One + One By One, by Minimal Compact

One + One By One

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Minimal Compact's groundbreaking debut mini-album, remastered and now available on 180gr vinyl

SIDE A
A1 Statik Dancin'
A2 Creation Is Perfect (I Am A Camera)
A3 Ready-Made Diary
SIDE B
B1 To Get Inside
B2 Happy Babouge

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1.	Statik Dancin' 03:42	buy track
2.	Creation Is Perfect (I Am A Camera) 04:18	buy track
3.	Ready-Made Diary 04:35	buy track
4.	To Get Inside 05:11	buy track
5.	Happy Babouge 03:21	buy track
6.	Invocation (For Things To Come) 03:18	buy track
7.	Cold Life 04:00	buy track
8.	Take Me Away 02:39	buy track
9.	It Takes A Lifetime 03:04	buy track
10.	Disguise 04:45	buy track
11.	Babylonian Tower 03:34	buy track
12.	Orkha Bamidbar (The Wandering Song) 04:29	buy track
13.	Head Section 02:19	buy track
14.	Morpheus Secrets 04:48	buy track
15.	Ships 02:01	buy track

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"One" is Minimal Compact's originally self-titled debut mini-album, which was recorded and released in 1981. The band was still a trio at the time (consisting of Samy Birnbach, Berry Sakharof and Malka Spigel). They were assisted for this recording by Dick Polak (from Dutch band Mecano, who played accordion), Marc Hollander (woodwind & organ), Corrie Bolten (synth) and drummers Pieter Bannenberg and Stephane Karo. Containing a.o. the emblematic Statik Dancin', which became a classic, this mini-album immediately put Minimal Compact on the map.

"One By One" was the first full-length album by the band, who had become a quartet with the adjunction of drummer Max Franken. It was recorded during the Spring & Summer of ‘82, first in Dordrecht then in London’s Berry Street Studio. Dick Polak and Marc Hollander co-produced and guested on various instruments. The MC sound of that period is best exemplified by a song like “Babylonian Tower”, with its driving rhythm, funky guitar, apocalyptical lyrics and Middle-Eastern flavouring.

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released September 1, 1981

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Minimal Compact Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel

One of the most inspirational bands of the '80s, they blended funky rock rhythms and incisive guitars with flavours from their native Middle East.

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