A new box set anthologises that period in the immediate aftermath of punk when musicians began drawing influence from US funk.
Bands - most notably Gang Of Four and The Pop Group - began marrying often confrontational lyrics and exploratory, experimental sounds with the bass and drum rhythms of Funkadelic and the Fatback Band, and emboldened by New York's no-wave movement brought post-punk to the dancefloor.
Compiled and with sleevenotes by noted DJ and writer Bill Brewster, the 3-disc Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984 features a raft rarely heard floorfillers from familiar bands like THE HIGSONS (pictured), A CERTAIN RATIO, SIMPLE MINDS, 23 SKIDOO and JAH WOBBLE to the less familiar - QUANDO QUANGO, PLAYGROUP, THE CHICKEN GRANNY etc...
Set for release through Cherry Red on 26 March, Shake The Foundations is available to pre-order here.
Track Listing
DISC ONE
- GUESS WHO? – A Certain Ratio
- COUP – 23 Skidoo
- 100 EVIL SMOKESTACKING BABY – Haircut 100
- THIS FEAR OF GODS – Simple Minds
- LOVE 30 – The Stranglers
- BORN EVERY MINUTE – The Passage
- SARAVA – Blue Rondo A La Turk
- SERBIAN VILLAGE – Medium Medium
- PUSH OUT THE BOAT – The Higsons
- POST WAR GLAMOUR GIRLS – John Cooper Clarke
- SKIN DEEP – The Passions
- INVADERS OF THE HEART (MIX ONE) –Jah Wobble
- CAN YOU MOVE – Modern Romance
- SLANG TEACHER – Wide Boy Awake
- HYPNOTISED – C Cat Trance
- STRETCH – Maximum Joy
DISC TWO:
- LIONS – Tones On Tail
- TRUST IS A MUST – Ian Dury
- WHAT DANCE IS THIS? – Perfect Zebras
- FAITH & HOPE & CHARITY – The Fun Boy Three
- DREAM GAMES – Shock
- RUSHA – Jesse Rae
- DON’T – Thomas Leer
- BIG MAN RESTLESS – Kissing The Pink
- BLUE FOR YOU – Paul Haig
- FREQUENCY 7 – Visage
- BANG EM RIGHT – Six Sed Red
- TINGLE – Quando Quango
- CCCAN’T YOU SEE – Vicious Pink
- MOVE ON – Fashiøn
- SET FIGHTER – Wide Boy Awake
DISC THREE:
- WHEN ARE WE? (NOW WE ARE) – Surface Mutants
- WHY ARE WE IN LOVE – Furniture
- ROB A BANK – The Pop Group
- GET IT RIGHT – Animal Magic
- BLACK LEATHER – Nightmares In Wax
- OBEDIENCE – Normil Hawaiians
- ASBESTOS LEAD ASBESTOS – The 012
- KEEP BEAT – Vee VV
- LIVING WILD – Mataya Clifford
- SO MANY WAYS – Electric Chairs
- DREAMS ARE BETTER – London Underground
- ARTY-FACT – Group Therapy
- WE ARE ALL ANIMALS – The Diagram Brothers
- QUIT THE BODY – The Chicken Granny
- BED BOUND SAGA – Machine Gunn Hogg And Co
- HOGGS MIGHT FLY – Playgroup
- SHAKE (THE FOUNDATIONS) – Glaxo Babies
- DISCO PURGE – Family Fodder
Pic by Steve Rapport