- Under the Flag
Infobox Album | Name = Under The Flag
Type =Album
Artist =Fad Gadget
Released =September 1 1982
Genre =Electronic music
Label = Mute - Stumm 8
Producer =Frank Tovey , John Fryer
Reviews =
Last album = "Incontinent" (1981)
This album = "Under The Flag" (1982)
Next album = "Gag" (1984)|"Under The Flag" is an experimental electronic
album released in 1982 byFad Gadget .Written by
Frank Tovey for the most part concerning his fear for the future of the world, in light of having just becoming 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."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 byFad Gadget 's later album "Gag" which featuresEinstürzende Neubauten , who worked closely with Die Krupps.Track listing
#"Under the Flag I"
#"Scapegoat"
#"Plainsong"
#"Love Parasite"
#"Wheels of Fortune"
#"Life on the Line IV"
#"The Sheep Look Up"
#"Cipher"
#"For Whom the Bells Toll"
#"Under the Flag II"Recorded at Blackwing Studio, All Hallows Church,
London in 1982.
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