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Recoil is tagged as: electronic, experimental, trip-hop, alternative, electronica

Recoil is the project of Alan Wilder, formerly a member of Depeche Mode. Born on 1st June 1959, he is a classically-trained musician and renowned contemporary music producer.
Recoil was born in 1986 as a two-track experimental EP. Simply entitled ‘1 + 2’, this collection of primitive demos caught the attention of Mute Records label boss Daniel Miller and was inconspicuously released as a mini-album on 12” vinyl.  An album, ‘Hydrology’, soon followed in 1988 and both were eventually re-issued by Mute on CD as ‘Hydrology plus 1+2’.  These early Recoil recordings revealed Alan’s position as a pioneer in the newly emerging world of sampling technology and demonstrated how he could turn the Depeche sound around to create something entirely new.  Wilder described the project at the time as “… an antidote to Depeche Mode; a way to alleviate the frustrations of always working within a pop format”. 
Almost immediately, Wilder found himself back in the studio to record what would become the most successful Depeche Mode album to date,‘Violator’. It wasn’t until the band finally allowed themselves an extended break after the enormously successful ‘World Violation’ tour that Alan could return to Recoil - not, how...
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Top 10 Recoil Songs
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Jezebel
Allelujah
Breath Control
Strange Hours
Prey
Vertigen
Shunt
Drifting
Faith Healer
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Top 10 Recoil Albums
Liquid
Unsound Methods
SubHuman
Bloodline
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