MEMORABILIA (GERMAN GREEN VINYL)

TRACKLIST A1  Daniel Miller 2023 Remix A2  Daniel Miller 2023 Remix Instrumental B1  The Hacker 2023 Remix B2  Wally Funk 2023 Remix INFO The birth point of ecstasy in British music is usually credited to acid house and the second summer of love: a cemented vision of kids sweating and vibrating in clubs, fields and warehouses in 1988, united by universal empathy and mind-popping sounds. However, in 1981, a couple of young men from Leeds went to New York, discovered the drug in its infancy, fused its™ gritty synth pop to acid house™s squelchy 303 groove and recorded an album: Soft Cell™s Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. The rest, as they say, is history. Shortly before that Soft Cell™s debut single Memorabilia was born. Originally recorded a decade before the explosion of acid house and rooted in predominantly black NYC, Chicago and Detroit gay clubs, Memorabilia is a seminal early prelude to rave culture. Merging a strutting disco bass line with a futuristic proto acid-techno beat, Marc Almond has past described Memorabilia as šthe first acid house techno record ever›. Dave Ball remembers: šMemorabilia got to about number 99 in the charts, but the clubs picked up on it. In NME or Sounds they had a chart for the Danceteria in New York, and we were in it. Our label Phonogram saw this and thought: ˜why is this weird little duo from Leeds that no one™s heard of suddenly getting played in one of the hippest clubs in New York?™ So I think they thought: ˜we™ll give them another chance™.› Berlin™s very own upcomers Wally Funk round off the remix package, upping the original tempo slightly, while combining elements the of original production with the later Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing version to create a new hybrid, best played extremely loud!