Bustin Out 1982: New Wave To New Beat volume 2 is the second installment in veteran DJ Mike Maguire s fascinating new mission aimed at charting the groundbreaking developments in electronic-based music through the 80s. The set kicks off in Germany with Dusseldorf s proto-industrial Electronic Body Music exponents Die Krupps and the six-minute 12-inch version of Goldfinger being their irreverent take on electronically-cultivated pop music. Klein & M.B.O. s unadulterated dancefloor classic Dirty Talk , marked the blueprint for the oncoming House revolution. The importance of the trio of New York acts contained in this collection is inestimable. South Bronx sisters E.S.G., who opened Manchester s Hacienda, remained above pigeonholing, influencing anything from hiphop to house. The second monolithic Big Apple outing is Hip Hop Be Bop by Man Parrish, whose ingenious welding of Kraftwerk robo-sonics and European synth-pop sounds were a crossover club sensation. Thirdly is Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force the first hiphop record to use a drum machine, setting the electronic rhythm beast loose in hiphop, providing the blueprint for electro and bringing a unifying house music sensibility to the party. Tubeway Army opened volume 1 and here Gary Numan is represented by Music For Chameleons displaying a more mature, haunted city style than earlier outings. Other artists getting additional airing from volume 1 are ex Throbbing Gristle duo Chris & Cosey, with their popping proto-electro of Impulse , and Belgium s new-beat pioneers Front 242 whose second release U-Men is possibly the rarest item on display here, currently fetching around £300. Meanwhile Mark Stewart, who by 1982 had left Bristol social agitators The Pop Group, released the Jerusalem EP which featured the bleak alien dub-funk of Welcome To Liberty City , a suitably unsettling backdrop for his wired urban reportage. This is neatly followed by Dub Syndicate s Pounding System , the opening track on the UK dub landmark LP The Pounding System [Ambience in Dub]. A more avant-jazz flavoured other-worldliness, even foreshadowing dubstep, continues with Benjamin Lew and Steve Brown teaming up on Dans Les Jardin . Shriekback are represented here with their rousing funk chant of My Spine Is My Bassline , and Colourbox with their 4AD debut Breakdown . Another serious master-stroke is the inclusion of South London s infamous Portion Control, whose fearsome brand of electro punk or hard rhythmic electronics is represented by Fiends from their 1982 debut album, I Staggered Mentally, showing why they were later cited as an influence by Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Orbital and the Prodigy. The set ends with the hugely-influential but obscure Pylon, from Athens, Georgia, who were much championed by R.E.M. and the B-52 s. Four Minutes was the b-side of the 12-inch version of their Beep single, heaving through a crashing, alien dronescape, making a suitably unorthodox finale for this rather fine summation of a year when blips on the musical radar often assumed depth charge proportions.