The people at Strut Records are prepping a double-disc retrospective of revered New York label Celluloid Records.
Change The Beat: The Celluloid Story 1980-1987 will drop on February 19, 2013.
The label was founded by Jean Karakos, who moved from France to New York in the late 70s discovering a world of underground dance music.
Karakos released tracks from Bill Laswell's post-punk outfit Material, as well as selections from the likes of Fab 5 Freddy, Time Zone (which featured Afrika Bambaataa), Ginger Baker and the Last Poets.
Here's the tracklisting:
Disc One
Shockabilly - Day Tripper
Massacre - Killing Time
Ferdinand - Tele, Apres La Meteo
Mathematiques Modernes - Disco Rough (Long Version)
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - Day Breaks, Night Heals
Snakefinger - Living In Vain
Winston Edwards & Blackbeard - Downing Street Rock
Lightnin' Rod - Sport Future 2000 feat. The Clash
Time Zone - Wildstyle (12-inch Vocal)
Deadline - Makossa Rock
Bobongo Stars - Koteja Toure
Kunda - Amadou
Disc Two
Nini Raviolette - Suis-Je Normale
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny
Street Sapho - Carmel (12-inch Mix)
Ginger Baker - Dust To Dust
Last Exit - Big Boss Man
Mandingo - Harima Manu
Dibango - Abele Dance (85 Remix)
Time Zone - World Destruction (Original 12-inch Mix)
Material, et al. - I'm the One (Dance Version)
Grandmixer D.ST - Home of Hip Hop
B Side with Bernard Fowler - Odeon (Dance Mix)
Fab 5 Freddy - Change the Beat (Male Version)
The Last Poets - Mean Machine Chant/Mean Machine
