1+2

Infobox Album
Name = 1 + 2
Type = Studio
Artist = Recoil


Released = August 1986
Recorded =
Genre = Electronica
Length = 33:01
Label = Mute - STUMM 31
Producer = Alan Wilder
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:23jweay04xh7 link]
Last album =
This album = "1 + 2"
(1986)
Next album = "Hydrology"
(1988)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Type = Album


Lower caption = CD release of "Hydrology Plus 1+2"

"1+2" is a Recoil studio EP, released in August 1986.

"1+2" was Alan Wilder's first solo release away from Depeche Mode. The CD and cassette version were released two years later with Recoil's second release, "Hydrology".

Wilder had always experimented with his own ideas, but when Daniel Miller heard some demos (recorded on a Portastudio, a 4-track cassette machine) and asked to reproduce them, Recoil became a musical entity. The early recordings show Wilder's position as a pioneer in sampling technology and demonstrated how he could completely change the Depeche Mode sound into something new [From Recoil's official website: [http://www.recoil.co.uk/afiles/hist/recoil1.htm Shunt] ] .

"1 + 2", his first collection of demos, though completed in the early 1980s, was inconspicuously released as a 12" EP the same year as Depeche Mode's top five album, "Black Celebration" [ Recoil's official website: [http://www.recoil.co.uk/afiles/hist/recoil2.htm Shunt] ] .

Re-release

The CD of "Hydrology Plus 1+2" was re-released in 2007, again on Mute Records. The tracklisting and artwork remain the same.

Track listing

All music written by Alan Wilder.

#"1" – 14:24
#"2" – 18:37

Credits and personnel

*Alan Wilder - Production, Instruments
*T + CP Associates - Sleeve photography and design

Notes