**Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies** From the archive of Truus de Groot, VOD Records haul out 14 unreleased New Wave gems by the legendary Plus Instruments. Established in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1978 by de Groot - also singer in popular band, Nasmak - Plus Instruments released an EP on Dutch label Plurex before a chance encounter with Rhys Chathams drummer David Linton in 1980 sparked her decision to move to New York in 1981, where she reformed Plus Instruments with a pre-Sonic Youth Lee Ranaldo on guitar and Linton on drums. The songs on Exile In Paradise orbit a club-wise sound, heavily percussive and urgently funky with wayward melodies and de Groots distinctive vocals spanning lusty proto-techno a la CHBB on Paradise or the disco-infected Bodies thru to the industrial thunk of Dont Forgive Me via melodic delights in the playful Things or the chiming New Wave groover, Kalt, and onto eerily charming miniatures such as New York New York or Das Ist Gut So. As always with V-o-Ds previously unreleased