Rusty Egan Presents Blitzed!
Various Artists
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Release Date: 28/06/2024
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, its 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 its 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 a 66-track 4CD set. 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.
Disc 1
1: Being Boiled (Fast Product Version) - The Human League
2: Down in the Park - Tubeway Army
3: Permafrost - Magazine
4: New Girls Neutrons - Vice Versa
5: Back to Nature - Fad Gadget
6: Private Life - The Pretenders
7: Nightclubbing - Iggy Pop
8: Warm Leatherette - The Normal
9: Hot On the Heels of Love - Throbbing Gristle
10: Day Breaks, Night Heals - Thomas Leet & Robert Rental
11: R.E.R.B. - Shock
12: Makes You Blind - The Glitter Band
13: Burning Car - John Foxx
14: Bostich - Yello
15: Dalek I Love You (Destiny) - Dalek I
16: Thrash - Cowboys International
17: Shadowplay - Joy Division
18: Nag Nag Nag - Cabaret Voltaire
19: Hiroshima Mon Amour - Ultravox
Disc 2
1: The Number One Song in Heaven (Long Version) - Sparks
2: Electricity (Dindisc 1980 Version) - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
3: Passing Strangers - Ultravox
4: Radioactivity (Edit) - Kraftwerk
5: The Man Who Sold the World - Lulu
6: The Eve of the War (Disco Remix) - Jeff Wayne
7: I'm an Indian Too - Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
8: Life in Tokyo (1979 Single Version) - Japan
9: Heart of Glass (12" Version) - Blondie
10: Follow Me - Amanda Lear
11: Wunderbar - Wolfgang Riechmann
12: Broken Head - Eno, Moebius & Roedelius
13: Pop Muzik (12" Version) - M
14: Theme from 'The Warriors' - Barry De Vorzon
15: Angel Eyes (Extended Remix) - Roxy Music
16: Dream Baby Dream (Long Version) - Suicide
Disc 3
1: La Vie En Rose - Grace Jones
2: Hamburger Lady - Throbbing Gristle
3: No Regrets - The Walker Brothers
4: Put Your Love in Me - Hot Chocolate
5: I Don't Depend On You - The Men
6: Criminal World - Metro
7: Spanish Moss - A Sound Portrait: Storm - Billy Cobham
8: Supernature (12" Full Length Version) - Cerrone
9: French Boy - Garçons
10: Touch - Lori and The Chameleons
11: Moon Over Moscow - Visage
12: Schaufensterpuppen - Kraftwerk
13: Only After Dark - Mick Ronson
14: Japan - Landscape
15: Rheinita (Single Version) - La Düsseldorf
Disc 4
1: A Forest (12" Version) - The Cure
2: 7 Teen - The Regents
3: Ashes and Diamonds - Zaine Griff
4: To Cut a Long Story Short - Spandau Ballet
5: Moskow Diskow - Telex
6: Mannequin - Taxi-Girl
7: Memphis Tennessee - Silicon Teens
8: I Heard It Through the Grapevine - The Slits
9: Changeling - Simple Minds
10: Animation (Edit) - Skids
11: Chase (From 'Midnight Express') - Giorgio Moroder
12: Willie and the Hand Jive (12" Version) - Rinder & Lewis
13: Fade to Grey (1980 Dance Mix) - Visage
14: No G.D.M. - Gina X Performance
15: Chung Kuo - Vangelis
16: Perfect Day - Lou Reed