Released on Cabaret Voltaire’s Doublevision, originally an outlet for video, but then the records followed (I had the VHS of ‘Johnny Yesno’.) ‘Dancing Ghosts’ is the work of CTI, aka Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and John Lacey. And is a piece of music ahead of its time. I don’t know much about these things. However, it is apparently one of the first tracks to combine the Roland TR808 and TB303”. Of course we’re talking acid house well before it was a thing. And this is an astounding piece of work. A friction filled piece of slow, haunting dance music that must have really felt like the future to anyone lucky enough to have heard it at the time. Which I didn’t, and I’m surprised at that as I was a big Cabs fan and one of my best friends had bought everything by Throbbing Gristle. A deep, elemental piece of electronic music is this, in which so much that followed can be heard. Arguably, one of the most important and influential tracks ever made. Hyperbolic? Moi?
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