Various Artists
VA / Soul Jazz Records Presents - Two Synths A Guitar (And) A Drum Machine: Post Punk Dance Vol.1 (Neon Green Vinyl) (Soul Jazz Records)
Format: 2 x Neon Green Vinyl LP
Cat No: SJRLP462C
Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Two Synths, A Guitar (And) A Drum Machine’ is a new collection of current DIY post-punk shaped by the mutant sounds of no wave, punk funk and New York Noise bands from the late 70s and early 80s that collided with the world of underground dance music found at the Paradise Garage, Mudd Club in New York City (ESG, Arthur Russell, Bush Tetras, Talking Heads, Suicide, Liquid Liquid).
Other influences cited here include Manchester and Sheffield’s industrial post-punk sounds of the 1980s (Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Gang of Four) as well as the 1970s German electronic experimentalism of Cluster, Neu!, Harmonia and Can.
Featured artists from around the globe include Los Angeles DIY band Automatic, New Fries from Toronto, artist/music collaborators Toresch from Germany, Susumu Makai from
Japan/UK, Vex Ruffin from the Philippines/California and Madmadmad, Gramme, Tom of England and other UK groups.
That all the bands featured here manage to make distinctive contemporary music out of these 80s roots is testament to the wide range of other musics that are seamlessly absorbed into a modern melting pot of sound - hip hop, the electronic European
avant-garde, rave culture and more.
Heavyweight double vinyl housed in bespoke individual inner sleeves.
TRACKLISTING:
1. Automatic - Too Much Money
2. Zongamin - Underwater Paramid
3. New Fries - Lily
4. Vex Ruffin & Fab 5 Freddy - The Balance
5. Ixna - Somebody Said
6. Leroy Duncann - Dream River
7. Tom Of England - Neon Green
8. Toresch - Tocar
9. Becker & Mukai - La Rivière des Perles
10. Gramme - Discolovers
11. Niagara - Ida
12. Charles Manier - Sift Through Art Collecting People
13. Black Deer - Baseball Shorts
14. Madmadmad - Hot Disco
15. Wino D - Untitled
