This 2CD collection brings together the entire recorded output of synth-pop pioneers, Fiat Lux during the 1980s. The original 'Hired History' album - and indeed all of the bonus tracks - appear here on CD for the very first time. Disc one features the band's commercially released tracks including their debut single for Cocteau Records and the five released by Polydor Records in a period spanning 1982-85. Disc two features the lost and previously unreleased second album 'Ark of Embers' as the band originally intended it when it was made with producer, Hugh Jones.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Secrets

Fiat Lux

2.Photography

Fiat Lux

3.Blue Emotion (12" Version)

Fiat Lux

4.Comfortable Life

Fiat Lux

5.Sleepless Nightmare (12" Version)

Fiat Lux

6.Aqua Vitae

Fiat Lux

7.Feels Like Winter Again

Fiat Lux

8.This Illness

Fiat Lux

9.Photography (Unreleased Bill Nelson Version)

Fiat Lux

10.Comfortable Life (Unreleased Bill Nelson 12" Version)

Fiat Lux

11.House of Thorns

Fiat Lux

12.Sleepless Nightmare

Fiat Lux

13.Three's Company

Fiat Lux

14.House of Thorns (12" Version)

Fiat Lux

15.Solitary Lovers (12" Version)

Fiat Lux

16.No More Proud (Proud Mix)

Fiat Lux

17.No More Proud (Dub Mix)

Fiat Lux

18.Sally Free and Easy

Fiat Lux

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.The Moment

Fiat Lux

2.Breaking the Boundary

Fiat Lux

3.Blue Emotion

Fiat Lux

4.Embers

Fiat Lux

5.No More Proud

Fiat Lux

6.Photography

Fiat Lux

7.Splurge

Fiat Lux

8.Secrets

Fiat Lux

9.Aqua Vitae

Fiat Lux

10.In the Heat of the Night

Fiat Lux

11.Solitary Lovers

Fiat Lux

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