Smooth Cell are reissuing their remix album Non-Cease Ecstatic Dancing. First launched in 1982, the brand new double-CD model options the unique album remastered and the unique prolonged variations of “Torch” and “What!” (a canopy of Judy Road’s 1968 Northern Soul single). The second disc consists of new remixes by Erasure, The Hacker, Jon Happy Wimmin, Daniel Miller, The Grid, and Hifi Sean, in addition to highlights from 2007’s beforehand deleted Warmth – The Remixes.
Non-Cease Ecstatic Dancing, identified for being extra dance-focused than the duo’s synth-pop debut album Non-Cease Erotic Cabaret, has impressed generations of club-goers, DJs, and remixers.
Smooth Cell fashioned in Leeds, England in 1978 with frontman and LGBTQ icon Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball. The duo made waves within the membership scene earlier than their pop breakthrough in 1981 with their efficiency of “Tainted Love.”
“Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing, recorded at Mediasound in a very cold and snowy New York in February 1982, was a bit like a party in the studio. It was created to encapsulate the atmosphere and influences of all the clubs we went to, the music we danced to, and the drugs we took during our nights out in New York — the most obvious being cocaine and our most recent discovery at the time, ecstasy,” Ball says of the dance remix album. “We stripped or dubbed out most of the vocals and added more horns, and extensively used the analogue Serge modular system (that also played the pulsating sound heard on ‘Torch’, recorded around the same time). It generated fantastically dirty, random chaos and synthetic scratch sounds, which just added to the intensity of the album. It ultimately captured the zeitgeist – and I think still sounds valid today.”
Since their reunion in 2018, Smooth Cell have remained as related as ever. They celebrated the fortieth anniversary of Non Cease Erotic Cabaret with a boxset and tour in 2021. The next 12 months, they launched their fifth studio album Happiness Not Included, that includes the “Purple Zone” collaboration with fellow synth-pop pioneers Pet Store Boys. Most just lately, Smooth Cell toured Australia for the primary time ever and can head over to america to tour in Could and June with Easy Minds.
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