Taking cues from the long shadow of the mid '80s, this selection circles original European new wave disco styles and their modern antecedents. We're talking slower, sleazier and darker grooves like Liaisons Dangereuses' 'Aperitif de la Mort' or Lena Platonos' 'Shadows Of Blood beauty, right thru to Lena Willikens with the narcotic deliquescence of 'Nilpferd' or the brooding swagger of INIT's 'Talking About Talking' beauty for Hivern Discs. We've included a couple of old gems you would likely find at the AB in Brussels circa '86, namely Executive Slacks' 'So Mote It be' and Informatics' 'Proximity Switch', up along with Benedikt Frey's swaggering Le Rolls-like proto-house swagger and the icy nEuro synth elan of Xander Harris' 'Heathen Birth', drawing connections between Soma Holiday's 'Art Dimension' and Marie Davidson's 'Excès de Vitesse' or the gothically-tinted arpeggios of Le Travo's 'Amarcord' gem.