Sleevenotes: "At a time when the spotlight has fallen on the pioneering New York clubs of the '70s and '80s as a 3-D alternative to today's zap culture superclubs, the adventurous spirit and boundary-breaking antics of the music makers of the era are equally worthy of closer inspection, from whichever standpoint they are viewed. The first volume of Disco Not Disco focused on live musicianship and some unexpected leftfield meanderings from established names from the world of rock. Volume 2 balances this with a nod to a select band of electonic pioneers who made up their own rulebook as technology jumped forward in the early '80s. The experiments were bubbling away in sound labs across the world. On this album, you will hear grooves from New York's avant garde, from Italy, Switzerland and Denmark. Even reggae producers were pushing electro into their booming basslines. At the time, most of these musicians were probably seen as a bit barking. Today, they are universally influential on a whole generation of dance music studioheads."