• Track Listing

Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs compiled these tracks from the turn of the ’80s, when synths took over British pop with sounds both strange and sweet. You get 20 electronic delights on CD, or 21 on double 180-gram vinyl: "Real to Real" Simple Minds, "Youth" Soft Cell, "WXJL Tonight" Human League, "Sealand" Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, "Europe After the Rain" John Foxx, "Tidal Flow" Illustration, "Direct Lines" Electronic Circus, "Unless" Pale Fountains, "Tiny Children" Teardrop Explodes and more by big names and obscure artists alike! Ace.