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Here's what Demon Music Group have to say about their latest release, which includes both Burning Car by John Foxx and Hiroshima Mon Amour by Ultravox!...

London, 1979. From the rubble and ashes of punk a new youth cult was emerging. Divinely inspired by Bowie, Roxy Music and Kraftwerk, a new tribe the press started labelling New Romantics, or Futurists, discarded punk’s old-hat claims towards authenticity and protest, in pursuit of glamour, make-up, dressing up and dancing. Their home was The Blitz Club, a tiny wine bar at the edge of Covent Garden and what went on there between 1979 and 1980 would genuinely change the world. The other name for this cult? Blitz Kids.

Without necessarily knowing it, The Blitz was birthing the next wave of British pop stars. A young Boy George ran the cloakroom, its host and doorman was a young Steve Strange, soon-to-be the frontman of Visage, Spandau Ballet played their first gig there and on a given night you might find yourself dancing next to a member of Ultravox. Fashion designers in Regency ballgowns mingled with secretaries in rubber, post boys dressed as Biggles danced next to art school kids dressed as Pierrot. David Bowie assembled his extras for the Ashes To Ashes video from the Blitz kids. Mick Jagger was refused entry. Too square.

And the club had a mighty soundtrack, assembled painstakingly by its resident DJ Rusty Egan. Rusty’s sets brought together heroes like Eno, Iggy, and Lou Reed cool European electronic pioneers like Kraftwerk, Telex and Yello, the electronic side of disco (Cerrone, Hot Chocolate, Amanda Lear) and cutting-edge film soundtracks from the likes of Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Barry De Vorzon. Rusty also spans the nascent sounds of Britian’s next new wave – Japan, Landscape, The Human League, Visage, Ultravox, Fad Gadget…

Compiled exhaustively from his DJ sets, Rusty Egan Presents Blitzed! brings together the sounds of a night at the club circa 1980 on either 66 track 4CD or 36 track 4LP sets. Beautifully presented with contemporary photography from Sheila Rock, Peter Ashworth and Terry Smith, the booklets also contain sleeve notes from Alexis Petridis and Rusty himself.



The full track-listings are as follows...

CD One
01. Being Boiled (Fast Product Version) [The Human League]
02. Down In The Park [Tubeway Army]
03. Permafrost [Magazine]
04. New Girls / Neutrons [Vice Versa]
05. Back To Nature [Fad Gadget]
06. Private Life [Pretenders]
07. Nightclubbing [Iggy Pop]
08. Warm Leatherette [The Normal]
09. Hot On The Heels Of Love [Throbbing Gristle]
10. Day Breaks, Night Heals [Thomas Leer & Robert Rental]
11. R.E.R.B. [Shock]
12. Makes You Blind [The Glitter Band]
13. Burning Car [John Foxx]
14. Bostich (Album Version) [Yello]
15. (Destiny) Dalek I Love You [Dalek I]
16. Thrash [Cowboys International]
17. Shadowplay [Joy Division]
18. Nag Nag Nag [Cabaret Voltaire]
19. Hiroshima Mon Amour [Ultravox!]

CD Two
01. The Number One Song In Heaven (Long Version) [Sparks]
02. Electricity (Dindisc 1980 Version) [Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark]
03. Passing Strangers [Ultravox]
04. Radioactivity (Edit) [Kraftwerk]
05. The Man Who Sold The World [Lulu]
06. The Eve Of The War (Disco Re- Mix) [Jeff Wayne]
07. I’m An Indian Too [Don Armando’s 2nd Avenue Rhumba Band]
08. Life in Tokyo (Short Version) [Japan]
09. Heart Of Glass (12" Version) [Blondie]
10. Follow Me [Amanda Lear]
11. Wunderbar [Wolfgang Riechmann]
12. Broken Head [Eno - Moebius - Roedelius]
13. Pop Muzik (12" Version) [M]
14. Theme From 'The Warriors' [Barry De Vorzon]
15. Angel Eyes (Extended Remix) [Roxy Music]
16. Dream Baby Dream (Long Version) [Suicide]

