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".

Tracklist:

Guess Who? - A Certain Ratio
Coup - 23 Skidoo
100 Evil Smokestacking Baby - Haircut 100
This Fear Of Gods - Simple Minds
Love 30 - The Stranglers
Born Every Minute - The Passage
Sarava - Blue Rondo A La Turk
Serbian Village - Medium Medium
Push Out The Boat - The Higsons
Post War Glamour Girls - John Cooper Clarke
Skin Deep - The Passions
Invaders Of The Heart
(Mix One) -Jah Wobble
Can You Move - Modern Romance
Slang Teacher - Wide Boy Awake
Hypnotised - C Cat Trance
Stretch - Maximum Joy
Lions - Tones On Tail
Trust Is A Must - Ian Dury
What Dance Is This? - Perfect Zebras
Faith ; Hope ; Charity - The Fun Boy Three
Dream Games - Shock
Rusha - Jesse Rae
Don't - Thomas Leer
Big Man Restless - Kissing The Pink
Blue For You - Paul Haig
Frequency 7 - Visage
Bang Em Right - Six Sed Red
Tingle - Quando Quango
Cccan't You See - Vicious Pink
Move On - Fashion
Set Fighter - Wide Boy Awake
When Are We? (Now We Are) - Surface Mutants
Why Are We In Love - Furniture
Rob A Bank - The Pop Group
Get It Right - Animal Magic
Black Leather - Nightmares In Wax
Obedience - Normil Hawaiians
Asbestos Lead Asbestos - The 012
Keep Beat - Vee Vv
Living Wild - Mataya Clifford
So Many Ways - Electric Chairs
Dreams Are Better - London Underground
Arty-Fact - Group Therapy
We Are All Animals - The Diagram Brothers
Quit The Body -
The Chicken Granny
Bed Bound Saga -
Machine Gunn Hogg And Co
Hoggs Might Fly - Playgroup
Shake (The Foundations) - Glaxo Babies
Disco Purge - Family Fodder

UPC: 5013929110700
Label: Cherry Red
Release Date: 4.2.21
Format: CD

Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & Post-Punk - Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984 / Various (CD)