VARIOUS ARTISTS The Mix Tapes - Alternative Music From The Late 70s & 80s (2008 UK 57-track 3-CD album set - Remember when making your own compilations and taping the Radio 1 chart on Sunday evening was the most important thing in the world? Well, it's here again - the 70s and 80s, just as we used to like it - the best alternative tracks beloved by students of the era. Extended mixes and the bands that were the epitome of cool: Japan, Echo & The Bunnymen, A Flock of Seagulls, Joy Division, The Cure, Soft Cell and loads more. Other featured acts include Art Of Noise, Department S, Devo, The Flying Lizards, Furniture, Gang Of Four, John Foxx, Killing Joke, Landscape, PiL, R.E.M., Scott Walker, Scritti Politti, Silicon Teens, Sparks, Wire and XTC.)