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- Summary: The compilation of EBM, industrial, post-punk electronic music was collected together by producer/DJ Trevor Jackson.
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- Record Label: Strut
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, Alternative Dance, Industrial Dance
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Jul 23, 2012It makes for a stark--often chilling, often exhilarating--collection of music that spans the genre(s), from the well-known to the esoteric, the accessible to the impenetrable.
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Jul 23, 2012All of this is worthy of re-visitation or discovery.
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Jul 23, 2012One of Strut's best compilations to date.
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Jul 23, 2012This is the merde, and essential for anyone interested in the history of alternative dance and 80s electronic and industrial musics.
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Jul 23, 2012More so than any record I can recall, Metal Dance cuts the widest possible swath through the zeitgeist that was British post-punk. Antichrist, meet then your children's archivist.
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Jul 23, 2012As a listening experience, Metal Dance is necessarily inconsistent; as a cultural document, it is invaluable.
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Jul 23, 2012It's hard not to think that Jackson would have made a better case for this music if he'd put together one blinding disc of stomping giants and polyrhythmic oddities, rather than padding things out with so many wannabes and never-could-bes.