Psyche - "Te Saint Became A Lush"
Skinny Puppy - "Deadlines" (400 Blows remix)
Propaganda - "(The Echo Of) Frozen Faces"
Visage - "Der Amboss" (instrumental)
Rusty Egan - "The Twilight Zone" (Trevor Jackson edit)
Rene Bandaly Family - "Tanki Tanki" (Rabih Beaini edit)
Experimental Products - "Work That Beat"
Crash Course In Science - "Jump Over Barrels"
Liaisons Dangereuses - "Etre Assis Ou Danset"
Esplendor Geometrico - "Necrosis En La Poya"
Ministry - "Over The Shoulder" (12" version)
Test Dept - "The Unaccepatable Face Of Freedom: Face 3"
Mile High Club - "Walking Backwards"
Front 242 - "Body 2 Body (2Trax)"
Visa Versa - "Riot Squad"
Chris & Cosey - "Driving Computer"
Doris Norton - "Personal Computer"
Plus Instruments - "Vom Ertrunkenen Madchen"
Conrad Schnitzler - "Das Tier"
Arthur Brown & Craig Leon - "The Conversation"
Haruomi Hosono - "Platonic"
Godley & Creme - "Babies"
Review: Strut and Trevor Jackson do the right thing and collude on a second edition of Metal Dance, with a veritable feast of 80's industrial and primitive electronics to sink into. Some 27 tracks deep, Metal Dance 2 widens the remit of the first compilation by a year, collating material from the period 1979 to 1988 and features artists and bands that should be familiar to your eyes in Skinny Puppy, Chris & Cosey, Crash Course In Science and Liaisons Dangereuses along with many lesser known acts. Jackson himself contributes an edit of iconic Blitz DJ Rusty Egan whilst Morphine Records boss Rabih Beaini highlights Lebanon's history with primitive electronics on an edit of Rene Bandaly Family's eighties curio "Tanki Tanki". Impressively, the compilation also features a track by CHBB, a band whose members went on to form DAF and Liaisons Dangereuses and whose small discography was limited to four rare cassettes.
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