PETER BAUMANN Playland Pleasure (1981)

Peter Baumann keyboards, synthesizers, computer synthesizer programming, vocals, Carsten Bohn keyboards, Mike Dawe drums, Ritchie Fliegler guitar, John Tropea rhythm guitar, Linda Kay Brynan backing vocals Baumann needs no intro, being one of the electronic music greats after his work in Tangerine Dream and beyond. His 1981 album Repeat Repeat is a standout crossover between electrobotica and mainstream rock, with live drums and some American popissue guitar work alongside the dynamic hypersequencing of Andreas Bahrdt s Le Bart computer sythesizer also heard on Patrick Mimran s (Axxess) Novellas For the Moons album. Repeat Repeat was produced by Baumann and Robert Palmer, who had some major chart hits in the late 70s, early 80s and who also worked with Gary Numan. It was recorded in New York, London and the Bahamas, and one of the engineers was Jan Hammer who later made his own big splash in film soundtracks.