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Artist: Various | Label: Soul Jazz | Format: 2xLP | Genre: Rock / Dance | Vinyl Condition: Mint | Cover Condition: Sealed
Various
New York Noise: Dance Music From the New York Underground
Soul Jazz 529C – special LP release on limited YELLOW vinyl for Record Store Day 23
Soul Jazz Records New York Noise: Dance Music from The New York Underground 1978-82.
Gets a new 20th anniversary one-off limited-edition heavyweight yellow vinyl pressing + download code exclusively for Record Store Day 2023.
This new edition features classic New York post-punk, punk funk, synth wave and no wave tracks from Arthur Russell/Dinosaur L, James White and the Contortions, The Theoretical Girls, Mars, Konk, Material, Bush Tetras, and Lizzy Mercier Descloux alongside rare tracks by the likes of Alan Vega (Suicide), Chain Gang and Implog.
New York Noise sums up the point in time and space where dance music and punk rock first met as New Yorks No Wave artists such as Glenn Branca, James White alongside dance musics experimental pioneers including Arthur Russell (Dinosaur l), Bill Laswell (Material), and Konk created new musical art forms out of this union.
Compilations like this are necessary because they document bygone fragments of time and keep them alive for younger generations. Compilations like this are dangerous because they tend to fall in the hands of young bands who spend more time looking behind than ahead. –All Music
New York Noise is a comprehensive look at the post-punk and no wave era, a short period in time whose influence is still immeasurable and sensed today. –The Guardian
One of the most satisfying archival collections, Soul Jazzs compilation New York Noise 1978-1982, gathers far-reaching tracks from such diverse acts as Liquid Liquid, Material, and Glenn Branca. –Pitchfork
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