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For Future Reference

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Released
  
1981

Genre
  
Synthpop

Recorded
  
Ridge Farm Studio, Surrey

Label
  
The Rocket Record Company

Producer
  
Dramatis, Simon Heyworth

For Future Reference is the only studio album to be released by the British synthpop band Dramatis. The album itself failed to reach the UK Albums Chart, however, one of the three singles released from the album, "Love Needs No Disguise" with Gary Numan providing vocals reached number 33 on the UK Singles Chart. The other singles from the album were "Ex Luna Scientia" and "Oh! Twenty Twenty Five"—titled "Oh! 2025" on the album. The album was reissued on CD in 2000 and retitled The Dramatis Project. The reissue was also credited to Tubeway Army featuring Gary Numan, despite Numan's only contribution being the vocal to "Love Needs No Disguise".

Contents

The album was made available again in 2014 as a digital download only, this time under the title "Terrestrial Channels" and with Gary Numan as the sole artist credit.

Track listing

All tracks written by Dramatis.

  1. "Oh! 2025"
  2. "Human Sacrifice"
  3. "I Only Find Rewind"
  4. "No-One Lives Forever"
  5. "Love Needs No Disguise"
  6. "Turn"
  7. "Take Me Home"
  8. "On Reflection"
  9. "Ex Luna Scientia"

Personnel

  • Chris Payne – keyboards, viola, cornamuse, recorders, backing vocals
  • Rrussell Bell – guitar, Chapman Stick, synthesizer, Vi-tar, saxophone, backing vocals
  • Cedric Sharpley – drums, percussion, electronic drums, backing vocals
  • Denis Haines – keyboards, vocal noises, backing vocals
  • Gary Numan – vocals ("Love Needs No Disguise")
  • Dramatis – producer, arrangements
  • Simon Heyworth – producer, engineer
  • Simon Smart – engineer

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