Dust off those shoulder pads and don some eyeliner, because Simon has transformed into some kind of twisted New-Romantic robot and put together a brilliant mix of obscure 80s beat records. He’s been crate digging for a while to prepare and even peppered it with a few exclusive re-edits.

No wave, new wave, cold wave, minimal wave, synth wave, Mexican wave… call it what you like, but whatever it is, it’s ace. Cold, spooky synth lines, mechanical beats, vocals that shouldn’t work but somehow do… it’s all there. If you could hear how a homemade sci-fi film looks when it’s projected onto an industrial building, this would be it.

Tracklist

1. Benjamin Russell – One Love
2. Ceramic Hello – Theatre Matrix
3. Venetians – Sound on Sound
4. The Silencers – Possessed
5. Endgames – Ready or Not
6. Killing Joke – Victory
7. My Pierrot Dolls – Mirrors Don’t Lie
8. MC2 – Last Train to Bushey
9. Young Marble Giants – N.I.T.A
10. Episode I – Equal Balance
11. Solid Space – Contemplation
12. The Royal Family and the Poor – Discipline
13. Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened
14. Q-Feel – A New Science
15. Planning by Numbers – Kinetic
16. Kissing the Pink – Dream Dream
17. Endgames – We Feel Good (Future’s Looking Fine)
18. Planning by Numbers – Man and Woman