The Warp of Pure Fun, by Paul Haig

The Warp of Pure Fun

by Paul Haig

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1.	Silent Motion 03:51	info	buy track
2.	Heaven Help You Now 04:03	info	buy track
3.	Love Eternal 04:05	info	buy track
4.	This Dying Flame 03:51	info	buy track
5.	Sense of Fun 06:06	info	buy track
6.	Scare Me 03:11	info	buy track
7.	Big Blue World 03:59	info	buy track
8.	The Only Truth 03:49	info	buy track
9.	One Lifetime Away 06:21	info	buy track
10.	Love and War 04:51	info	buy track
11.	Ghost Rider 03:06	info	buy track
12.	Endless Song 04:02	info	buy track
13.	The Executioner 05:22	info	buy track
14.	Heaven Help You Now 12" Mix 08:38	info	buy track
15.	This Dying Flame 12" Mix 06:32	info	buy track
16.	The Only Truth 12" Mix 07:14	info	buy track
17.	Scottish Christmas 02:48	info	buy track

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Les Disques du Crepuscule is proud to present a remastered edition of The Warp of Pure Fun, the acclaimed 1985 album by Scottish songwriter Paul Haig, formerly of influential Postcard/postpunk group Josef K.

Co-produced by Alan Rankine of The Associates, The Warp of Pure Fun followed a brief flirtation with mainstream dance-pop on the Island Records, and marked a return to warmer, more personal songs and arrangements, as well as live drums and ringing guitars, and also embracing emergent digital technology such as Akai sequencers and the Kurzweil sampling keyboard.

The album includes 4 singles in Big Blue World, Heaven Help You Now, Love Eternal and electro-funk stormer The Only Truth, the latter produced with Bernard Sumner of New Order and Donald Johnson of A Certain Ratio. As well as Alan Rankine on luxuriant keyboards, other stellar guests include drummers Steve Goulding, Toby and James Locke, bassist Michael McCann and Blaine L. Reininger of Tuxedomoon, who adds dramatic strings to epic closer Love and War.

Bonus tracks include 12" single versions, Paul’s frantic rockabilly take on Ghost Rider by Suicide, featuring Malcolm Ross and David McClymont of Josef K/Orange Juice, and The Executioner, a spooky 1984 electro collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire taped at their Western Works Studio in Sheffield.

Remastered in 2021 by Peter Beckmann at TechnologyWorks. Artwork by Crepuscule design director Benoit Hennebert.

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released March 9, 2024

Produced by Paul Haig and Alan Rankine.

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