Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid

trongod, Oct 12, 2006

Stakker was the collaborative work of video artists Mark McClean and Colin Scott.
Stakker needed someone to engineer on the music for what eventually became the Eurotechno video and got Brian Dougans to work with them.
Stakker sent Morgan Khan a video tape of their graphics which had some of the sound that Scott, McClean, Dougans were developing on it.
Morgan invited them to his studio in Ealing London and here Colin Scott, Mark McClean and Brian Dougans recorded Humanoid. The Evil Otto sample “Humanoid” from the "Berzerk" videogame, which provided the name of the track, was recorded by Dougans in an arcade on Ealing High St.
Originally called “Humanoid” to be put out by Stakker through Morgan Khans label Westside Records, it was released by Morgan as “Stakker Humanoid” by “Humanoid” to avoid copyright issues.
A dispute had arisen between Dougans and Scott / McClean and before the record was in the shops Stakker and Dougans split. It was the end of their working relationship. It had lasted just over a year.
The soundtrack for Eurotechno was later totally remixed and overdubbed with new sections added by Colin Scott and Simon Monday in the digital studio that Colin Scott and mark McClean had set up in the Goldcrest building in Great Pultney St in Soho.
This soundtrack is on the Eurotechno video and on the CD recently released by rephlex.

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