Various Artists - New Wave Club Class-X5

Welcome to Wednesday and another episode of the ever continuing series of Club Class compilations. I’m not gonna lie, they’re becoming more of a chore to post and waffle about then I’d have expected, but don’t let that deter you. My inner NME hack is going to talk to you about the weather outside my office windows, which at the time of writing this is SUNNY! My disposition is also going to be positive and therefore I’ll introduce you to the two bands that have not featured on these pages before.
Taking their name from a newspaper quote about the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen," They Must Be Russians were an irreverent post-punk band from Sheffield, England. (Another They Must Be Russians hailed from London.) The group initially consisted of Russ Russian (vocals and guitar), Paul Russian (vocals and guitar), Carl (bass), and Brendan (effects). With production help from their local friends in Cabaret Voltaire, They debuted with the Nellie the Elephant EP in mid-1979. Another single, Don't Try to Cure Yourself, was released on Fresh over a year later. A self-titled full-length was released by First Floor in 1983, and the LP Groundless Accusations was issued through Native in 1985.
The Unknown Cases were two German Electronic musicians, Helmut Zerlett and Stefan Krachten, from Cologne, Germany, who released several singles between the 80's and early 00's. The group's debut single, Masimbabele, was released in 1983 and involved collaboration with Reebop Kwaku Baah, a Ghanaian musician, who had worked with Traffic and Can. The band is known primarily for the club hit "Masimbabele," which charted at #26 in John Peel's Festive Fifty in 1984. Helmut Zerlett, of "Dunkelziffer" fame, to most of the German people presumably best known from the "Harald Schmidt Show" on German private TV, created a dancefloor-'ethno'-smash-hit, that is still playable today! If you like it supersecretcosmic-stylee, adjust the pitch level down to "-8"...
 

Ripped to MP3 @ 320kbps because it’s easier

1 Billy Idol - White Wedding
2 A Flock of Seagulls - (It's Not Me) Talking
3 Xymox - A Day
4 Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (Sschizo Mix)
5 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity (Martin Hannett Mix)
6 The Danse Society - 2000 Light Years From Home
7 Simple Minds - Premonition
8 Siglo XX - Art of War
9 The Cassandra Complex - Moscow Idaho
10 They Must Be Russians - Don't Try to Cure Yourself
11 Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go
12 Nina Hagen Band - African Reggae
13 The Ruts - Jah War
14 The Unknown Cases - Masimba Bele

Oh I know I haven’t posted any Bow Wow Wow, but if you don’t already have a passing familiarity with them, you really shouldn’t be reading this blog.