Soft Cell’s 1982 remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing is being reissued.
Set for release in June, the updated edition of the record features newly remastered versions of all its tracks, as well as extended takes on its two hit singles: ‘Torch’ and ‘What!’ There is also an additional disc of remixes by other artists, including Erasure, Daniel Miller and The Hacker.
In a statement, Soft Cell’s Dave Ball said: “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.”
Listen to The Hacker’s remix of Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing cut ‘Memorabilia’ below.
Universal Music will release Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing on June 20, 2025.
