Artist	Song	Buy
Negativland	Methods of Torture
Midnight Oil	Scream in Blue
Godley & Creme	History Mix Vol. 1
Front 242	W.Y.H.I.W.Y.G.
Negativland	Stress in Marriage
Art of Noise	The Army Now
Yello	Desert Inn
Cabaret Voltaire	Golden Halos
Nina Hagen	Auf'M Friedhof
Sad Lovers & Giants	Interlude
KMFDM	King Kong Dub Rubber Mix
Danielle Dax	House-Cat
Ministry	Where You At Now?
Ministry	Crash and Burn
Ministry	Twitch
Negativland	The Way of It
Yello	Alhambra
Love & Rockets	God and Mr. Smith
Stewart Copeland	Music Box
Negativland	Yellow, Black & Rectangular
Art of Noise	Chameleon's Dish
Mark Mothersbaugh	XP-31

Comment:

This is my tribute to the instrumental music of the 1980s -- the kind of stuff that came out in the wake of all the new, synthetic production techniques being used by new wave bands. This is the kind of music that most excited me when I was in high school. As much as I appreciated bands who wrote straightforward songs, I was more impressed with creative arrangements, strange timbres, atypical percussion, and layered noise. There's a little bit of all of those things represented on these 4 volumes, which include some of my favorite oddities from the era -- with a special emphasis on The Art of Noise, who pioneered the cause of creative instrumental pop music, and proved that just because something is "industrial" doesn't mean it can't also be fun to listen to.

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