'‘Curses presents... Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX’ - Dj Sampler (Eclectic)

 

Title: '‘Curses presents... Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX’ - Dj Sampler 

Artist: Various

Label: Eclectica

Cat Number: 54141667066

Genre: Dark Disco

1: Nuovo Testamento - Heartbeat (Curses Remix) 

2: Mary Möör - Pretty Day 

3: J.W.B. Hits The Beat - Body On Body (Curses Revamp) 

4: Cabaret Voltaire - Blue Heat (12" Mix) 

5: Nuovo Testamento - Heartbeat (Curses Remix - Edit) 

The tracks on this album sampler are scheduled for release later in the year on an album, and feature a couple of remixes from Curses, who also provides occasional vocals, in the shape of  both ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘ Body On Body’. In addition we’ve also got ‘Blue Heat’ from Cabaret Voltaire and ‘Pretty Day’ from  Mary Möör. ‘Blue Heat’, originally featured on ‘Micro Phonies’, and almost 40 years old, still sounds incredibly fresh. ‘Pretty Day’ is a nihilistic, distorted, off balance disco symphony on crack and another track that more than holds its own 41 years later. Both ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘Body On Body’ feel toughened up a little. However, they don’t depart too far from the respective originals, which is not a bad thing. Nothing has been tampered with too much; a necessary course of action to preserve the pervasive melancholic, but synthetically funky overtones necessary for dance floor nirvana.