Dummy

1994 Trip Hop

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Tracklist

A1 Mysterons 4:56
A2 Sour TimesBrooks, Schifrin, Turner 4:05
A3 StrangersShorter 3:49
A4 It Could Be Sweet 4:10
A5 Wandering StarDickerson, Miller, Brown, Scott, Goldstein, Oskar, Jordan, Allen 4:46
B1 Numb 3:43
B2 Roads 4:56
B3 Pedestal 3:30
B4 BiscuitRay 4:34
B5 Glory BoxHayes 4:49

Musicians

Adrian UtleyBass, Guitar, Producer, Written-By, Theremin (Thereman), Arranged By (Strings Arrangement), Strings, Organ (Hammond)
Clive DeamerDrums
Geoff BarrowElectric Piano (Rhodes), Programmed By, Written-By, Drums, Arranged By (Strings Arrangement)
Dave McDonaldEngineer, Nose Flute
Beth GibbonsVocals, Written-By
Neil SolmanElectric Piano (Rhodes), Organ (Hammond)
Gary BaldwinOrgan (Hammond)
Strings UnlimitedStrings
Andy HagueTrumpet

Production

PortisheadProducer

Also credited. Written-By: Henry Brooks, Lalo Schifrin, Otis Turner, Wayne Shorter, B.B. Dickerson, Charles Miller, Harold Brown, Howard Scott, Jerry Goldstein, Lee Oskar, Lonnie Jordan, Papa Dee Allen, Johnnie Ray, Isaac Hayes. Management: Fruit. Drum Programming: Richard Newell.

Release notes

Sleeve is semi-gloss flat colour sleeve with full-colour gloss-varnish inset image.
Label and Cover include “Marketed in France by Barclay and in Germany by Metronome Musik/GmbH”
Quotation marks around “Dummy” on label are of the COMPLIMENTARY, ‘66’ ‘99’ variety
Spine reads PORTISHEAD DUMMY 828 522 - 1 GO! BEAT [not GO!! BEAT]
The inner sleeve is thick paper/thin card and has a thumb cut-out on the opening at the back.
Some copies came with a Portishead subscription postcard.

All tracks recorded at State of Art and Coach House Studios, Bristol, with additional mixing at Moles Studio, Bath.

The ‘corrected’ version of this release can be found here
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MISPRINT:
The following samples are wrongly attributed (later fixed for ALL subsequent releases);

Biscuit: Warner Chappell Music/Philips later changed to Carlyle Music Publishing/Sony Music Entertainment
Glory Box: “Isaac Moods” later changed to “Ike’s Rap II”. Rondor Music/Fantasy Records later changed to Rondor Music (London) Ltd./Under License from Fantasy Inc.
Strangers: MCA Music/CBS Records later changed to MCA Music/Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Wandering Star: Polygram Music/ABC Records later changed to Avenue Records/Polygram Music Publishing
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Track A2 contains samples from “Danube Incident” written & performed by Lalo Schifrin and a percussion sample from “Spin-It Jig” written by Henry Brooks and Otis Turner performed by Smokey Brooks
Track A3 contains samples from “Elegant People” written & performed by Weather Report
Track A5 contains samples from “Magic Mountain” written & performed by Eric Burdon & War
Track B4 contains samples from “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” written & performed by Johnnie Ray
Track B5: This release states samples are from “Isaac Moods”, the actual samples are from “Ike’s Rap II” written & performed by Isaac Hayes

©1994 Go! Discs Limited.
℗1994 Go! Discs Limited.
Runouts are etched, except for the parts “DFI 94 6” and “828 522 B1” which are stamped (and of which the latter is partly stamped on the label edge).