NEXT WAVE ACID PUNX DEUX

TRACKLISTING

1 Throbbing Gristle - Distant Dreams, Pt. 2
2 Mary Möör - Pretty Day
3 Sad Lovers & Giants - Things We Never Did
4 Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo)
5 Big Audio Dynamite - The Big V
6 Cabaret Voltaire - Blue Heat
7 Nitzer Ebb - Hearts and Mind s (Mix Hypersonic)
8 Clan Of Xymox - Obsession
9 In Sotto Voce - In Sotto Voce
10 Psyche - Prisoner To Desire (Single Mix)
11 Propaganda - The Murde r Of Love
12 DAF - Brothers (Gabi Mix)
13 Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See14 Book Of Love - Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes) (I Dream Of Jeanne Mix)
15 Absolute Body Control - Total Control

1 Boytronic - Voloczny
2 The KV B - Still Warm (2023 version)
3 Cardinal & Nun - Freak And Weak
4 Jennifer Touch - Altars
5 Matrixxman - Assembly Line
6 Years Of Denial - It Sucks< br>7 Silver Tears - Always Shine (Wait For The Rain)
8 Essaie Pas - Retox
9 Aili x Transistorcake - Dansu
10 Dina Summer - Darkness
11 Patriarchy - Suffer
12 Maelstrom & Louisahhh - Hate Machine
13 Dame Area - Buon Cittadi no
14 Kris Baha - Into The Dark
15 Desire - Love Races On
16 Blind Delo n feat. I Hate Models - Flashback
17 Poison Point - Altered Beats
18 Roe D eers - Muscles

1 Boy Harsher - Machina (feat. Mariana Saldaña) (Dark Remi x)
2 Silent Servant - Non Fiction
3 J.W.B. Hits The Beat - Body On Body (C urses Revamp)
4 Hungry Boys - Toi
5 Autumns - Repeat Prescription
6 Nuo vo Testamento - Heartbeat (Curses Remix - Edit)
7 Buzz Kull - A Place (That's Meant To Be)
8 Soft Crash - Dolce Morte
9 Dame Bonnet & Mufti - Pleasure Dreams
10 Ultra Sunn - Night Is Mine
11 Neu-Romancer - Burning Eyes
12 EVA - Industrial Hope
13 Andi vs Randolph & Mortimer - Formidable Truths
1 4 Zanias - Tryptamine Palace
15 The Hacker - Monopoly
16 Paradox Obscur - Evo-Devo


INFO

Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX is the second compilation for Eskimo Recordings compiled and curated by Berlin-b ased Musician and DJ Luca Venezia, aka Curses, to explore the darker side of clu b music. Spread across 3CDs and three 2LPs Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX features a m ammoth 49 tracks that join the dots between early industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle, EBM legends like Nitzer Ebb and the post-punk experiments of people lik e Malcolm McLaren and Big Audio Dynamite with some of the most exciting artists around today, such as Boy Harsher, Nuovo Testamento and Years of Denial.
Where the first Next Wave Acid Punx compilation was a personal journey for L uca, a lockdown inspired exploration of his record collection to find the thread that ran through the music that had soundtracked much of his life, DEUX is a ce lebration of that music let loose on the world, the thrill of music performed li ve, the smoke and strobe filled clubs you'll hear it in and the artists you'll f ind on those stages.

"After our enforced break, getting back out ther e and playing live again really brought home to me so much of what I love about the scene I'm in but also just how important live music has been and is to club culture over the years," Luca explains. "Too often we think of club nights and l ive gigs as these separate things, but throughout the years it's where the two m eet, the friction that can cause, that you'll find the most vibrant scenes."

"There's an energy, an atmosphere that you get with live music, an unpre dictability where at any moment something can go wrong or even better right in a way you never expect. I think about a live set we played at a Lebanese festival where our MPC drum machine froze up because of all the dust and sand trapped in the pads. We had to improvise half our set, jamming bass and guitar and pedal F X and vocals, embracing this surreal environment and experience, something that could only happen in the moment."

"With Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX I wa nted to celebrate those bands and artists, past and present who, to me, represen t that spirit. Both full live bands and makeshift electronic duos alike, the kin d of acts that you might have found wedged between DJs back in the day at The Ha cienda in the 80s, Trash in the 00s or today at nights like Berlin's MILK ME, EX BTN in Paris, Night Terrors + SC&P in London, New York City's Synthicide or Ukra ine's Worn Pop."

"So I've put this compilation together much like my favourite kind of night, going out to see some bands play, hitting up a club whe re live music and DJs blur together, before the serious business of the after pa rty. On Chapter 1 you'll find bands like Vicious Pink, DAF and Cabaret Voltaire, some of these acts are more obscure than others, some flirted with pop and even the charts but they were all embracing new ways of working in the late 70s and 80s that both set them apart and set the scene for much of what we think of as c lub music."

"Chapter 2 moves the night on, and this is the sound of t he clubs I love to both play and just hang out in these days, clubs where the pe ople involved put a lot more time into digging through the crates than working o n their Instagram Reels. These are places where you're as likely to find a band on stage as you are a DJ, where 80's German electro pop by a band like Boytronic seamlessly flows into tracks like Silent Servant's Non Fiction. Timeless music that can be romantic, dreamlike and ethereal one moment, then veer into dark, in dustrial sounds the next."

"Then finally we get to that part of the n ight where you probably should go home but if it's too late for good decisions t here's still time for good music. Things are a bit wilder here, the drums a bit harder, the synths are more aggressive, tracks like The Hacker's Monopoly, Zania s' Tryptamine Palace or EVA's Industrial Hope that don't let up, don't let you g o, just subjugate you to the beat and keep you there till you stumble out blinki ng into a new day."