Borghesia - "ZMR" (CD1: Chapter 1: Origins)
Gina X Performance - "Kaddish"
Suicide - "Wild In Blue" (2005 Remaster)
Demolition Group - "You Better Stay Alive "
BPM AM - "Come To Me" (vocal version)
Ted Milton - "Love Is Like A Violence "
Yello - "Lost Again" (extended dance version)
Mystery - "Mystery Girl" (club mix remastered)
In-D - "Virgin In-D Sky's"
Judy Torres - "No Reason To Cry" (instrumental)
Hard Corps - "Porte Bonheur" (Lucky Charm 2021)
Moderna & Theus Mago - "Francesca (Wild At Heart)" (CD2: Chapter 2: Break A Sweat)
Middle Sky Boom - "Slow With The Run" (feat Eliezer - Il Est Vilaine remix)
Tiempo De Maldad - "Maxico" (Alvee remix)
Zombies In Miami - "El Wild"
Juan Maclean - "She's Breaking Up" (feat Fantastic Twins)
Damon Jee & Darlyn Vlys - "Kronos" (Wild mix)
Radial Gaze - "Totem Echoes" (You Man remix)
Rina, Benji & Megaphonim - "Ani Cham"
Modular Project - "Electronic Disco" (Curses remix)
Curses - "Discipline" (CD3: Chapter 3: Maximum Heat)
Chinaski - "Hart Und Kalt "
Cornelius Doctor - "Life In Chains "
Franz Scala - "Shortwave Memories "
Tronik Youth - "Spirit Dancer "
Cardopusher - "Escape From Reality "
Kendal & David Carretta - "Pastaga"
Local Suicide & Skelesys - "Faster Faster "
Pablo Bozzi - "Storm In Dallas "
Review: Next Wave Acid Punks is the first compilation from Curses (real nae Luca Venezia). It's something of an epic, with similarly lofty ambitions: namely to chronicle 40 years of "dark club music", most of which has its roots in the pitch-black new wave and post-punk scenes of the early 1980s. He doffs a cap to the sound's origins on disc one, offering up pioneering cuts from the likes of Gina X, Suicide, Front 242 and Hard Corps, before bringing the story into the 90s and 21st century on discs two and three. These discs are packed with throbbing - and progressively more intense - cuts that variously join the dots between EBM, industrial, new beat, punk funk, dark Italo-disco, electroclash and much more besides. In a word: impressive.
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