I featured Hard Corps back in the original days of this blog. As we are back into an electronic groove, I though lossless re-rips would be appropriate. Here's what I said last time (copied from the very same pages)...
Hard Corps were not French, they were actually from Brixton, South London. Hugh Ashton, Robert Doran and Clive Pierce, were introduced to chanteuse Regine Fetet, who although having never sung before, had an enigmatic, fragile, human voice which brought alive the cold, pounding machined music the three British sound engineers were creating. With influences as far and wide as Mozart and Kraftwerk working in unison with a heavily accentuated French vocal, the result was magnificent and unique. A 12" white label containing the hammering rhythmic attack of Dirty and the softer, melodic, Kraftwerkian pulse of Respirer (To Breathe) was circulated around London's dancefloors.
Their ill-fated dealings with major label giants Polydor which followed, gave the band a chance to work with a couple of their most most favoured and respected producers, Martin Rushent and Mute supremo, Daniel Miller. These sessions provided the public with just one single due to the labels non-promotion, Je Suis Passée, likely their finest work, emerged in an array of major league formats; seven and twelve inch extended mix and elongated beats and pieces of the Hard Mix. Oddly enough it was the French Vocal version on Rushent's own Immaculate label which trickled into the shops just before the familiar logo-sleeved chart contender. The band went on a major tour with Depeche Mode in 1988, before finally disintegrating. A compilation of their work was released on 400 Blows' Concrete Productions label at the turn of the decade.
Hard Corps - Dirty c/w Respirer (To Breathe)
Ripped from a 7" vinyl single released on Survival Records (SUR 026) in 1984 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.
A. Dirty
AA. Respirer (To Breathe)
Hard Corps - To Breathe
Ripped from a 7" vinyl single released on Sonoscope Records (HARD 2) in 1985 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.
A. To Breathe
B. Metal And Flesh
I seem to have misplaced my Je Suis Passee 7" but have prepared another archive which is hiding in the comments. The original mix of that single easily surpasses the various overworked remixes which also appeared. It's full seven minute original version was included on the Metal & Flesh compilation.
