London, 1979. From the rubble and ashes of punk a new youth cult was emerging. Divinely inspired by Bowie, Roxy Music and Kraftwerk, a new tribe the press started labelling New Romantics, or Futurists, discarded punk's old hat claims towards authenticity and protest, in pursuit of glamour, make up, dressing up and dancing. Their home was The Blitz Club, a tiny wine bar at the edge of Covent Garden and what went on there between 1979 and 1980 would genuinely change the world. The other name for this cult? Blitz Kids. Without necessarily knowing it, The Blitz was birthing the next wave of British pop stars. A young Boy George ran the cloakroom, it's 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. Fashion designers in Regency ballgowns mingled with secretaries in rubber, post boys dressed as Biggles danced next to art school kids dressed as Pierrot. David Bowie assembled his extras for the 'Ashes To Ashes' video from the Blitz kids. Mick Jagger was refused entry. Too square. And the club had a mighty soundtrack, assembled painstakingly by it's 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... Compiled exhaustively from his DJ sets, 'Rusty Egan Presents Blitzed!' 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.
Tracklist:
The Human League / Being Boiled (Fast Product Version)
Tubeway Army / Down in the Park
Magazine / Permafrost
Vice Versa / New Girls Neutrons
Fad Gadget / Back to Nature
Pretenders / Private Life
Iggy Pop / Nightclubbing
The Normal / Warm Leatherette
Throbbing Gristle / Hot on the Heels of Love
Thomas Leer ; Robert Rental / Day Breaks, Night Heals
Shock / R.E.R.B
The Glitter Band / Makes You Blind
John Foxx / Burning Car
Yello / Bostich (Album Version)
Dalek I / Dalek I Love You (Destiny
Cowboys International / Thrash
Joy Division / Shadowplay
Cabaret Voltaire / Nag Nag Nag
Ultravox! / Hiroshima Mon Amour
Sparks / the Number One Song in Heaven (Long Version)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark / Electricity (Dindisc 1980 Version)
Ultravox / Passing Strangers
Kraftwerk / Radioactivity (Edit)
Lulu / the Man Who Sold the World
Jeff Wayne / the Eve of the War (Disco Re- Mix)
Don Armando's 2nd Avenue Rhumba Band / I'm An Indian Too
Japan / Life in Tokyo (1979 Single Version)
Blondie / Heart of Glass (12" Version)
Amanda Lear / Follow Me
Wolfgang Riechmann / Wunderbar
Eno - Moebius - Roedelius / Broken Head
M / Pop Muzik (12" Version)
Barry de Vorzon / Theme from 'The Warriors'
Roxy Music / Angel Eyes (Extended Remix)
Suicide / Dream Baby Dream (Long Version)
Grace Jones / la Vie en Rose
Throbbing Gristle / Hamburger Lady
The Walker Brothers / No Regrets
Hot Chocolate / Put Your Love in Me
The Men / I Don't Depend on You
Metro / Criminal World
Billy Cobham / Spanish Moss a Sound Portrait: Storm
Cerrone / Supernature (12" Full Length Version)
Garçons / French Boy
Lori and the Chameleons / Touch
Visage / Moon Over Moscow
Kraftwerk / Schaufensterpuppen
Mick Ronson / Only After Dark
Landscape / Japan
La Düsseldorf / Rheinita (Single Version)
The Cure / a Forest (12" Version)
The Regents / 7 Teen
Zaine Griff / Ashes and Diamonds
Spandau Ballet / to Cut a Long Story Short
Telex / Moskow Diskow
Taxi Girl / Mannequin
Silicon Teens / Memphis Tennessee
The Slits / I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Simple Minds / Changeling
Skids / Animation (Edit)
Giorgio Moroder / Chase (From 'Midnight Express')
Rinder and Lewis / Willie and the Hand Jive (12" Version)
Visage / Fade to Grey (1980 Dance Mix)
Gina X Performance / No G.D.M
Vangelis / Chung Kuo
Lou Reed / Perfect Day
UPC: 740155738532 Label: Edsel Records Release Date: 6.28.24 Format: CD
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