Konnecting...

Collaborating since 1982, Simon Leonard and David Baker signed to Mute in 1984, and have been releasing albums ever since. Konnecting… showcases the pure pop side of the duo, offering a simple connection to their three incarnations: I Start Counting, Fortran 5 and Komputer. Konnecting… tracks the duo's output from the first Mute release, "Letters To A Friend" (I Start Counting, 1984, produced by Daniel Miller), through to the club hit, "Heart On The Line" (Fortran 5, mixed by Vince Clarke), the Midnight Cowboy sampling "Time To Dream" (1993, Fortran 5) through to Komputer's paean to Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space (Valentina, 1997) to the very British electronic pop/folk music of "Headphones And Ringtones" and "Like A Bird", from Komputer's 2007 release, Synthetik. Supporting Erasure in 1987 and collaborating with DJ Colin Faver, Thrash of The Orb, Rod Slater of the Bonzos and Neil Arthur of Blancmange, with remixes provided by the likes of Vince Clarke, Moby, Joey Negro, David Holmes and Pascal Gabriel, the duo supplied remixes for other artists including Erasure, Inspiral Carpets and Laibach. The release of Konnecting… I Start Counting, Fortran 5, Komputer celebrates the duo's revisiting of their previous incarnations in the live set, and looks forward to a forthcoming Komputer release.