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Released
  
April 14, 1992

Bloodline (1992)
  
Unsound Methods (1997)

Release date
  
14 April 1992

Label
  
Sire Records

Length
  
50:38

Artist
  
Recoil

Producer
  
Alan Wilder

Genre
  
Electronica

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Recorded
  
Jan - Mar 1991, Konk Studios, London (Mixed Oct - Dec 1991)

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Bloodline is the third EP by Recoil, released April 14, 1992. It was recorded at Konk Studio, in London, during sessions that lasted from January to March 1991, being mixed late that same year. The album was produced by Alan Wilder, engineered by Steve Lyon, and assisted by Dave Eringa.

Contents

Bloodline was Alan Wilder's third Recoil release.

After completing Depeche Mode's most successful album, Violator, and subsequent World Violation Tour (with Nitzer Ebb as the support act), Wilder co-produced Nitzer's 1991 album Ebbhead. This cemented both a good personal and working relationship with Nitzer lead singer Douglas McCarthy. After completing the Nitzer Ebb album, Wilder went to work on his solo project, and McCarthy returned the favor by performing on the Recoil album.

Wilder recruited guest vocalists for the first time: Moby, Toni Halliday (from the band Curve), and Douglas McCarthy, helping produce a significant move forward. It also marked the first Recoil single, a cover of the Alex Harvey song "Faith Healer".

The album is also notable for the track "Electro Blues for Bukka White", which introduced the idea of taking very old recordings and setting them in a new electronic setting. Moby, who contributed vocals for the song "Curse" under the name R.Hall, arguably used this inspiration for his breakthrough 1999 album, Play, for which he used several old field recordings by Alan Lomax, much as Wilder had used a 1937 recording of White's "Shake 'Em on Down".

Track listing

All music written by Alan Wilder except Faith Healer (Alex Harvey and Hugh McKenna)

  1. "Faith Healer" (Vocals: Douglas McCarthy)
  2. "Electro Blues for Bukka White" (Words: Bukka White)
  3. "The Defector" (instrumental)
  4. "Edge To Life" (Words: Toni Halliday)
  5. "Curse" (Words: R. Hall)
  6. "Bloodline" (Words: Toni Halliday)
  7. "Freeze" (instrumental)

7" (MUTE 110) (UK)

  1. "Faith Healer (LP Version)" – Mixed by Wilder and Lyon
  2. "Faith Healer (Healed Mix)" – Remixed by LFO

12" and CD (12 MUTE 110 / CD MUTE 110) (UK)

  1. "Faith Healer (LP Version)" – Mixed by Wilder and Lyon
  2. "Faith Healer (Trance Mix)" – Mixed by Wilder and Lyon
  3. "Faith Healer (Conspiracy Theory)" – Remixed by Daniel Miller and Philipp Erb, Engineered by Mike Bigwood
  4. "Faith Healer (Disbeliever Mix)" – Remixed by LFO
  5. "Faith Healer (Deformity)" – Mixed by Wilder and Lyon
  6. "Faith Healer (Barracuda Mix)" – Additional production and mix by Moby (Listed as Richard Hall)
  7. "Faith Healer (Conspiracy (Double Bullet) Theory)" – Remixed by Miller and Erb, Engineered by Bigwood

Songs

1Faith Healer6:00
2Electro Blues for Bukka White8:57
3The Defector8:07

References

Bloodline (Recoil album) Wikipedia