Drastic Measures, Drastic Movement [Factory Benelux FBN 13 CD]

Drastic Measures, Drastic Movement
Factory Benelux, FBN 13 CD (replacing LTMCD 2384)

Disc one

Springtime I
Minny Pops
Hologram
Total Confusion
Dolphin's Spurt
Motor City
Springtime II
Monica
Flash Goes The Eye
MD Mania
R.U. 21
Mono
Muzak
Kojak
Footsteps
Nervous
Dolphin's Spurt (remix)

Disc two (live recordings)

Springtime I
Minny Pops
Hologram
Total Confusion
Dolphin's Spurt
Motor City
Springtime II
Monica
Flash Goes The Eye
MD Mania
R.U. 21
Mono
Muzak

Band Line-Up

Studio

Wally van Middendorp (vocals, drum machine)
Stef Emmer (guitar)
Dennis Duchhart (guitar)
Frans Hagenaars (bass)

Live

Wally van Middendorp
Pieter Mulder
Dennis Duchhart
Thomas Myrmel
Bart de Vrees
Jeroen Kimman
Wilbert Bulsink.

Credits

Production: Minny Pops.

Notes

The debut album, originally released in 1979 on Plurex, was re-released as a double-disc CD on 20 October 2014 by Factory Benelux.

Disc one includes nine bonus tracks in addition to the digitally restored and remastered album. This material includes the band's three-track debut EP Kojak; a 2003 remix by Zip and DJ Smacker of Dolphin's Spurt; and 12 minutes of video footage comprising 5 live tracks, recorded at the Amsterdam Filmakademie in 1979.

Disc two features 2 features a complete live performance of the album recorded at Dansmakers in Amsterdam on 11 March 2012.

"One of those enjoyable albums that is at once of its time and just slightly out of it. Minny Pops here slot into more of an early Human League / Cabaret Voltaire approach of minimal melodies and murky, crumbling noises shot through with murmuring keyboards" (All Music Guide, 10/04)