SOFT CELL NON STOP ECSTATIC DANCING PINK & BLUE VINYL 2LP SEALED LIMITED EDITION

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SOFT CELL

“NON STOP ECSTATIC DANCING”

UK LIMITED EDITION

PINK & BLUE VINYL 2LP

EXPANDED EDITION

WITH BONUS TRACKS

& ADRIAN THRILLS ESSAY

BRAND NEW & SEALED

NOTE: The picture sleeve is brand new and sealed but has a small bump to the top of the spine, a crease to the back top left & the beginnings of seam splits (1.5cm & 3cm) in the top edge, as shown in the close-up photos (front and back views of each shown).

Synth pop pioneers Soft Cell will reissue their classic remix album ‘Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing’ on the 20th June 2025 via Universal Music. The 1982 original, inspiring generations of clubbers, DJs and remixers the world over, is fully remastered and bolstered by the inclusion of extended versions of its two hit singles, the smouldering melodrama of ‘Torch’, which famously just missed becoming Soft Cell’s second Number One hit by being kept off the top spot by Adam Ant, plus the top three hit ‘What!’, a cover of Judy Street’s 1965 Northern Soul heartache anthem. All is brought bang up to date with a second disc of remixes including Erasure, The Hacker, Jon Pleased Wimmin, Daniel Miller and Hi-Fi Sean, alongside highlights from 2007’s long-deleted ‘Heat – The Remixes’.

Soft Cell, aka singer, frontman and LGBTQ icon Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, made their name in the clubs of Leeds, London, New York and Berlin before pop stardom hit with their groundbreaking, subversive performance of ‘Tainted Love’ on Top of the Pops in 1981. A rework of key moments from the electronic duo’s seminal debut album ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’, alongside a couple of unreleased tracks, ‘Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing’ is hailed as one of the very first remix albums, and reached number 6 in the UK album charts in June 1982. It was closely followed by The Human League – temporarily renamed as The League Unlimited Orchestra – releasing their own extended rework of 1981’s electro pop classic ‘Dare’ in ‘Love and Dancing’.

Dave Ball comments: ‘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.  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, which captured the zeitgeist at the time, and I think still sounds valid today’.

‘Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing’ features six dancefloor-slaying tracks, including, in addition to aforementioned singles, an extended version of ‘Memorabilia’ that transformed the original into a 3am proto-house banger. The reissued ‘Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing’ channels the neon glamour and grit of Danceteria, Batcave, The Camden Palace and Studio 54 and still sounds fresh, menacing and ready to throw shapes in 2025.

TRACKLIST:

A1   Memorabilia

A2   Where Did Our Love Go

A3   What!

B1   A Man Could Get Lost

B2   Chips On My Shoulder

B3   Sex Dwarf

C1   Torch (12" Version)

C2   Insecure Me? (12" Version)

C3   A Man Could Get Lost (Jon Pleased Wimmin Remix)

D1   Bedsitter (Erasure Remix)

D2   What! (12" Version)

D3   ...So (12" Version)

MERCURY / UNIVERSAL MUSIC RECORDINGS

CATALOGUE NO: 00602475653035 / 7565303

2025

CONDITION:

RECORDS: SEALED, MINT & UNPLAYED

PICTURE SLEEVE: SEALED, EXCELLENT, brand new and sealed but has a small bump to the top of the spine, a crease to the back top left & the beginnings of seam splits (1.5cm & 3cm) in the top edge, as shown in the close-up photos (front and back views of each shown).

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