetrators of now. You only have to hear Miss Kittin & The Hacker's
(French duo Caroline Herve and Michel Amato) cover of Eurythmics' 'Sweet
Dreams' to see where the early eighties boom of synthesized pop left its
mark. But this is not the same. The influences are different be it social,
political or musical. There's more at stake here than mere retro revision.
The past always has a part to play in the future so in many respects it has
turned full cycle. But this is many pasts and many futures and many
different interpretations.
The sound is spreading. It's in the clubs, on the radio and on the catwalk.
With a new wave of no-wave, a crash course in electroclash and a pinch of
perfect pop it could even be in the charts. A global web of unique
individuals is currently spreading, meshing sounds and uniting styles into
hybrid strands of the cross-pollinated sonic zeitgeist. They wear different
clothes, have different ideas and don't even speak the same language yet
there's undeniably a connection being made to some misty-eyed golden era
when fashion, music and individuality hailed a new style of expression. New
romanticism, electro-pop, Italo Disco and the once seemingly time-trapped
swirl of electro that all appeared to both flash and burn by the late
eighties self declared year zero of freaky dancing have been stealthily
re-building a creative revenge of the self since the mid 90's. And for many
the sounds never left the stereo.
Opening a new music chapter that in part echoes the subversive shockwave
detonated by Detroit techno, Drexciyan wave-jumpers and UR commandos in a
skeletal, man-machine continuation of Kraftwerk's cold-wired utopia. Part
pop romanticism that harks back to a golden era of individual expressionism
set against a backdrop of small town alienation (see Human League, Depeche
Mode, Soft Cell et al); part late 70's / early 80's Italo Disco robo-camp
(Mr. Flagio, Gina Soccio and Klein & MBO); part Miami and Chicago Booty
shake (2 Live Crew, Magic Mike, DJ International) and part straight up B Boy
headspin (Newcleus, Hashim & Fresh Five Crew), electro is in the broadest
sense the seemingly most appropriate term that gels the current wave of new
electronic ideas taking shape in the context of this compilation.
The rough edges of 90's bedroom programming have been polished into shiny
pop gems (DMX Krew, Tiga & Zyntherius, Dakar & Grinser, Fischerspooner) that
are now predicted to challenge the manufactured teen product's stranglehold
on the Top 40. Whilst some openly celebrate the banal and superficiality of
pop and embrace it as an artform in itself, others shun the spotlight and
work clandestinely in the shadows. From multi-media concepts such as COUM
Transmissions, the Fluxus movement and the Art Nouveau spawned at the turn
of the 20th century the image became a means of conveying the message.
Fischerspooner's camp tomfoolery may have nothing to do with underwater
Drexciyan, afro-mythology yet in the musical amphitheatre these two
seemingly disparate worlds collide. Electro is the key.
With so many individual ideas, images and sounds it could be dangerous to
pigeonhole a new movement, yet electro of all labels, appears to span the
broadest and most encompassing range. On this compilation you will hear this
range in it's broadest sense of the nu-wave: from techno, bass and pop to
robo-disco and other mutant forms. As I-f's Ferenc (the man who's 'Space
Invaders Are Smoking Grass' classic is often pin-pointed as spearheading the
world's interest in the new Disko/Electro sound succinctly concludes.
"There's a f**king new school coming up." This is not about the 80's. It's
about NOW.
*Please note: 'Nausea' by Adult. will appear on the finished CD.
**Alexander Robotnik - 'Problems D'Amour' although made in 1983 still
remains as fresh sounding as it did some twenty years ago. A seminal piece
of Italo-future vision it is one of the most influential electronic records
of the last two decades. We felt it needed to be included to help show the
diversity of the music and as a guage to how the scene has developed. Like
we said. To go forwards, sometimes you need to look back.
THIS IS NOT THE 80'S'
CD 1 TRACKLIST RUNNING ORDER
Running Time: 77.25 / 20 tracks
Artist Title
DMX Krew 17 Ways To Break My Heart
Kittin & The Hacker Sweet Dreams
John Starlight Holy
Memory Boy There Is No Electricity (Vox)
Kittin & Hacker You & Us
Beroshima Electronic Discussion
Debasser Fat Girls
Aux 88 Break It Down
Excel Destination
Keith Tucker Oscillator (Bonus Beats)
Anthony Rother Sex With The Machines
FPU Ocean Drive (Tiga's White Linen Mix)
The Hacker Fadin Away
Break 3000 Supermachinereise
The Other People Place Let Me Be Me
Jolly Music Radio Jolly (Adult Remix)
Golden Boy Rippin Kittin (Egoexpress mix)
Crossover Phostographt
Dakar & Grinser Stay With Me
DJ Godfather Light Speed
'THIS IS NOT THE 80'S'
CD 2 TRACKLIST RUNNING ORDER
Running Time: 77.26 / 20 tracks
Artist Title
Dopplereffekt Porno Actress
Little Computer People Little Computer People
Sven Vath & Anthony Rother Ghost Pt. 1
Dexter Intruder
Kit Builders Bad Girl
Exzakt Transfusion
Sieg Uber Die Sonne Washingtons
GD Luxxe New Definitions (Patrick Pulsinger remix)
Alden Tyrell Love Explosion
Alexander Robotnik Problems D' Amore
I - f Space Invaders Smoking Grass
Ellen Alien Send
Lolita Strap Video Screen
Detroit Grand Pubhas After School Special
Steril Amor Electronique
Transllusion Dimensional Glide
Radioactive Man Do The Radioactive
Carl Finlow Dangerous Devotion
Sensorama New Aged
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