Album: Various Artists, Street Sounds – Nu Electro Volume 1, (Street sounds)

The seminal and fondly remembered Street Sounds compilations, of which 22 were released between 1983 and 1988, made the cutting-edge new electronic music US kids were body-popping to available to anyone on this side of the Atlantic with a £5 Our Price voucher.

Twenty years on, the resurrected label introduces us to "nu electro", which to untrained ears sounds exactly like the old stuff. It's probably a niche interest this time around, but its charm is that it continues to sound of the future.