Various Artists: New York Noise - Dance Music From The New York Underground 1977-1982 (CD)

Soul Jazz Records’ new edition of their classic New York Noise: Dance Music From The New York Underground 1977–1982, freshly remastered and loud.

This new 2026 edition features classic New York post-punk, punk funk, synth wave and no wave tracks from Arthur Russell / Dinosaur L, James White and the Contortions, The Theoretical Girls, Mars, Konk, Material, Bush Tetras, and Lizzy Mercier Descloux, alongside rare tracks by the likes of Alan Vega (Suicide), Chain Gang, and Implog.

New York Noise sums up the point in time and space where dance music and punk rock first met, as New York’s no wave artists such as Glenn Branca and James White, alongside New York dance music’s experimental pioneers such as Arthur Russell (Dinosaur L), Bill Laswell (Material), and Konk, created new musical art forms out of this union.

1. Liquid Liquid – Optimo
2. Konk – Baby Dee
3. The Dance – Do Dada
4. Material – Reduction
5. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Wawa
6. DNA – 5:30
7. Rammellzee vs. K-Rob – Beat Bop
8. The Contortions – Contort Yourself
9. Glenn Branca – Lesson No.1 for Electric Guitar
10. The Bloods – Button-Up
11. Dinosaur L – Clean On Your Bean #1
12. Theoretical Girls – You Got Me
13. Bush Tetras – Can't Be Funky
14. Mars – Helen Fordsdale
15. ESG – You Make No Sense
16. Defunkt – Defunkt