CD Three
01. La Vie En Rose [Grace Jones]
02. Hamburger Lady [Throbbing Gristle]
03. No Regrets [The Walker Brothers]
04. Put Your Love In Me [Hot Chocolate]
05. I Don't Depend On You [The Men]
06. Criminal World [Metro]
07. Spanish Moss – A Sound Portrait: Storm [Billy Cobham]
08. Supernature (12" Full Length Version) [Cerrone]
09. French Boy [Garçons]
10. Touch [Lori And The Chameleons]
11. Moon Over Moscow [Visage]
12. Schaufensterpuppen [Kraftwerk]
13. Only After Dark [Mick Ronson]
14. Japan [Landscape]
15. Rheinita (Single Version) [La Düsseldorf]

CD Four
01. A Forest (Album Version) [The Cure]
02. 7 Teen [The Regents]
03. Ashes And Diamonds [Zaine Griff]
04. To Cut A Long Story Short [Spandau Ballet]
05. Moskow Diskow [Telex]
06. Mannequin [Taxi-Girl]
07. Memphis Tennessee [Silicon Teens]
08. I Heard It Through The Grapevine [The Slits]
09. Changeling [Simple Minds]
10. Animation (Edit) [Skids]
11. Chase (From 'Midnight Express' Soundtrack) [Giorgio Moroder]
12. Willie And The Hand Jive (12" Version) [Rinder And Lewis]
13. Fade To Grey (1980 Dance Mix) [Visage]
14. No G.D.M. [Gina X Performance]
15. Chung Kuo [Vangelis]
16. Perfect Day [Lou Reed]



LP One
A01. Being Boiled (Fast Product Version)The Human League]
A02. Down In The Park [Tubeway Army]
A03. Back To Nature [Fad Gadget]
A04. New Girls Neutrons [Vice Versa]
A05. Hot On The Heels Of Love [Throbbing Gristle]
B01. Warm Leatherette [The Normal]
B02. Nag Nag Nag [Cabaret Voltaire]
B03. Burning Car [John Foxx]
B04. Electricity (Dindisc 1980 Version) [Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark]
B05. R.E.R.B. [Shock]

LP Two
C01. Hiroshima Mon Amour [Ultravox!]
C02. Permafrost [Magazine]
C03. Put Your Love In Me [Hot Chocolate]
C04. Moon Over Moscow [Visage]
D01. The Number One Song In Heaven (Long Version) [Sparks]
D02. Makes You Blind [The Glitter Band]
D03. 7 Teen [The Regents]
D04. Angel Eyes (Extended Remix) [Roxy Music]

LP Three
E01. I Don’t Depend On You [The Men]
E02. Theme From 'The Warriors' [Barry De Vorzon]
E03. Willie And The Hand Jive (12" Version) [Rinder And Lewis]
E04. La Vie En Rose [Grace Jones]
F01. Schaufensterpuppen [Kraftwerk]
F02. Passing Strangers [Ultravox]
F03. Nightclubbing [Iggy Pop]
F04. No G.D.M. [Gina X Performance]

LP Four
G01. Only After Dark [Mick Ronson]
G02. Changeling [Simple Minds]
G03. Animation (Edit) [Skids]
G04. Life in Tokyo (Short Version) [Japan]
G05. Follow Me [Amanda Lear]
G06. To Cut A Long Story Short [Spandau Ballet]
H01. Bostich (Album Version) [Yello]
H02. Chase (From 'Midnight Express' Soundtrack) [Giorgio Moroder]
H03. Fade To Grey (1980 Dance Mix) [Visage]
H04. Perfect Day [Lou Reed]



The 4CD Box Set - with a Limited Edition print signed by Rusty Egan - can be ordered from Amazon...

The 4LP Box Set can be ordered from Amazon...

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Rob