Pet Shop Boys - Disco 1-4 -1986-2007- 4-cd Set -

You can’t overstate how perfect Disco was for its moment. 1986. The Pet Shop Boys had just conquered the world with Please , but they knew their music lived in clubs as much as on the radio. So they gave us Disco : five tracks, all remixes, no filler.

Here’s a blog-style post about the Disco 1–4 CD box set from Pet Shop Boys. Nightclubs, Remixes, and Robots: Revisiting Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Disco 1–4’ (1986–2007) Pet Shop Boys - Disco 1-4 -1986-2007- 4-CD Set

Put the discs in chronological order, and you hear synth-pop turn into house, house turn into electroclash, electroclash turn into 2000s prog-house. But more than that, you hear two constants: Neil Tennant’s voice, always a little detached, always observing; and Chris Lowe’s iron-fisted commitment to the beat. You can’t overstate how perfect Disco was for its moment

Disco 4 is the odd one out. Originally released during the Fundamental era, it’s essentially a collection of PSB remixes and productions for other artists – plus two of their own. So they gave us Disco : five tracks, all remixes, no filler

So turn off the lights. Turn up the subwoofer. And let the Pet Shop Boys take you from 1986 to 2007, one midnight at a time.