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General Strike
General Strike
Danger In Paradise
Style: Electronic
Label: staubgold
Catalog Number: staubgold analog 10
Released: 1984, 80's
Originally released on tape in 1984, David Toop and Steve Beresford’s experimental dub masterpiece Danger in Paradise is a major highlight of the 80’s improvised music scene in the UK. The album features a somewhat supergroup of experimentalists including David Cunningham (Flying Lizards), Lol Coxhill, Dawn Roberts and Maartje ten Hoorn. Toop and Beresford both play a wide array of instruments that you wouldn’t find on a traditional dub album like prepared guitar, farfisa organ, glockenspiel, flugelhorn, and more. Suffice to say this is really not your typical dub or jazz or electronic album and it’s hard to really label it any genre at all… Richard Cook does his best to sum up the album in the liner notes: ‘The atmosphere which General Strike conjure together suits an old fashioned, cold war-ish scenario of technology. Their ‘Interplanetary Music’ is the space pop of George Pal and ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’, of computers built like Blackpool Tower in order to struggle through simple trigonometry, of ‘The Jetsons’ and I.G.Y.”
– Phil Cho
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Ambient / Dub / Experimental
Tracklist:
A1 My Other Body
A2 The Fatal Glass
A3 Next
A4 Sea Hunt
A5 Snowdrops
A6 The Barkless Dog
A7 Interplanetary Music
B1 Parts Of My Body
B2 Bamboo House Of Dolls
B3 Interplanetary Dub
B4 We Travel The Spaceways
B5 Friendless Animals
B6 Babycart To Hell
B7 Guided Missiles
B8 Danger In Paradise
Credits:
Composed By – Toop* (tracks: A1 to A6, B1, B2, B5, B6, B8), Beresford* (tracks: A1 to A6, B1, B2, B5, B6, B8)
Design [Uncredited], Compiled By [Uncredited] – Jon Wozencroft
Mastered By – H.P.*
Producer, Bass, Piano, Organ [Farfisa], Synthesizer [Prophet 5], Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Euphonium, Percussion, Glockenspiel, Voice, Toy Piano, Melodica, Noises, Electronic Drums [Drumkit], Drum Programming [Rhythm Tracks] – Steve Beresford
Producer, Guitar, Guitar [Prepared Guitar], Bass, Percussion, Flute, Alto Flute, Glockenspiel, Voice, Tape, Drum Programming [Rhythm Tracks] – David Toop
Tape [Treatments], Producer, Design [Uncredited], Compiled By [Uncredited] – David Cunningham
