Strictly Ltd Edition Double Vinyl - Gatefold Sleeve – Full-Colour

Deluxe Package. With one-off digital download card.

All original artwork by Matt Sewell, inners and extensive liner-notes by Jon Savage 

Includes tracks by: 808 State/ the Stone Roses/Shack/Pet Shop Boys/Primal Scream/Sabres of Paradise/Joi / Northside/ DHS/Sly & Lovechild/ Deee-Lite..

This is the first time that The Pet Shop Boys/Stone Roses/St Etienne tracks have ever been committed to vinyl. The Primal Scream / 808 State tracks have not been available on wax for over 20 years..

On the simplest level: new drugs + new technology > dance music

 = a new pop culture.  (Jon Savage)

Following both last year’s Matt Sewell curated comp “A Crushing Glow” (a Lauren Laverne 6 Music Album of the Week) & 2012’s very highly regarded “Fame”, a definitive UK/US Post-Punk release. Jon Savage and CTR decided to tackle a seemingly seriously under-documented musical era, the “Baggy” era of the late Eighties/early Nineties. 

We are very proud to present a musical return-trip to these fondly remembered years spanning 1988-93. Tracks are selected and curated by renowned cultural commentator, writer and film-maker Jon Savage. Amongst many highly revered projects Jon has produced the definitive work on Punk Rock in “England's Dreaming” and the documentary & book “Teenage”. Jon has also worked on the recently published “So This is Permanence: The Lyrics Of Ian Curtis”, which he co-edited with Deborah Curtis.

Jon posits this period as a return to Psychedelia. Its second phase, where Guitars met Acid-House to create a whole new noise..

A thrilling musical time, as Jon explains within his extensive sleeve-notes:

“Many of the records come from that first surge, alongside key tracks by 808 State, the Stone Roses & Pet Shop Boys as well as left-field offerings by Joi and Dimensional Holofonic Sound - and three tracks with the involvement of the UK's presiding genius from this period, Andrew Weatherall.”

He suggests: 

“This is not intended as a definitive survey, more a snapshot of those times”.

It was a period where clothes, drugs, music and key events including the Stone Roses at Spike Island created a major cultural confluence. From Trip & Shoom in London to Manchester Hacienda and beyond..  As Jon suggests the era was vital as it heralded:

“The start of the electronic music boom that would flourish during the Nineties “

Jon concludes “These fourteen songs are all part of that mood in one way or another, in their euphoric sound, experimental attitude, and mixing of dance with rock and back again. It was a wonderful time: the second age of Psychedelia”.

The release features dazzling original artwork and design by celebrated artist and illustrator Matt Sewell, along with unseen pictures and memorabilia from the era.

Tracklisting:

S1

Shack - I Know You Well (Extended 12” Mix) 5” 35

The High – Box Set Go    3” 54

Primal Scream - Slip inside This House    5”17

Northside-Take 5 (12” Mix) 4”10 

S2

PSB - The Sound of the Atom Splitting   5”13  

Deee-Lite-What is Love? (Holographic Goatee Mix) 4”08

Electronic-Get the Message (DNA Groove Mix)    5”'27

Sly & Lovechild – The World According To Sly & Lovechild (Soul of Europe Mix) 8”20 

S3

Joi-A Desert Storm 6” 28  

808 State - Let Yourself Go (D50 Mix) 4” 52 

DHS- Number 9 Bad Acid   4”28 

St Etienne Featuring Q-Tee - Filthy   5” 32 

S4

The Stone Roses - Full Fathom Five (CD Version)   3”18

Sabres of Paradise-Clock Factory   14” 44

“And then the world turned dayglo.” (Jon Savage)

This is a vinyl only strictly limited edition release with no repress.

There will be no CD or digital version of the album.