Artist	Song
Art of Noise	Memento
Barry Adamson	The Track With No Name
Test Dept.	Faces of Freedom 2
Cabaret Voltaire	Product Patrol
Malcolm McClaren	Buffalo Gals
The Bubblemen	Bubblemen Rap
Depeche Mode	Big Muff
Kraftwerk	Pocket Calculator
Negativland	Announcement
Negativland	Quiet Please
Ministry	Just Like You
Yello	Crash Dance
Art of Noise	Battle / Beat Box
Propaganda	Dr. Mabuse (long version)
Art of Noise	Who's Afraid?
Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman	The Conqueror
Art of Noise	Realisation
Talking Heads	Seen and Not Seen
Black Iron Prison	Seven Theses
ABC	Judy's Jewels
Meat Puppets	Maiden's Milk

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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