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1.	People In Control - When It's War 03:28	buy track
2.	Band Apart - Jaguar 04:14	buy track
3.	Zazou Wemba - Dansez le Malimba 04:58	buy track
4.	Volti - Corazón (Crisp Mix) 03:45	buy track
5.	Maurice Poto Doudongo - Tika 04:26	buy track
6.	Karl Biscuit - La Morte (Gilles Martin/Marc Hollander remix) 03:47	buy track
7.	Sussan Deyhim/Richard Horowitz - Got Away 04:37	buy track
8.	Nadjma - Koolish Baared 03:53	buy track
9.	Des Airs - Moi j'aime Berlioz 04:11	buy track
10.	The Honeymoon Killers - Décollage ('Prends l'avion' single remix) 03:19	buy track
11.	Zazou Bikaye - Angel (Jean-Marie Salaun remix) 05:30	buy track
12.	Volti - New York 03:09	buy track
13.	Maurice Poto Doudongo - Yelele 04:39	buy track
14.	Foreign Affair - Bonus b/EA/S/T (Mr Big Mouse remix) 04:48	buy track
15.	Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul - Luxury Zombie (demo) 02:32	buy track
16.	Zazou/Bikaye/CY1 - Dju Ya Feza (Simon Boswell remix) 06:15	buy track
17.	Sonoko - La poupée qui fait non (VK's disco remix) 03:19	buy track

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The second phase in our Crammed Archives reissue series focuses on hidden gems released by the label during the ‘80s, including lots of colourful, ahead-of-its-time music: electronic global pop, pre-techno/hip hop/dub-infused beats and much more.

This batch of digital reissues comprises this compilation, as well as EPs by six short-lived acts, by now obscure (yet cultish among connoisseurs) who, each for reasons of their own, only ever released one record (and sometimes even no more than one track):
People In Control (UK) - The ephemeral indie-dub collective linked to This Heat, Family Fodder & ON-U Sound

Maurice Poto Doudongo (Congo) - Soulful digital rumba funk gems from lost album by mysterious producer from Kinshasa - unlike anything that came out of Africa at the time.

Nadjma (Irak/CH/UK) - one of the first electropop projects sung in Arabic.

Des Airs (BE) - Angular, quirky, energetic francophone postpunk.

Volti (US/Mexico) - Beatbox electro Latino pop by a young Mexican/New Yorker duo which emerged from Downtown NY’s early ‘80s underground scene.

By Chance (BE): Moody & funky new wave by members of The Names & Jo Lemaire+Flouze.

As for the Rare Global Pop 1980s compilation, it contains -alongside tracks by the artists above- rare singles and remixes by:

Zazou Wemba (from the one-off collab by Hector Zazou and Papa Wemba);

The Honeymoon Killers (a remix made in Paris by the band with British engineer Andy Scott, of Château d’Hérouville fame;

Zazou Bikaye (a remix by Jean-Marie Salaun [Code, Fab Five Freddy] which only came out on Mark Kamins’ Pow Wow label;

Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul (edited from a demo);

Foreign Affair (a remix by Mr Big Mouse, aka Hollander & Kenis);

Zazou/Bikaye/CY1 (a remix which only came out in the UK at the time);

Sonoko (a mock-disco remix for the B-side of a 7” by the sweetly eccentric Japanese artist).

…plus a couple of tracks nicely rounding off a selection which narrates a kind of subterranean history of the label’s first decade, and throws some light on what was going on behind the most visible figures of the label at that time (Tuxedomoon, The Honeymoon Killers, Minimal Compact, John Lurie, Aksak Maboul, Colin Newman, etc).

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released December 2, 2022

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Crammed Electronic Archives Brussels, Belgium

We’re opening our vaults and reissuing over 250 rare tracks from the ‘80s and ‘90s. These digital reissues will be rolled out over the next couple of years, in several phases, each consisting of a compilation + several related EPs. Phase 1 is entitled “Rare SSR Electronica 1988-94”. Phase 2 is "Rare Global Pop 1980s", it contains music by 'lost' bands (from the UK, Congo, Iraq, Mexico & Belgium) ... more

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