STYLE...... Synthpop, New Wave, Electro, Post-Punk LABEL...... Edsel Records
QUALITY..... 320kbps / FLAC COUNTRY.... UK
Without necessarily knowing it, The Blitz was birthing the next wave of British pop stars. A young Boy George ran the cloakroom, its host and doorman was a young Steve Strange, soon-to-be the frontman of Visage, Spandau Ballet played their first gig there and on a given night you might find yourself dancing next to a member of Ultravox. Compiled exhaustively from his DJ sets, Rusty Egan Presents The Blitz brings together the sounds of a night at the club circa 1980 on either 66 track 4CD or 36 track 4LP sets. Beautifully presented with contemporary photography from Sheila Rock, Peter Ashworth and Terry Smith, the booklets also contain sleeve notes from Alexis Petridis and Rusty himself. And the club had a mighty soundtrack, assembled painstakingly by its resident DJ Rusty Egan. Rusty’s sets brought together heroes like Eno, Iggy, and Lou Reed cool European electronic pioneers like Kraftwerk, Telex and Yello, the electronic side of disco (Cerrone, Hot Chocolate, Amanda Lear) and cutting-edge film soundtracks from the likes of Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Barry De Vorzon. Rusty also span the nascent sounds of Britian’s next new wave – Japan, Landscape, the Human League, Visage, Ultravox, Fad Gadget.
Tracklist:
CD1 1. The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast Version) (3:53) 2. Tubeway Army - Down in the Park (1998 Remastered) (4:23) 3. Magazine - Permafrost (5:04) 4. Vice Versa - New Girls Neutrons (2:05) 5. Fad Gadget - Back to Nature (5:49) 6. Pretenders - Private Life (6:25) 7. Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing (4:15) 8. The Normal - Warm Leatherette (3:23) 9. Throbbing Gristle - Hot on Heels of Love (4:20) 10. Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - Day Breaks, Night Heals (4:03) 11. Rusty Egan - R.E.R.B. (Shock 2010 Mix PG EQ (5:57) 12. The Glitter Band - Makes You Blind (3:13) 13. John Foxx - Burning Car (3:15) 14. Yello - Bostich (Album LP Version) (2:11) 15. Dalek I - Destiny (Dalek I Love You) (3:40) 16. Cowboys International - Thrash (3:05) 17. Joy Division - Shadowplay (3:52) 18. Cabaret Voltaire - Nag, Nag, Nag (4:37) 19. Ultravox! - Hiroshima Mon Amour (5:14)
CD2 1. Sparks - The Number One Song In Heaven (7:26) 2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the D - Electricity [Dindisc Version] (3:43) 3. Ultravox - Passing Strangers (3:51) 4. Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (Single Edit) (3:18) 5. Lulu - The Man Who Sold the World (3:50) 6. Jeff Wayne - The eve of the war (disco re-mix) (6:26) 7. Don Armando's 2nd Avenue Rhumb - I'm an Indian Too (3:23) 8. Japan - Life In Tokyo (3:33) 9. Blondie - Heart Of Glass (12" Version) (5:50) 10. Amanda Lear - Follow Me (4:08) 11. Riechmann - Wunderbar (5:43) 12. Eno Moebius Roedelius - Broken Head (5:27) 13. M - Pop Muzik (12 Inch Version) (4:56) 14. Barry De Vorzon - Theme From "The Warriors" (Fro (3:57) 15. Roxy Music - Angel Eyes (Extended Remix) (6:37) 16. Suicide - Dream Baby Dream (Long Version (6:20)
CD3 1. Grace Jones - La vie en rose (7:27) 2. Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady (4:09) 3. The Walker Brothers - No Regrets (5:43) 4. Hot Chocolate - Put Your Love in Me (5:46) 5. The Men - I Don't Depend On You (2003 Mi (4:35) 6. Metro - Criminal World (5:27) 7. Billy Cobham - Spanish Moss - A Sound Portrai (2:52) 8. Cerrone - Supernature (Original Cerrone (10:05) 9. Garçons - French Boy (9:27) 10. Lori & the Chameleons - Touch (4:19) 11. Visage - Moon Over Moscow (4:00) 12. Kraftwerk - Schaufensterpuppen (3:39) 13. Mick Ronson - Only After Dark (3:31) 14. Landscape - Japan (3:22) 15. La Düsseldorf - Rheinita (4:23)
CD4 1. The Cure - A Forest (5:54) 2. The Regents - 7 Teen (3:25) 3. Zaine Griff - Ashes and Diamonds (4:43) 4. Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short (3:21) 5. Telex - Moskow Diskow (4:57) 6. Taxi Girl - Mannequin (4:49) 7. Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennessee (2:23) 8. The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevi (4:02) 9. Simple Minds - Changeling (4:13) 10. Skids - Animation (4:04) 11. Giorgio Moroder - Chase (8:26) 12. Rinder & Lewis - Willie and the Hand Jive (8:12) 13. Visage - Fade To Grey (1980 Dance Mix) (6:43) 14. Gina X Performance - No G.D.M. (7" edit) (4:05) 15. Vangelis - Chung Kuo (5:31) 16. Lou Reed - Perfect Day (3:44)
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