#dalek i

[isaliquid]

Man, I have gotten hyperfixated with a song.

I have now listened to it almost 30 times, and I first heard it today. So I guess time to share.

By the one of the silliest band names I've ever read. "Dalek I", Their song "heat" is so brain worming into me.

I need a second opinion on if it's good or not

But it grooves too hard.

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dalek // i

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Dalek I Love You - Horrorscope

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Seattle purveyors of lost and forgotten synth records has just reissued Dalek I's first album Compass Kum'pas. It's pressed on hot pink vinyl, limited to 1000 copies and comes with a bonus flexi disc. All the details are at Medical Records. 

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Dalek I Love You - "Happy" [1980]

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Dalek I- "The World" (1979)

The Liverpool post-punk scene of the late 1970s is a little incestuous. Two of the men who formed this band, Alan Gill and David Balfe, both ended up joining The Teardrop Explodes with Julian Cope. Another, David Hughes, ended up joining Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark with Andy McCluskey- himself a former member of this band. The final founding member, Chris "Teepee" Shaw, formed the critically-acclaimed but little-heard Some Detergents after his departure in 1981. 

The band was a little cursed from almost the beginning. Punk had crashed landed (indeed Gill and Balfe had played in a punk band called Radio Blank before becoming disinterested in the form) and the direction forward was more than little fluid. Liverpool was a hotbed of electronic music, heavily influenced by the work of Can and Kraftwerk. All kinds of ideas were flying around and people were experimenting wildly, making it hard to keep a lineup together. By the time the band signed to Phonogram Records in 1979, only Gill and Hughes remained. 

Unfortunately for them, the label shortening the name they had been using, Dalek I Love You, to just Dalek I. The name had originally been a compromise between Gill and Balfe, the latter wanting to name the band "Darling, I Love You" while the former wanted to name the band after Doctor Who's robot enemies. On the plus side the production duo of Chris Hughes and Paul Collister (OMD's then-manager), collectively known as The Blitz Brothers, were attracted to work with the band. 

Two singles ("Freedom Fighters" and this song) preceded their 1980 debut album, "Compass Kumpas", which has rightfully gone down in history as a classic of early electro-pop. Gill disbanded the outfit to join The Teardrop Explodes but his time was short-lived in that outfit. He reactivated the Dalek I Love You name and kept at it until 1985. The final statement, "Naive", may or may not be able to be had for free here. 

-Jim

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Dalek I-- Dalek I Love You (Destiny) (1980)