City of Night / Cite Phoshore 2011 is the 2nd in a series of five CDEP Single ReMake ReMaster ReMixes from the Classic 1982 album Cold War Night Life to be issued this year 2011 by reformed and renewed internationally recognized pioneers of 80’s synth-pop, Rational Youth.
This collection of DJ House & Trance ReMixes in English and French was orchestrated by our friends at Montreal’s DeepSound Music and features radio & extended mixes by Max Julien, the DeepSound main man and remixes from UK’s re:hab, by Brazil’s Marco Zappala, South Africa’s DJ Michael Angello and Montreal duo Cito & E.P. Bergen. Also on this collection is the original Pat Deserio 1982 extended dance mix.
Rational Youth is a Canadian New Wave band, originally formed in 1981 in Montreal, Quebec, by synthesizer wizards Tracy Howe, former singer and drummer for Montreal punk band "The Normals", and Bill Vorn, both of whom idolized the German synthpop pioneers Kraftwerk.
Among the band's notable singles were "City of Night", "Saturdays in Silesia" and "Dancing on the Berlin Wall," from their debut album, Cold War Night Life (1982); and "No More and No Less" from Heredity (1985).
In 1999, Rational Youth, with a new lineup of original frontman Howe and new keyboard players Jean-Claude Cutz and Dave Rout, released its first album after fourteen years, To the Goddess Electricity.
Rational Youth toured throughout Scandinavia over the next two years, playing its final concert on November 3, 2001, at the Tinitus Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.
Original members Tracy Howe and Bill Vorn came together again in 2009, recording a new version of their 1982 hit "Dancing On The Berlin Wall" in honour of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall.
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