105 tracks charting the british post-punk explosion 1978–1981.

A compendium of familiar names, underground oddities and freshly excavated historical nuggets.

Buzzcocks! Echo and the Bunnymen! The Fall! Killing Joke! Public Image Limited! Siouxsie and the Banshees! Teardrop Explodes! Scritti Politti! The Cure and many more.

Compiled by the team that brought you ‘to the outside of everything’, the ‘c86…’ series, ‘electrical language’, ‘shake the foundations’ and many more in-depth box sets.

Featuring band-by-band biographies and detailed sleevenotes by Mark Paytress.

“Life’s about as boring as a dole queue” – Mark Perry

Punk rock attracted both dreamers and schemers. Many were simply fired up by the music. Some were motivated by manifestos and personal agendas. Others vanished the moment the novelty wore off and the hair dye washed out, leaving behind one or two fine records. Others, like The Clash, The Jam and The Cure, resolved to stay the course, giving themselves new challenges while carving out successful careers. Above all, the post-punk landscape was populated with cult heroes.

‘Moving Away From The Pulsebeat’ takes a whistlestop trip through that landscape as the dust settled on the apocalyptic overhaul of 1977. Curated in chronological order to preserve that journey, and capturing key singles, deep album cuts and fan favourites, this is the story of a genuinely subversive underground about to erupt upon the mainstream, rendering everything that had gone before irrelevant overnight.

Presented in extreme detail, with band-by-band biographies, sleeve imagery, release information and introductory essay by the widely published Mark Paytress.