ARTIST...: VA TITLE....: Plastic Dance: Volume Two YEAR.....: 2019 LABEL....: Cache Cache CAT.NO...: CACHE021 GENRE....: New Wave TIME.....: 36:30 SIZE.....: 83.75 MB QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo ENCODER..: LAME SOURCE...: WEB RLS.DATE.: 2019/05/02 WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Blkkndy6rfeam6lpgxcozt5tfmu TRACKLIST 01) (03:09) George Atwell░-░Meat Grinder 02) (03:35) Vibrant Thigh░-░Walking Away 03) (02:44) Stabat Stable░-░IIO 04) (03:52) Cos░-░Einstein 05) (05:32) Beach Surgeons░-░Chicken Skin Planet (Edit) 06) (04:41) Cosmic Overdose░-░Rσttan 07) (02:18) Andrzej Korzynski░-░Zombie House 08) (02:32) Ti-Tho░-░Die Liebe Ist Ein Abenteuer 09) (03:52) Gerry and The Holograms░-░Jeep (Version) 10) (04:15) pragVEC░-░Welcome Home Greetings sisters and brothers. LetÆs talk about reductionist revolution and the kicking in of doors. LetÆs talk of iconoclasts and culture bombs. LetÆs talk about moral panic and censorship. LetÆs talk about punk rock. On second thoughts letÆs not bother. The white noise is already deafening and actually, thinking about it, the Sex Pistols were really a heavy metal band with a funny singer and the whole shebang eventually, as all revolutions do, succumbed to conservative dogma and self parody. And anyway, as Dr Cooper Clarke said, ôpunks were just hippies with zipsö. Instead, sisters and brothers, letÆs talk about the dangerous counterrevolutionaries who went out and bought a cheap synth and a rudimentary drum machine. The ones that got what æpunkÆ was really about. The democratization of art. A democratization unhindered by rules concerning the means of production. A democratization forged in the blazing fire of unrestricted influence. A democratization free of perceived notions of ôtalentö. Sniffing Glue said learn three chords and form a band, Throbbing Gristle said why learn any chords at allà I am an artist because I say I am. More Marcel Duchamp than Malcolm McClaren. So, sisters and brothers, who do you think led the counter-revolution? Well IÆll tell you. It was the man who stormed the Bastille and kicked the door down in the first place and he did it on the 16th July 1977. With the help of Tommy Vance. John LydonÆs playlist that night on VanceÆs show included Tim Buckley, The Creation, Augustus Pablo, Bobby Byrd, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Peter Hammill and Can and put paid to any punk rock ôyear zeroö claims. Meanwhile, locked out of the studio, Malcolm had to listen to the counterrevolutionary manifesto being broadcast across the metropolis. Mark that date in your diaries, sisters and brothers: 16th July, the anniversary of the birth of ôpost punkö. Just over a year later in October, Lydon rammed the point home with the release of Public Image, a personal and musical manifesto in 7ö form. The music on Plastic Dance 2 is the strangely coloured, distorted and frighteningly beautiful fruit of the seeds planted on that fateful day. Lessons learned and inspiration taken from the sonic aesthetics of dub, knowing that not all disco sucked and that even jazz was allowed. Music shaped by wonky approximation and appropriation. The artists on Plastic Dance 2 were artists because they said they were. Listen to their work and youÆll know they were. Listen in transcendent wonderment as George Attwell creates alchemical space funk in his home studioà as a future Mock Turtle and members of The Manchester Music Collective channel Robert Calvert and Bill Nelsonà as Korzynski comes on like a Jeff Mills remix of Terry Riley. Listen in the wide-eyed joy of being as Stabat StableÆs drum machine runs amok to the accompaniment of discordant organ stabsà as a future founder of 808 State channels Albert Ayler alongside a galloping synth arpeggio. IÆll stop right there, brothers and sisters, as crass comparison does this art no justice. Let it trigger your own parallel universe because the Andrew Weatherall -