Soft Cell announce ‘Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing’ expanded reissue: hear The Hacker’s “Memorabilia” 808 Remix

Soft Cell are reissuing their groundbreaking 1982 remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing on June 20. The reissue features the original album remastered and the original extended versions of “Torch” and “What!,” plus new remixes by Erasure, The Hacker, Jon Pleased Wimmin, Daniel Miller, The Grid and Hifi Sean. Preorder here.

Says the duo’s Dave Ball: “Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing, recorded at Mediasound in a very cold and snowy New York in February 1982, was a bit like a party in the studio.  It was created to encapsulate the atmosphere and influences of all the clubs we went to, the music we danced to, and the drugs we took during our nights out in New York — the most obvious being cocaine and our most recent discovery at the time, ecstasy.  We stripped or dubbed out most of the vocals and added more horns, and extensively used the analogue Serge modular system (that also played the pulsating sound heard on ‘Torch’, recorded around the same time).  It generated fantastically dirty, random chaos and synthetic scratch sounds which just added to the intensity of the album. It ultimately captured the zeitgeist – and I think still sounds valid today.”

You can check out The Hacker’s 808 Remix of “Memorabilia” and check out the full tracklist below. 

Soft Cell will be on tour this summer with Simple Minds and Modern English, hitting the NYC area on June 11 at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ and June 13 at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY. 

Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing reissue tracklisting:

Double LP

LP 1

Side A
1 Memorabilia (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
2 Where Did Our Love Go? (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
3 What! (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
Side B
4 A Man Could Get Lost (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
5 Chips On My Shoulder (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
6 Sex Dwarf (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered

LP 2

Side C
1. Torch (12″ Version) – Remastered
2. Insecure Me? (12″ Version) – Remastered
3. A Man Could Get Lost (Jon Pleased Wimmin Remix) – Previously promo only
Side D
4. Bedsitter (Erasure Remix) – Previously on Keychains box set only
5. What! (12″ Version) – Remastered
6. So (12″ Version) – Remastered

Double CD version

CD1

1 Memorabilia (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
2 Where Did Our Love Go? (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
3 What! (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
4 A Man Could Get Lost (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
5 Chips On My Shoulder (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
6 Sex Dwarf (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version) – Remastered
7 Tainted Dub (From Original 12″) – Remastered
8 Torch (12″ Version) – Remastered
9 Insecure Me? (12″ Version) – Remastered
10 What! (12″ Version) – Remastered
11 So (12″ Version) – Remastered
12 Torch (7″ Version) – Remastered
13 Insecure Me? (7″ Version) – Remastered
14 What! (7″ Version) – Remastered

CD2

1 Memorabilia (The Hacker 808 Remix) – Previously unreleased
2 A Man Could Get Lost (Jon Pleased Wimmin Remix) – Previously promo only
3 Torch (MHC 2001 Remix) – Previously unreleased version
4 Insecure Me? (Hifi Sean Remix) – Previously promo only
5 So (Hifi Sean Baltimore Basement Dub) – Previously promo only
6 Bedsitter (Manhattan Clique Mix) – Previously on Heat The Remixes only
7 Tainted Love (Paul Dakeyne Remix) – Previously unreleased version
8 Memorabilia (Wally Funk Remix) – Previously promo only
9 Sex Dwarf (The Grid Remix) – Previously on Heat The Remixes only
10 Bedsitter (Erasure Remix) – Previously on Keychains box set only
11 So (The Grid Remix) – First time ever on CD
12 Memorabilia (Daniel Miller Remix) – Previously on NSEC 6CD only