Reproduction

This article is about a band album. For the general process of reproduction see reproduction .

Reproduction
The Human League's studio album
Publication (s)	October 1979
Label (s)	Virgin Records
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	New wave , post-punk
Title (number)	10
running time	43:10
occupation	Singing / Keyboard: Philip Oakey Singing / Keyboard: Ian Craig Marsh Singing / Keyboard: Martyn Ware
production	The Human League and Colin Thurston
chronology - Reproduction Travelogue (1980)
Single release October 12, 1979 Empire State Human

Reproduction is the debut album by the British synth-pop band The Human League .

History of origin

After the single Being Boiled and the EP The Dignity of Labor , the band left his label Fast Records on the advice of manager Bob Last. A&R manager Simon Draper then signed The Human League for Virgin Records .

The rhythm tracks for the album were recorded in July 1979 in the workshop in Sheffield by the band themselves. Co-producer Colin Thurston, who had recently completed his first album as a producer with Magazine's Secondhand Daylight , completed the production by overdubbing and mixing at Red Bus studios in London. In addition to their own compositions, the band also covered the song You've Lost That Lovin 'Feelin' by Barry Mann , Cynthia Weil and Phil Spector , with which The Righteous Brothers had a number one hit in the United States in February 1965.

Texts

Almost Medieval , written by Philip Oakey , was influenced by Philip K. Dick's 1969 novel Ubik . The Blind Youth, written by Martyn Ware, is directed against the dehumanization propagated by James Graham Ballard , as it was processed in their song texts by Gary Numan ( The Pleasure Principle , 1979) and John Foxx ( Metamatic , 1980) around the same time .

reception

In his review for the music database Allmusic, John Bush emphasizes the callousness of the album: “The trio of Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware, and Philip Oakey all handled vocals and synthesizers to create a set of grim, rigid tracks that revealed a greater lack of humanity than even Kraftwerk. "(German: The trio consisting of Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware and Philip Oakey created a series of grim and rigid songs with vocals and synthesizers, which even reveal less humanity than Kraftwerk .)

Track list

All tracks except You've Lost That Lovin 'Feelin' (Mann, Weill, Spector) were composed and written by Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh and Philip Oakey.

#	title	length
1.	Almost Medieval	4:34
2.	Circus of Death	3:51
3.	The Path of Least Resistance	3:27
4th	Blind Youth	3:16
5.	The World Before Last	3:56
6th	Empire State Human	3:10
7th	Morals ... You've Lost That Loving Feeling	9:30
8th.	Austerity / Girl One (Medley)	6:38
9.	Zero As A Limit	4:01

The album was digitally remastered in 2003 by Simon Heyworth on Super Audio Mastering and released with eight bonus tracks on EMI Virgin. Bonus titles include the 'fast version' single versions of Being Boiled and Circus of Death (released on Fast Records) and the four-part EP The Dignity of Labor .

Web links

• Album at FreeDB, discID # 7b0a4309

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Simon Reynolds: Totally Wired . Soft Skull Press, Berkley 2010, ISBN 978-1-59376-286-5 , pp. 284 ff .
2. ^ John Bush: Reproduction - The Human League: Sogns, Reviews, Credits, Awards: AllMusic. In: allmusic.com. RoviCorp., Accessed November 11, 2012 .