Freed from the demands of a mainstream, commercial record company, Nelson released considerable quantities of singles and LPs on Cocteau throughout the decade, much of it by himself but also a number of singles by other artists, notably Last Man in Europe, A Flock of Seagulls, The Revox Cadets, Richard Jobson, Q (16), Fiat Lux, Man Jumping and Yukihiro Takahashi. The more ambitious Cocteau releases by Nelson himself included the four-LP box set of experimental electronic music "Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours)" and the later ambient two-LP collection "Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights", which contained music informed by Nelson's Gnostic beliefs. In 1989, he released the 4-CD box set "Demonstrations of Affection".