Visage ‎– Tar

The version of 'Frequency 7' found here is a markedly different beast to the Dance Mix released two years later.
They're both excellent in my opinion.

Now striking a magic wand to search and download anything, I believe, many finally experienced pleasure of hearing the earliest Visage recording made available. Unlike everything they released afterwards, "Tar/Frequency 7" is by far the group's most experimentally flavoured offering. An earlier reviewer here marked the title song is identical in mix to the one slightly later appearing on the group's excellent debut album. I cannot agree to that one - while it's not that much different, this 7" version of "Tar" is less sharp, featuring some bits discreetly different (for example, sax solos towards the end of the song), while the very track is given a little bit more reverb in its entirety.

While "Tar" in itself provides a fascinating mixture of dance intensity and social comment, the real treasure piece here is definitely "Frequency 7" - a futuristic tour-de-force robo-synth punch in the teeth, that ends in vocal hysterics ("Face the future, is it now - you can't stop it anyhow...!"). For a long time this one has been sought after, but somewhere in the meantime Visage provided their fans with a slower (and somewhat more dull) "dance mix" version, that excluded vocals completely, relying on itself as instrumental. Now with a more proper scan of the 7" single, it's finally given a proper insight to Visage's earliest - and in my personal opinion, their most aggressive piece of music.

B-side "Frequency 7" is a dark vocal version of the track appearing later as a remixed dance instrumental. "Tar" is the same mix that appears on their debut album.