{"id":18942,"date":"2026-03-13T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18942"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:30:02","slug":"cleopatra-records-single-of-the-week-ministry-dancing-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18942","title":{"rendered":"CLEOPATRA RECORDS Single of the Week: Ministry &#8220;Dancing Alone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ministry.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18943\" style=\"width:508px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ministry.png 466w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ministry-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hot on the heels of Squirrely Years, last year\u2019s deep dive into the early days of industrial superstars Ministry, Al Jourgensen\u2019s youthful repertoire resurfaces once more with a supercharged remaster of \u201cDancing Alone,\u201d a song that originally appeared in the band\u2019s live set in the aftermath of their 1982 debut album With Sympathy. However, the song pointed towards the dancier, heavier sound Al &amp; Co. developed on the Wax Trax label.<br><br>A straightforward live version, recorded in Chicago 1982, appears on Ministry\u2019s 2015 Trax! box set of rarities and unreleased material, and again on the Chicago\/Detroit 1982 compilation. Here, however, it has been brought solidly into the band\u2019s future, a wild 177bpm electro stomp remixed by Die Krupps mastermind Jurgen Engler. In other words, the future starts here, even as the accompanying kaleidoscopic video transports you back to the early 80s club scene from which Ministry arose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ctrk.klclick.com\/l\/01KKM5BB53DSW6VW5VXGS8Q433_6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SINGLE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ctrk.klclick.com\/l\/01KKM5BB53DSW6VW5VXGS8Q433_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Ministry - Dancing Alone (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L7GJjh2dYgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of Squirrely Years, last year\u2019s deep dive into the early days of industrial superstars Ministry, Al Jourgensen\u2019s youthful repertoire resurfaces once more with a supercharged remaster of \u201cDancing Alone,\u201d a song that originally appeared in the band\u2019s live set in the aftermath of their 1982 debut album With Sympathy. However, the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18942\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CLEOPATRA RECORDS Single of the Week: Ministry &#8220;Dancing Alone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18944,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18942\/revisions\/18944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}