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  Type Album
  Artist Dalek I Love You
  Cover Compass2jpg
  Background orange
  Released June 1980
  Recorded Rockfield Studios, Monmouth Amazon Studios, Liverpool
  Genre Synth Pop
  Length 40:14
  Label Back Door/ Phonogram
  Producer The Blitz Brothers
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  This Album '' Compass Kumpas ''<br />(1980)
  Next Album '' Dalek I Love You ''<br />(1983)


''Compass Kumpas'' aka '''''Compass kum'pəs''''' was the first album from Dalek I Love You . It was released in June of 1980 by Back Door/ Phonogram records.

Sounding like a combination of early OMD , Gary Numan and Brian Eno , the album received fairly good reviews upon its release. The NME called the album "refreshingly wry and friendly". It reached #54 on the UK pop charts.

The album was ultimately ignored outside of the UK , and before long, Alan Gill dismantled the band to join The Teardrop Explodes .

The Album still maintains a reasonable Cult Following , and the single "Destiny (Dalek I Love You)" remains popular among Doctor Who fans for its oblique lyrics referencing the show's menacing villains, the Dalek s.

As Of 2005 , the album is long out of print.


TRACK LISTING

Side 1 – Topsy
# "The World" – 2:27
# "8 Track" – 2:27
# "Destiny (Dalek I Love You)" – 3:37
# "A Suicide" – 2:53
# "The Kiss" – 2:00
# "Trapped" – 4:00
# "Two Chameleons" – 3:18

Side 2 – Turvy
# "Freedom Fighters" – 2:08
# "You Really Got Me" – 1:56
# "Mad" – 1:48
# "Good Times" – 2:07
# "We're All Actors" – 2:52
# "Heat" – 3:11
# "Missing 15 Minutes" – 5:36
  • The 1989 CD re-release featured the following bonus tracks:

  • # "Astronauts (Have Landed on the Moon)" – 3:27 ( B-side to ''Heartbeat'')

# "Happy" – 2:33 ( B-side to 1980 ''Dalek I Love You'' single)
# "This is My Uniform" – 3:13 ( B-side to 1980 ''Dalek I Love You'' single)
# "Heartbeat" – 4:01 ( 1981 Single)


ALBUM CREDITS

Dalek I are Alan Gill and Dave Hughes

With:

  • Chris Hughes: Additional drums, percussion and fx

  • Hugh Jones: Bass on 'Heat'

  • Ken Peers: Drums on 'You Really Got Me'

  • Dave Bates: Additional backing vocals


Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth / Amazon Studios, Liverpool, by Hugh Jones / Frazer Henry.

All tracks written by Gill and Hughes except "You Really Got Me" by Ray Davies

Thanks to everyone associated with the Dalek I Love You group

Produced by: The Blitz Brothers

Turvy 2, 7 produced by Dalek I for God Productions