CAMOUFLAGE – Spice Crackers (30th Anniversary Reissue) – 2LP – Vinyl [JAN 9]

2LP – Black Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. Released on vinyl for the first time to mark the album’s 30th Anniversary!

Camouflage are one of the few German bands to have been making music successfully at home and abroad for the last couple of decades. The Great Commandment (1987) and Love Is A Shield (1989) were actually worldwide hits. After four albums, Camouflage felt it was time to experiment. This phase reached its zenith with the album Spice Crackers in 1995 the most daring, most interesting work they ever released. Electropop tracks sit side by side with hypnotic, repetitive, spheric tracks. Now, 30 years later, Spice Crackers will finally be released on vinyl for the first time!

Heiko Maile, Camouflage founder member and producer of Spice Crackers, has this to say about working on the album: “On our previous productions, we started out with just a few songs, worked on these as demos and then went to an external studio to completely re-record them with a producer. Having the idea to produce an album in our own studio, thus giving us more time to experiment, basically wanting to do the whole thing differently, was the beginning of an interminable recording session. Once we got going, surrounded by synthesisers, drum machines, guitars, microphones, a mammoth analogue mixing desk and a few pieces of recording equipment, we simply taped everything that came into our heads. Only a few of these tracks Im deliberately refraining from calling them songs ended up on the original CD. It was a very formative and inspiring time for us in terms of album production.”

Tracklist:

A1. Spice Crackers
A2. X-Ray
A3. Kraft
A4. Electronic Music

B1. Bad News
B2. Days Run Wild
B3. A Place In China (Heaven’s Not)
B4. Zwischenspiel 2

C1. Funky Service (What Do You Want To Drink?)
C2. Back To Heaven
C3. Je Suis Le Dieu

D1. Ronda’s Trigger
D2. Travelling Without Moving
D3. Spacetrain