Various Artists – Burn It Up - The Rise of British Dance Music 1986-1991 4CD

Various Artists – Burn It Up - The Rise of British Dance Music 1986-1991

• 4CD TRIP THROUGH THE UK’s DANCE MUSIC EXPLOSION OF THE LATE 1980s.

• FEATURING THE KLF, S-EXPRESS, COLDCUT, BOMB THE BASS, ORBITAL, HUMANOID, ANNE CLARKE, 808 STATE, ADAMSKI, ELECTRIBE 101, NIGHTMARES ON WAX, BABY FORD, THE MOODY BOYS, RICK & LISA AND MANY MORE.

• COMPILED WITH, AND FEATURING SLEEVENOTES BY, BILL BREWSTER (LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE).

• INCLUDES MANY TRACKS’ FIRST EVER APPEARANCE ON CD.

During the latter half of the 1980s, the burgeoning electro, house and techno scenes burst into the mainstream across Europe, turning countless bedroom beat makers into pop stars overnight and revolutionising the musical landscape. Building on synth pop’s sound palette and industrial dance music’s energy, and fuelled by enthusiastic independent labels, cash-only entrepreneurs and media hype around warehouse raves, the once underground sound of four to the floor rhythms, squelchy TB-303 lines and light-fingered samples quickly became the commercial mainstream.

‘Burn It Up’ captures a snapshot of that time and place, via fifty hand-picked floor- fillers. From #1 singles, household names and mainstays of suburban nightclubs to lesser- known curios and hip leftfield remixes, this is a story of renegade spirit, adventurous artists and a record buying public eager to embrace music unimaginable only a short while ago. Featuring Stakker’s classic ‘Humanoid’, The KLF’s legendary ‘What Time Is Love’, D-Mob’s Billboard Dance Music Chart #1 ‘We Call It Acieeed’, Orbital’s ‘Chime’ masterpiece, Adamski’s seminal ‘N-R-G’, contributions from members of Fine Young Cannibals, Soft Cell, ABC and many more familiar favourites, all surfing the sweet spot where credible and commercial meet, this is first generation joyous, hands in the air music.

Produced by the team who brought you our ‘Close To The Noise Floor’ and ‘Musik Music Musique’ series, this is a must-have time capsule charting a genuine musical and cultural revolution.

Tracklist:
DISC ONE
1  Coldcut feat. Floormaster Squeeze - Beats + Pieces (Mo Bass Remix)
2  Mel & Kim - System (House Mix)
3  Midnight Sunrise With Nellie "Mixmaster" Rush feat. Jackie Rawes - On The House (Chicago Mix)
4  John Rocca - I Want It To Be Real (Farley's Hot House Piano Mix)
5  Rick & Lisa - When You Gonna (Home Boy Mix)
6  Krush - House Arrest (The Beat Is The Law)
7  T-Coy - Cariño
8  The Cookie Crew - Females (Get On Up) (Pile Up)
9  Judge Dread - Jerk Your Body (Edit)
10  Simon Harris - Bass (How Low Can You Go) (Bomb The House Mix)
11  M.E.S.H. (Jack The Tab) - Meet Every Situation Head On
12  The Beatmasters feat. The Cookie Crew - Rok Da House
13  Us - Born In The North
 
DISC TWO
1  Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis (Extended Dis)
2  The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance 1)
3  Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
4  S-Express - Theme From S-Express
5  Coldcut feat. Yazz & The Plastic Population - Doctorin' The House
6  Baby Ford - Oochy Koochy (F.U. Baby Yeh Yeh)
7  D-Mob feat. Gary Haisman - We Call It Acieeed (The Radio Edit)
8  The Wee Papa Girl Rappers feat. 2 Men And A Drum Machine - Heat It Up (Acid House Mix)
9  The Beatmasters feat. P P Arnold - Burn It Up (7" Version)
10  The Moody Boys - Acid Rappin
11  Samantha Fox - Love House (The Black Pyramid Mix)
12  Paul Rutherford - Get Real (Happy House Mix)
 
DISC THREE
1  Electribe 101 - Talking With Myself
2 Anne Clarke - Our Darkness (Remix)
3  2 Men, A Drum Machine & A Trumpet - Tired Of Getting Pushed Around (The Mayhem Rhythm Mix)
4  Julian Jonah - Jealousy And Lies
5  Chapter And The Verse - All This And Heaven Too (Club Mix)
6  Shades Of Rhythm - Just Feel It
7  S-Express - Special & Golden (Parts I and II)
8  Monie Love - Grandpa's Party (Love II Love Remix)
9  Double Trouble & Rebel MC - Street Tuff (Longsy D'Mix)
10  Richie Rich - Salsa House
11  The Beloved - The Sun Rising
12  Dina Carroll - Me Sienta Sola (We Are One) (Funky Z-Bar Mix)
 
DISC FOUR
1  808 State - Pacific-202
2 Adamski - N-R-G
3  Nightmares On Wax - Let It Roll
4  NAD - Distant Drums
5  Orbital - Chime (Edit)
6  Professor Supercool - If You Love Somebody (12” Mix)
7  N-Joi - Techno Gangsters
8  Pop Will Eat Itself - Touched By The Hand Of Cicciolina (The Renegade Soundwave Mix (Smoothneck))
9  Ubik - Techno Prisoners
10  Cabaret Voltaire - Easy Life
11  The Cure - Lullaby (Extended Remix)
12  Urban Hype - Teknologi (R.J. Flip Mix)
13  Circuit - Shelter Me (Helter Skelter Mix)

Label: Cherry Red
Released: 2025