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Released
  
September 1, 1982

Artist
  
Fad Gadget

Label
  
Mute Records

Producers
  
Fad Gadget, John Fryer

Under the Flag (1982)
  
Gag (1984)

Release date
  
1 September 1982

Genre
  
New wave

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Similar
  
Fireside Favourites, Incontinent, The Best of Fad Gadget, Gag, The Fad Gadget Singles

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Under the Flag is an experimental electronic album released in 1982 by Fad Gadget.

Contents

Written by Frank Tovey for the most part concerning his fear for the future of the world, in light of having just become a father. He was apparently afraid of the world his son was going to grow up in. Sampling, which was new technology back in the early 1980s is incorporated into the album and sequencing is also heavily used. It features backing vocals by fellow Mute Records artist Alison Moyet.

"Scapegoat" features a Dutch nursery rhyme. Some of the ideas on this album were heavily inspired by German band Die Krupps and this is borne out by Fad Gadget's later album Gag which features Einstürzende Neubauten, who worked closely with Die Krupps.

Track listing

  1. "Under the Flag I"
  2. "Scapegoat"
  3. "Love Parasite"
  4. "Plainsong"
  5. "Wheels of Fortune"
  6. "Life on the Line IV"
  7. "The Sheep Look Up"
  8. "Cipher"
  9. "For Whom the Bells Toll"
  10. "Under the Flag II"

Recorded at Blackwing Studios, All Hallows Church, London in 1982. Produced by Fad Gadget and John Fryer

Personnel

  • Fad Gadget – vocals, synthesizer, computer
  • Nick Cash – Timpani, Vibraphone, Percussion [Hand-held]
  • David Simmonds – grand piano, synthesizer
  • chorus: Alison Moyet, Andrew Kay, Anne Clift, Barbara Frost, Jill Tipping, John Fryer, Yvette Anna

    • Songs

    1Under the Flag I3:08
    2Scapegoat2:53
    3Love Parasite5:30

    References

    Under the Flag Wikipedia
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