Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & Post-Punk Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & Post-Punk CD

Three CD set. In the wake of punk's seismic and well recounted impact on the UK music scene, countless hitherto unavailable influences suddenly became available and de rigueur for the nation's would-be pop stars. Enabled by a new kind of record shop that began to appear across the country in Rough Trade's image, and encouraged by an absolute disregard for 'the rules', interested young people were quickly exposed to a broad spectrum of music from beyond the realm of three chord rock 'n roll. Nowhere was the outcome more notable than on the dancefloors of the day. 'Shake The Foundations' captures that after dark revolution, showcasing an era when disco, dub, electronica, funk and - whisper it - pop sensibilities - began to flood into the alternative, post-punk landscape. Running parallel with Ze Records and the no-wave movement in the US, clubs such as Marc Almond's Digital Disco and legendary nights at The Garage in Nottingham, The State in Liverpool, the Blue Note in Derby and across London at nights like the Batcave became fast moving, democratic melting pots. Across 3CDs, Bill Brewster selects highlights from his own extensive DJing career, each disc individually curated. As he himself puts it, "The important thing was not to impress James Brown, emulate the Fatback Band or wear Kraftwerk's game-face. The point was to have a go. 'Shake The Foundations' is not a comprehensive look at post-punk, so much as a shakily hand-drawn map of a particular area. It's what happened when the post-punk fallout collided with the dancefloor, and forty years later we're still feeling it's effects".

1. Guess Who? û A Certain Ratio 2. Coup - 23 Skidoo 3. 100 Evil Smokestacking Baby û Haircut 100 4. This Fear Of Gods û Simple Minds 5. Love 30 - The Stranglers 6. Born Every Minute û The Passage 7. Sarava - Blue Rondo A La Turk 8. Serbian Village û Medium Medium 9. Push Out The Boat û The Higsons 10. Post War Glamour Girls û John Cooper Clarke 11. Skin Deep û The Passions 12. Invaders Of The Heart 13. (Mix One) ûJah Wobble 14. Can You Move û Modern Romance 15. Slang Teacher û Wide Boy Awake 16. Hypnotised - C Cat Trance 17. Stretch - Maximum Joy 18. Lions - Tones On Tail 19. Trust Is A Must û Ian Dury 20. What Dance Is This? û Perfect Zebras 21. Faith ; Hope ; Charity û The Fun Boy Three 22. Dream Games - Shock 23. Rusha û Jesse Rae 24. DonÆt - Thomas Leer 25. Big Man Restless û Kissing The Pink 26. Blue For You - Paul Haig 27. Frequency 7 - Visage 28. Bang Em Right - Six Sed Red 29. Tingle - Quando Quango 30. CccanÆt You See û Vicious Pink 31. Move On û Fashi°n 32. Set Fighter - Wide Boy Awake 33. When Are We? (Now We Are) û Surface Mutants 34. Why Are We In Love û Furniture 35. Rob A Bank û The Pop Group 36. Get It Right û Animal Magic 37. Black Leather û Nightmares In Wax 38. Obedience - Normil Hawaiians 39. Asbestos Lead Asbestos û The 012 40. Keep Beat û Vee Vv 41. Living Wild û Mataya Clifford 42. So Many Ways û Electric Chairs 43. Dreams Are Better û London Underground 44. Arty-Fact û Group Therapy 45. We Are All Animals û The Diagram Brothers 46. Quit The Body û 47. The Chicken Granny 48. Bed Bound Saga û 49. Machine Gunn Hogg And Co 50. Hoggs Might Fly - Playgroup 51. Shake (The Foundations) û Glaxo Babies 52. Disco Purge û Family Fodder