As the post-punk dust began to settle, a particular strand of artist began applying a knowingly distant, colder aesthetic to their work. While much of the scene began to be dominated by bigger budget, commercially minded former punk and new wave acts, a darker undercurrent did survive, often more interesting, more dangerous and sexier than anything that could be heard on Top Of The Pops at the time. The first generation of the darkwave movement consisted of bands that were equally influenced by the fractured drama of Depeche Mode, Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Cure as they were by the art damaged experimentation of Cabaret Voltaire, Wire and Throbbing Gristle, always rich in Gothic spirt, societal displacement, urban isolation and sexual energy. This 4CD set explores the 1980's darkwave/coldwave scene throughout the UK, Europe and the US.

Disc: 1
1 The funeral party - Cure, The
2 Come into hell and murder hate - Babel 17
3 Within these walls (2023 Stereo Mix) - Black Tape For A Blue Girl
4 Wild world - Days Of Sorrow
5 Blood bitch - Cocteau Twins
6 See my friend fall - Falk, Lars
7 Nothing to say, easy to answer - Rise And Fall Of A Decade
8 Avatar - Dead Can Dance
9 Say it isn't so - Executive Slacks
10 Lost prayer - In The Nursery
11 The crawler - Psyche
12 Tina town - Kas Product
13 Tear and cinnamon - Eleven Pond
14 A prodigal son - Requiem In White

Disc: 2
1 No songs tomorrow (Album Version) - U.V. Pop
2 Heat - Soft Cell
3 From side to side - Lowlife
4 Moans - Parade Ground
5 Focus breathe - Cranes
6 From foam - Lycia
7 Return to clocktower lodge - Sad Lovers / Giants
8 Looking from a hilltop (Album Version) - Section 25
9 Now and forever - Fra Lippo Lippi
10 Only for you - Essence, The
11 Automaten (Radio Edit) - Mittageisen
12 The screw - Beautiful Pea Green Boat
13 Novy mir - Autumnfair
14 My will - Minimal Compact
15 Pierrot Lunaire [Malice Part 2] - Cuddly Toys

Disc: 3
1 Louise (7" Version) - Clan Of Xymox
2 The condos - Iron Curtain
3 Dark age - Neon
4 Poupée mécanique - Form, Die
5 Blue room - Kirlian Camera
6 Danse / Move - Danse Society
7 Care - SS-Say
8 Amen yves - For Against
9 Rains on me (Short Version) - Heavenly Bodies
10 Demand for supply - Invisible Limits
11 Sickle moon - Xmal Deutschland
12 Hand on heart - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
13 City lights (Long way) - Little Nemo
14 Discipline - Royal Family / Poor, The
15 High rise - Bushido
16 Craving - Mankind's Audio Development

Disc: 4
1 The last refuge - Attrition
2 Picture frame - Two
3 Love - Soul
4 In and out of my mind - Alien Sex Fiend
5 Gauge field - Museum Of Devotion
6 You you (Hansa Studio Version) - Malaria!
7 Suicide commando - No More
8 Decay - Twice A Man
9 Andréa a l'aurore assassine - Collection D'Arnell
10 Give me a name - Vyllies, The
11 Dewy fields - Bel Canto
12 Every seventh wave - Arms Of Someone New, The
13 Exorcise this wasteland - Single Gun Theory
14 Performance (7" Version) - Tones On Tail
15 Clouds - Nooten, Pieter / Brook, Michael