Interstellar Funk – Artificial Dancers (Waves Of Synth)

Recently Interstellar Funk (real name Olf van Elden) has used his Artificial Dance label to offer up a range of new and old tracks that doffs a cap to «wave» music – that hard-to-define, synthesiser-heavy style that first emerged at the turn-of-the-80s and has been evolving ever since. «Artificial Dancers», his first compilation, continues this trend by gathering together personal favourites and rarities that spans 40 years of wave music. It’s a brilliant collection all told, with highlights including the moody dancefloor brilliance of Clan Of Xymox’s «Stranger (Demo)», the Human League’s exceedingly rare 1979 tribute to JG Ballard («4JG»), a killer live recording of «Dias Cortas» by EBM kings Liaisons Dangereuse and the Norwegian eccentricity of Det Gylne Triangel’s wayward post-punk synth-pop classic «Maskindans».