STRUT IS SET TO RELEASE TREVOR JACKSON PRESENTS METAL DANCE ON FEBRUARY 21
Following their foray into the hidden corners of revered Manchester label Factory Records with Fac. Dance, Strut dig further into the under-explored world of industrial & post-punk dance floor material with Metal Dance, a new compilation from one of the UK’s most respected DJ / producers, the man behind Playgroup and original founder of the legendary Output Recordings, Trevor Jackson.
Drawing on specials that have peppered his DJ sets for over two decades, Jackson mines deep and hones in a time when socialist realist aesthetics and dark machine funk collided explosively during the ‘80s. Much of the album touches on EBM, “Electronic Body Music,” a phrase coined by Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk for the dancefloor-oriented sounds that emerged as the industrial influences of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle locked horns with European synth-punk and new wave electronics. Led by bands like DAF and Front 242, a slew of disciples followed, from Nitzer Ebb to great underground bands like Analysis, Naked Lunch and Portion Control.
Jackson cherry-picks classics and rarities from this era, including a new edit of Fini Tribe favourite ‘De Testimony’, the cold dance of Analysis’ ‘Surface Tension’, Neon’s dark ‘Voices’, re-interpreting a Master C&J riff from the early days of Chicago house, and hard-hitting dubs from Honey Bane, Alien Sex Fiend and Factory Records band Stanton Miranda. Herein lie cold wave sounds that have heavily influenced today’s crop of artists – from LCD Soundsystem and The Knife to Factory Floor and Hot Chip.
Elsewhere on the album, Jackson brings in unexpected gems – a track from cult John Carpenter film ‘Escape From New York’ re-edited by Klein & MBO’s Mario Boncaldo, a lost album track by avant garde Spanish artist Diseno Corbusier and a UK promo-only mix of Yello’s post-punk workout ‘You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess’.
Following his award-winning graphic design work for Soulwax and fresh from projects with car giants Lexus and legendary Italian clothing brand Stone Island, Jackson draws on his considerable status as an artist and graphic designer with some stunning package graphics on Metal Dance. The album is released as a deluxe digipak (2CD), gatefold (2LP) and digital.
Tracklist:
CD 1
1. The Bubblemen – The Bubblemen Are Coming
2. 400 Blows – Pressure (Club Pressure)
3. Cabaret Voltaire – Seconds Too Late
4. Neon – Voices
5. Pete Shelley – Witness The Change (Dub version)
6. Executive Slacks – The Bus (EP version)
7. Analysis – Surface Tension
8. Nitzer Ebb – Control I’m Here (Clouston’s Controlled Edit)
9. DAF – Brothers (Mix Gabi)
10. Portion Control – The Great Divide (Dub)
11. Stanton Miranda – Wheels Over Indian Trails (Dub)
12. Jah Wobble – Invaders Of The Heart (Exotic Decadent Disco mix)
13. SPK – Metal Dance
14. Fini Tribe – De Testimony (Collapsing Edit)
CD 2
1. Alien Sex Fiend – Under The Thunder (Ignore The Dub)
2. Einsturzende Neubauten – Yü-Gung (Adrian Sherwood mix)
3. Mark Stewart – Fatal Attraction (Contagious)
4. Hard Corps – Je Suis Passee (Dub)
5. Naked Lunch – Slipping Again
6. Secession – Touch (Part 4)
7. The Cage feat. Nona Hendryx – Do What Ya Wanna Do (Dub version)
8. Yello – You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (UK promo mix)
9. John Carpenter & Alan Howarth – The Duke Arrives – The Barricade / The President At The Train (Extended version)
10. Ledernacken – Amok!
11. Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened
12. Honey Bane – Guilty Dub
13. Diseño Corbusier – Golpe De Amistad
