Fourth volume of this crucial compilation series, presenting 12 classics on the cusp of 'New Wave to New Beat' from 1984. There's some stone cold aces in here, not least Strafe's crackish 'Set It Off' and Anne Clarke's seminal 'Our Darkness', but also Section 25's Factory classic 'Looking From A Hilltop' and Cabaret Voltaire's 'Sensoria' but, as ever with this series, there's always some total revelations for those who missed out first time around. Among them you'll find Severed Heads 1st chart hit 'Dead Eyes Opened', the eroticised proto-Techno of former Yello member, Carlos Peron, and the industrial alley funk of Empty Quarter's 'Incompressible Megalosaurians'. Recommended!
A1 Flowerpot Men, The - Jo's So Mean To Josephine 5:41
A2 Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria 6:18
A3 Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop 8:12
B1 Strafe - Set It Off 9:46
B2 Anne Clark - Our Darkness 5:21
B3 Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened 6:34
C1 Carlos Perón* - ET [Her Head Is Brakin Intu Foor] 4:14
C2 Dub Syndicate - The Show Is Coming 4:55
C3 Jesse Saunders - On And On 7:53
D1 Front 242 - Commando Mix 9:28
D2 Empty Quarter, The* - Incompressible Megalosaurians 2:31
D3 Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope 5:15
