Part of Chris & Cosey's remastered limited edition vinyl series 2023 - Elemental 7 has cast a long shadow of influence over almost all electronic music since it was made, so it almost goes without saying that it's essential, historic listening.

The album - available here for the first time in 40 years - is the soundtrack to the film of the same name (on Cabaret Voltaire's Doublevision video imprint) that saw the duo working once more with John Lacey - Lacey had previously worked with Cosey in COUM Transmissions and introduced Chris Carter to the collective.

The album's highlight and one of their best loved songs, 'Dancing Ghosts', sounds as fresh and relevant today as it must have on its original release.

A cult classic of the early `80s interzone between what we now call post-industrial and proto-techno styles.

It's perhaps most notably hailed as one of the first ever recordings to combine Roland's 303 and 808 boxes in its album highlight, Dancing Ghosts, and still sounds entirely, remarkably future-proofed a whole generation down the line.

Elemental 7 marked a decisive move away from the sensual synth-pop of Chris & Cosey - itself a break with the bitterest ends of their previous group, Throbbing Gristle - to a blend of abstract, synthesised atmospheres and needlepoint rhythm programming joined by processed vocals, Cornet and a mass of self-built electronic instruments.

The album's sounds and arrangements, oscillating between breathtakingly immersive ambient architecture and inimitably tight electro-techno templates, are sensitive to synaesthetics and course with an amorphous nature and sensuality which simply didn't exist before they brought the sound to life in this manner.