This EP was originally recorded for Dutch label Enfant Terrible's Gooiland Electro sublabel in 2014. For many years ET has been one of my favorite labels and when the question came if I would be interested in an EP, I did not hesitate. The track with Beta Evers was something that was on top of my musical want list for a long time. I’m not generally an artist that likes to collaborate with everybody and their brother, but I always felt that with Beta, we’d have a combo that would work well. Unfortunately we never actually met in person for this track, but in this digital day and age luckily you don’t actually have to. I sent her some raw material, she picked something she thought she could work with, and then the tracks and parts kept going back and forth until we were both satisfied.
As I recall, the track with Sololust on vocals originally started as a remix idea but very quickly it because a Rude 66 track with Sololust’s vocals in it. It’s a subtle difference, but it’s there and everybody agreed. The 2 instrumental tracks both have an 80’s/ cold war theme, to complement the vocal tracks that are also in a bit 80’s wave style. Of the two, Mutual Assured Destruction is still part of our live set to this day.
The vinyl release had a very limited amount of copies on translucent green vinyl, the rest were black. If you are lucky, these are also still for sale here (I found a few extra copies) because the release itself is long deleted and will never be repressed.
This digital release has two additional bonus tracks: an instrumental demo version of Under Cover of the Night and The Anvil, the sister track to Under Cover. This one was eventually released on Telex Magick, a compilation album by Marguerita Records from Utrecht, Netherlands.
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