Next Wave Acid Punx TROIS Chapter 2 via Eskimo Recordings

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Starting in 2021 the critically acclaimed Next Wave Acid Punx series has seen Luca Venezia, aka Curses, celebrate the music that has shaped both his life and career. Across the first two compilations, Luca took us from the industrial and post-punk sounds of the late 70s. He guided us through the emergence of EBM, new beat, and freestyle in the 1980s. He then brought us to the music he both makes and plays himself in clubs today.

From Brooklyn Warehouses to Berlin Club Culture

Bringing the series to a close, Next Wave Acid Punx TROIS sees the Berlin-based musician and DJ return full circle. This time, he explores the sounds that first initiated him into Brooklyn’s rave scene. This music, in some way, continues to embody its eclectic spirit today.



Spread across three 2LPs and 3CDs Next Wave Acid Punx TROIS captures a moment whose influence can still be heard reverberating around clubland today. The nascent rave scene was obliterating boundaries. This was a moment where the darker, harder industrial electronic sounds of the mid 1980s crashed headfirst into the ecstatic wave washing over clubland. This created thrilling juxtapositions.

Whether in the clubs and warehouses of New York, London, Frankfurt, Valencia and beyond, electronic music would never be the same again as countless new genres we take for granted today were born from the chaos and energy that had been unleashed.



46 Tracks Mapping the Evolution of Rave’s Darker Edge

Next Wave Acid Punx TROIS features 46 hard-to-find, new and exclusive tracks. It documents that fertile period. Despite rumours to the contrary, it shows that early anarchic spirit can still be found today.

From the Detroit Techno of Model 500 to Nitzer Ebb’s EBM and the proto-Trance of Age of Love and onto brand new tracks from some of today’s best producers such as Zaatar, Italo Deviance and Leona Jacewska, this compilation closes out a series that has to date revelled in exploring the darker corners of clubland in uplifting style.