Pigs + Battleships, by Quando Quango

Pigs + Battleships

by Quando Quango

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1.	Genius 06:25	info	buy track
2.	Go Exciting 05:55	info	buy track
3.	Happy Boy 05:10	info	buy track
4.	Rebel 05:43	info	buy track
5.	This Feeling 05:05	info	buy track
6.	S.T. 04:40	info	buy track
7.	40 Dreams 05:55	info	buy track
8.	Low Rider 04:24	info	buy track
9.	Love Tempo (Mark Kamins Remix) 07:07	info	buy track
10.	Atom Rock (Radio Session) 05:11	info	buy track
11.	Triangle (Radio Session) 03:47	info	buy track
12.	Swampland (Radio Session) 04:38	info	buy track
13.	S.T. (Radio Session) 05:43	info	buy track

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Factory Benelux presents a remastered edition of 'Pigs + Battleships', the sole album by electro-dance group Quando Quango, originally released on Factory Records in November 1985.

Produced by legendary New York mixmaster Mark Kamins, the album includes the infectious club singles Love Tempo and Genius, both Hacienda classics and firm favourites of deejays from Larry Levan to Andrew Weatherall to Felix Da Housecat. Bonus tracks include all 4 songs from Quando's punchy 1984 BBC radio session for David Jensen, which includes the definitive version of Atom Rock as well as Swampland, a song never recorded elsewhere.

Quando Quango were Mike Pickering, Gonnie Rietveld, Simon Topping and Barry Johnson. Guest musicians include Andy Connell, Vini Reilly, Donald Johnson and Beverly McDonald. Post Quango, Mike Pickering and Simon Topping went on to form British House music pioneers T-Coy, and later M People.

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"Quando Quango fused an international array of influences into big, club-friendly sound that made an impact during the period after disco's fall and before house's rise. Love Tempo and Atom Rock are cult favourites among dance music lovers" (LA Weekly, 2017)

"In retrospect they make perfect sense. Genius sounds like Kraftwerk attending New York's Puerto Rican day, while Love Tempo is quirky, shouty dance perfection" (Q Magazine, 01/2004)

"From the frisky tricks and busy mischief of the opening Genius and Go Exciting through the Brazilian danger man theme on S.T., the lovers-rock bubblegum of This Feeling and the closing cover of War's Low Rider, Quando are consistently surprising and persuasive. A happy record" (NME, 1985)

"They got their formula right all along, and the album remains a treat for head, heart and feet. P+B covers a variety of bases successfully, taking in 80s style club moves, smouldering sambas with gorgeous jazzy piano, and nudges into updates of that classic 70s Jamaican reggae vibe. Very attractive indeed, people" (Whisperin' & Hollerin', 11/2003)

"A time-stamped snapshot of ambitious artists trying to re-make countless styles, from salsa to funk to Afropop" (eMusic, 09/2006)

"Stand-out track Love Tempo reaches away from the East Coast and toward continental Europe, with almost Italo disco arpeggios, beats that recall the malleable percussive ticks of minimal House, and a fat, chorused bassline" (The Wire, 01/2008)

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released March 30, 2024

Recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, in December 1984. Engineered by Tim Oliver. Mixed by Mark Kamins at Shakedown Sound, NYC, February 1985. Sleeve by Alan David-Tu. FACT 110

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