V/A The Blank Generation: Blank Tapes NYC 1975-1985

• Debby Blackwell: "Once You Got Me Going"
• Charanga 76: "Music Trance"
• Milton Hamilton: "Crystalized"
• Sun Ra: "Where Pathways Meet"
• The Necessaries: "State of Art"
• Lydia Lunch: "A Cruise to the Moon"
• James Blood Ulmer: "Jazz Is the Teacher, Funk Is the Preacher"
• Bumblebee Unlimited: "I Got a Big Bee"
• Mikki: "Itching for Love" (M+M mix)
• Fonda Rae: "Over Like a Fat Rat"
• Gladys Knight: "It's a Better Than Good Time" (Walter Gibbons mix)
• Lola: "Wax the Van" (Jon's Dub)
• Aural Exciters: "Emile (Nite Rate)"

Bob Blank, a seminal record producer of New York's late 70s underground (which included punk, disco, no wave, and new wave), seemingly missed out on all the renewed attention American post-punks received in the wake of Interpol and the Liars. With ties to everyone from Lydia Lunch to Arthur Russell top Gladys Knight, Blank's canon was long overdue for revisiting. Blank Generation features several Blank-produced tracks, including landmark tracks of disco ("To Be With You"), no wave ("A Cruise To The Moon"), and all the other misfit movements brewing in downtown Manhattan in the late 70s. 

Abstract by Ethan Stanislawski