为纪念电子音乐大师Gary Numan签约旗下20周年，乞丐盛宴公司于1997发行了向Gary Numan致敬的翻唱专辑《Random, Vol. 1》（于1998年发行了第二辑《Random, Vol. 2》），参与艺人有Weezer的前贝司手Matt Sharp、法国另类女歌手An Pierlé、芬兰电子奇才Jimi Tenor和Jesus Jones等，曲目风格更是从Club\u002FDance、House到Ambient Techno、IDM，从New Romantic、New Wave到Synth Pop、Trip-Hop，几乎囊括了电子乐领域内的所有风格。Gary Numan算是电子音乐历史上的一个标志性人物，他和他的专辑《The Pleasure Principle》一起宣告了Synth-pop（合成器流行曲）的诞生，电子音乐不再作为试验者的试验品游离于流行音乐之外，而开始在流行歌曲的背景音乐中扮演重要角色，有人认为这种风格其实就是“将Kraftwerk式的电子音乐和流行小调混在一起”。这张致敬专辑由Gary Numan的老东家Beggars Banquet（乞丐盛宴）厂牌录制并发行。Beggars Group是欧洲三大独立唱片公司之一，旗下还有许多其衍生厂牌，如4AD、Too Pure、Wiiija、XL、Mantra等，Bauhaus等大牌乐队都是其签约艺人。 Gary Numan is known for robotic, stylized singing. His primitive electronics and pre-new romantic sound did nothing for me. A myriad, zealous voices will tell you that Numan was sings good songs. Now, in this 2-CD collection of Numan interpretations you can hear those good songs without Numan's idiosyncratic delivery. The known and the unknown join to make proto-dance music out of mechanical master's material. Matt Sharp (Weezer) and Damon Albarn (Blur) cover We Have a Technical. Also on the compilation are Gravity Kills, EMF, The Magnetic Fields, Jesus Jones, the out-of-place hip hop group Underdog (but, there's only one of them), Sukia, The Orb, Pop Will Eat Itself. One of my favorite cuts is Metal by Towering Inferno. Brian Eno described their Kaddish album as frightening and they are here joined by Eddie Reader. I also am very fond of the two versions of Are 'Friends' Electric? Techno rockers Republicaare joined by Numan himself for one version and Belgian discovery An Pierle offers another.专辑曲目：Disc 2：1. I'm An Agent——Kenickie 2. Down In The Park——Jimi Tenor 3. Are 'Friends' Electric?——Moloko 4. Remember I Was Vapour——Chris Holmes5. Metal——Towering Inferno 6. Everyday I Die——Dubstar 7. Absolution——Amanda Ghost 8. Replicas——Deadsy 9. Friends——Pop Will Eat Itself 10. Are 'Friends' Electric?——Republica 11. War Songs——Windscale 12. We Are So Fragile——Bis 13. Cars (remix)——Dave Clarke