Andy Partridge Take Away / The Lure Of Salvage
1980 Vinyl
Dub
Experimental
Minimal

Main image
Virgin
design [cover] Andy Partridge
design [cover] Pearce Marchbank
lacquer cut by Nick Webb
producer [put and take] Andy Partridge
producer [put and take] John Leckie
recorded by Alan Jakoby
sounds [additional sound by], lyrics by [additional] Andy Partridge
sounds [all initial sound by] XTC
written-by Andy Partridge
tracks a2, b2, b4, b5 written-by Colin Moulding
Phonographic Copyright (p) Virgin Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) Virgin Records Ltd.
Produced At Regents Park Studios
Pressed By CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton
Destructed/constructed at Regents Park Recording Company.
This used to be some XTC records. It is now a collection of tracks that have been electronically processed/shattered and layered with other songs or lyrical pieces.
If you liked 'Go+' then this record weighs approximately the same amount.
On 10.10.79 Alan Jakoby was The Tapir.

P 1980 Virgin Records Ltd.
C 1980 Virgin Records Ltd.

Side one – Take Away

Commerciality (Signal Ad) (Andy Partridge) (3:08) – remix of Refrigeration Blues (White Music outtake; the lyrics were a poem called Signal Ad (Saleable Futurity)
The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down (Colin Moulding/Partridge) (3:50) – remix of Heatwave (using the backing tracks and slowing them down)
The Forgotten Language Of Light (Partridge) (4:17) – remix of Millions (using the percussion tracks and adding guitar and ad-libbed vocals)
Steam Fist Futurist (Partridge) (3:09) – remix of Real by Reel (using the backing tracks and adding various sounds)
Shore Leave Ornithology (Another 1950) (Partridge) (5:32) – remix of Pulsing Pulsing (using the backing tracks and adding various things with poetry inspired by Charlie Parker's Ornithology)
Cairo (Partridge) (1:52) – remix of Homo Safari (sped up backing tracks adding keyboards, vocals and handclaps)
Side two – The Lure of Salvage

The Rotary (Partridge) (3:21) – remix of Helicopter (improvised guitar/singing/yelling over drums, bass and percussion tracks)
Madhattan (Moulding/Partridge) (3:17) – remix of That Is The Way (backing track with new sounds added)
I Sit In The Snow (Partridge) (3:12) – remix of Roads Girdle the Globe (slowed-down backing track of the bridge with poem and sounds added)
Work Away Tokyo Day (Moulding/Partridge) (4:05) – remix of Red / Day In Day Out (original beginning, then all nine of Barry Andrews' sax parts from Red played simultaneously, and Day In Day Out sped up with a new bass line)
New Broom (Moulding/Partridge) (5:27) – remix of Making Plans For Nigel (new lyrics and sounds to the backing tracks)
Matrix / Runout: V2145 A (Side A label)
Matrix / Runout: V2145 A (Side B label)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145-A-1 1 0 NICK W Λ (Side A, variant 1, etched exc. 1 0 Λ, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145-B-2 2 Λ (Side B, variant 1, etched exc. 2 Λ, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: V 2145 A2 Nick W ∴ (Side A, variant 2, etched)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145 B-2 ∴ (Side B, variant 2, etched)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145-A-1 2 0 NICK W Λ (Side A, variant 3, etched exc. 2 0 Λ, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145-B-1 C B (Side B, variant 3, etched exc. C B, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145.A-2 2 Nick W Λ (Side A, variant 4, etched exc. 2 Λ, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145.B-2 D (Side B, variant 4, etched exc. D, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145.A-2 2 Nick W Λ (Side A, variant 5)
Matrix / Runout: V-2145.B-2 5 B (Side B, variant 5)



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