![]() Stephen Morris described the sound of the Balearic beat clubs on the island they began to visit as "mad! They'd put an acid record on and then the next one would be a Queen one-it was schizophrenic, really. You'd leave blocks and say, 'will you fill that in? I'm off now.'" The band had chosen to record in Ibiza at Hook's urging after a series of records made in "dark and horrible" London studios. It was like, 'oh you do your drums today, and I'll do the vocals tonight.' The songs were sort of there but there were huge chunks missing. Gillian Gilbert recalled, "We had Mike (Johnson, engineer) with us, so there was always somebody doing something, but it was the beginning of us not being together in the studio when we were doing things. When recording on the island of Ibiza, the band was heavily influenced by the environment around them and became fascinated by Balearic club music. I was resisting it valiantly, because I still wanted us to be a rock band." The way I saw it was we were still writing band music as well, so we'd reached a compromise." Peter Hook joked that the album was "an epic power struggle between the sequencers and me. Bernard Sumner reflected "We were in this position of being known for this dance-electronic sound and it would have been daft to have just stopped doing it. ![]() In the late 1980s, the band felt that they had to keep on playing with dance-electronic rhythms. ![]()
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