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The BORG
12+ albums
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The Borg are an electro/darkwave, retro/progressive, two man composite of many influences and directions. Ed C: Keyboards, samples, instrumentation. Mark Bell: Vocal noises, samples, sound co ordination. Formed in 1999, in order to give a live performance of the ‘Numania EP’ (Are friends electric?, Replicas and We are so fragile.), which was released through Flag recordings in 1997. The three numan cover/remixes were recorded in 1993 and found favour with factions within the Numan community. We were approached by Frank Drake, who liked what we were doing and wanted to release the tracks. It should be noted that ‘the Numan bible’ (Electric Pioneer by Paul Goodwin), states, I am reliably informed.. that Frank was involved in the recording of the tracks (an early version of ‘Greenhaus’???) – he wasn’t. We are entirely to blame. It should also be noted we haven’t made a penny out of the release. We had stopped recording songs in 1993 and recorded ‘Are friends electric?’ as our last project. Frank phoned us (having heard it at various venues) in 1995 wanting to release it and it finally came together in 1997 and has followed us around ever since. We were asked to perform at Milton Keynes in 1999, supporting Dig. We recorded another two further Numan covers (Metal and Sleep by Windows) to fill a half hour set, which despite some difficulties with a rather bouncy stage, which gave our backing tracks a rather bad case of indigestion, still went down well. The name ‘the Borg’ was n
