Equally important – if less acclaimed – as Skinny Puppy and others in the emergence of electro-industrial music as an experimental soundboard were the recordings made in 1985-86 by former Pop Group vocalist Mark Stewart, instrumentalists Tackhead (here billed as Maffia) and producer Adrian Sherwood for the On-U Sound label. The 1985 album As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade was the central work of this collaboration, a dark and dissonant mix of dub, mutant hip-hop, electronics, sinister samples, scratching and other effects, infused with the same radical politics and conspiracy theories that Stewart espoused with The Pop Group. Bastards is an 11-track compilation double-LP which contains eight tracks from that album, plus three revolutionary single tracks recorded during this period by Maffia/Tackhead (side D).