Artist	Song
Art of Noise	Instruments of Darkness
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel	Theme From Pigdom Come
This Mortal Coil	The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb
Tones on Tail	When You're Smiling
Severed Heads	Harold & Cindy Hospital
Art of Noise	Donna
Ultravox	Mr. X
Gary Numan	Airlane
Devo	Timing X
Jean-Michel Jarre	Zoolookologie
Colourbox	Edit the Dragon
Propaganda	Jewel
Art of Noise	A Time for Fear
Wire	Feed Me
Psychic TV	Black Moon
Adrian Belew	Creatures Dancing Like Cranes
Mick Karn	Passion in Moisture
Art of Noise	Eye of a Needle
Durutti Column	Arpeggiator 2
Japan	The Experience of Swimming
Tones on Tail	You, the Night and the Music

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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