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1 + 2 is the debut album by Recoil, released in August 1986. The CD and cassette version were released two years later with Recoil's second release, Hydrology.

1 + 2
Studio album by Recoil
Released	August 1986
Genre	Electronica
Length	33:01
Label	Mute - STUMM 31
Producer	Alan Wilder
Recoil chronology
1 + 2 (1986) Hydrology (1988)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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.[2] 1 + 2, his first collection of demos, though completed in the early 1980s, was inconspicuously released as a 12" EP the same year as his band Depeche Mode's fifth studio album, Black Celebration.[3]

Re-release

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

Track listing

Credits and personnel

• Alan Wilder – Production, Instruments
• T + CP Associates – Sleeve photography and design

Sample sources

The recording is largely built upon samples of other music, primarily by other Mute Records artists - to avoid legal issues during an era when such approach to music-making was not overtly common.

The samples include the following:

• Depeche Mode – "Any Second Now (Altered)"
• Depeche Mode – "If You Want"
• Depeche Mode – "The Sun and the Rainfall"
• Depeche Mode – "Oberkorn (It's a Small Town)"
• Depeche Mode – "The Great Outdoors!"
• Depeche Mode – "Shouldn't Have Done That"
• Depeche Mode – "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
• Depeche Mode – "Shake the Disease (Edit the Shake)"
• Depeche Mode – "Pipeline"
• Depeche Mode – "Blasphemous Rumours"
• Kraftwerk – "Radioaktivität"
• Kraftwerk – "Uran"
• Kraftwerk – "Radioland"
• Duet Emmo – "Or So It Seems"
• Duet Emmo – "Heart of Hearts"
• The Hitmen – "Shade In, Fade Out"
• The voice of Daniel Miller
• Random radio broadcasts

Notes

На других языках

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- [en] 1 + 2 (album)

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[es] 1 + 2

1 + 2 es el primer extended play del proyecto musical Recoil. Fue publicado el 18 de agosto de 1986 por el sello Mute Records.[1] Concebido desde distintos samples de Depeche Mode y otras bandas de Mute, Recoil inició como un proyecto experimental para presentar instrumentales extensos.[2]

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[ru] 1+2

1+2 — дебютный мини-альбом музыкального проекта Recoil Алана Уайлдера (на тот момент — участника группы Depeche Mode), вышедший в 1986 году.

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