

Or parallax mapping with, for instance, Yanfly's Grid-Free Doodads plugin. Pigs and Battleships is a vastly underappreciated post-punk album of the female and funky variety. It gets into the mid-’80s Factory electro disco sound and the Latin-flavoured lounge jazz one, but if you liked the post-punk from the early ’80s that wasn’t just white boys with guitars, you will be well pleased with this. “Fela Kuti meets Kraftwerk somewhere between Manchester and Rotterdam,” as Gonnie Rietveld put it. The one video I could find, for early single “Tingle”, from the June 1985 tape Factory Shorts (FACT 137) Gonnie Rietveld, City Life 9-23 February 1983 Mike, Gonnie, Simon and Barry, by Kevin Cummins They also just happened to presage most of UK acid house. Quando Quango were a Factory Records band, with links to several others. They were formed by Hillegonda “Gonnie” Rietveld and Mike Pickering in Rotterdam in 1981, relocating to Manchester in 1983. Their first drummer, Gonnie’s brother Reinier, stayed in Rotterdam, so they added Simon Topping from A Certain Ratio, who had just been training in Cuban percussion.

They later added Derek Johnson of 52nd Street and then Derek’s brother Barry, formerly of Sweet Sensation and later of Aswad.
