IF you could have put together a dream song-writing team as the sun set on the Eighties, who better than a combination of New Order, The Smiths and the Pet Shop Boys.

Getting Away With It arrived so stealthily in December 1989 as the slinky, sumptuous first collaboration between Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr and PSB’s Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. The self-titled Electronic debut album followed in May 1991, Tennant’s glacial cool being confined to only one more number, the gliding, sly Patience Of A Saint. Else-where, Manchester united as Sumner and Marr bonded over their love of Hacienda dance music, a pop hook and mutual desire to stretch their musical wings with keyboards, not guitars.

Further singles Get The Message and Feel Every Beat are the stand-outs, but the thrilling rush of Tighten Up, the nocturnal instrumental Soviet and the graceful Some Distant Memory are all the better for being remastered for a reissue with a second disc of B-sides, instrumentals and club mixes.