Adrian Smith of Luton spent three years playing in punk-inflected bands with his brother Derek (Those Nervous Surgeons, Half Nervous) before retreating alone to a bedroom and a synthesizer in 1979. What emerged was something no one in his immediate environment was making: long, atmospheric, analogue pieces built from hand-played sequences, emotionless production, and a palpable air of melancholia. His first two tapes, From the Silent Days and Absolutely Safe, were given only to friends, having no tape-trading contacts to reach further. By 1980, his third cassette A Career in Dancing was circulating more widely, and word reached the international minimal synth network. Each copy he sent out was slightly different; there was no fixed tracklisting, only a letter on headed notepaper. Adrian Smith would later move on to the project Click Click, leaving Another View as a sealed moment in time.

This box gathers five LPs and a 10-inch from the full run of Adrian Smith's Another View recordings between 1979 and 1981, the most comprehensive survey of his work ever assembled. The material contains everything that made early collectors reach for the superlatives: warm analogue synths, hand-played rather than sequenced, with a melodic sensibility that is never sentimental and a rhythmic restraint that keeps the music hovering just on the edge of stillness. Forced Exposure described it as recordings from "one of the ultimate musical geniuses and protagonists of British minimal synth and EBM."

Limited to 500 copies on white and black vinyl, with a booklet.