Name: Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk and The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

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CRCDBOX107

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-03-26

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929110700

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3 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Various

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New Wave / Post Punk

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Cherry Red

Cherry Red is a British label that was founded by Iain McNay in 1978. Also known as Cherry Red Records, this label has become associated with the company Music and Media Group. With the label code LC 6730, Cherry Red has made a name for itself in the music industry. It is important to note that this label should not be confused with the US label of the same name.

From off-kilter funk and electronic minimalism to primal punk howls. It features A Certain Ratio, 23 Skidoo, The Stranglers, Jah Wobble, The Fun Boy Three, The Pop Group, Ian Dury, Nightmares In Wax And Many More.

In the wake of punk’s seismic and well recounted impact on the UK music scene, countless hitherto unavailable influences suddenly became available and de rigueur for the nation’s would-be pop stars. Enabled by a new kind of record shop that began to appear across the country in Rough Trade’s image, and encouraged by an absolute disregard for ‘the rules’, interested young people were quickly exposed to a broad spectrum of music from beyond the realm of three chord rock ‘n roll. Nowhere was the outcome more notable than on the dancefloors of the day.

Shake The Foundations captures that after dark revolution, showcasing an era when disco, dub, electronica, funk and – whisper it – pop sensibilities – began to flood into the alternative, post-punk landscape. Running parallel with Ze Records and the no-wave movement in the US, clubs such as Marc Almond’s Digital Disco and legendary nights at The Garage in Nottingham, The State in Liverpool, the Blue Note in Derby and across London at nights like the Batcave became fast moving, democratic melting pots.

Across 3CDs, Bill Brewster selects highlights from his own extensive DJing career, each disc individually curated. As he himself puts it, “The important thing was not to impress James Brown, emulate the Fatback Band or wear Kraftwerk’s game-face. The point was to have a go. Shake The Foundations is not a comprehensive look at post-punk, so much as a shakily hand-drawn map of a particular area. It’s what happened when the post-punk fallout collided with the dancefloor, and forty years later we’re still feeling its effects”.

Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk and The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984

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