The Technos actually started out as the Techno Twins in the secular market. They released their first album in 1982 with the single “Falling in love again” which did very well in the European market. The band is generally credited with being the origin of the term “techno” which is something to be proud of. It’s pretty cool when your band name becomes a international term for a style of music. Anyway, after a couple of fairly successful secular releases they put out this one and only Christian release. It is actually a little different in that the songs are social/political oriented and they touch on subjects that weren’t often touched on by Christian artists. I don’t know if this was a popular album or not but I really like it.
Tracklist
1 – Friends & Frontiers – 4:02
2 – Dare To Dance – 3:47
3 – Share Food Like The Bees – 3:29
4 – Beat The Wings – 3:37
5 – Mechanical Ballet – 4:23
6 – Half A Story – 3:39
7 – War: One Voice – 4:18
8 – Pioneer´s Song – 4:02
9 – Walk Into The Light – 4:27
10 – What You Believe – 3:33
Credits
Backing Vocals – Bev Sage, Carolyn Nieto, Cynthia Rizas, Martin Bass, Steve Fairnie
Drums – David Prater
Engineer – Doug Oberkirker
Engineer [Assistant] – Dan Rudin
Guitar – Ronnie Drayton
Keyboards, Arranged By – George Small
Photography By – David Rose
Producer – Joey Powers
Saxophone [Sax] – Sydell Carter
Companies, etc.
Recorded At – Grand Slam Studios
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Refuge Records
Copyright © – Refuge Records
Distributed By – Mainroads Music Inc
This is a difficult album to assess for me. Steve and Bev went to the US to record, and I think they regretted having little control over it’s creation. The musical style is, IMHO, quite un-Techno like. I really can’t stand the drumming which is delivered in a single relentless manner as though he was in a metal band. When I hear the demos (which are much more Techno like, with idiosyncratic instrumentation and even Fairnie’s banjo on Share Food like the Bees) I much prefer them. Bev liked the Paul Field song a lot, but I still liked the outtake better. Two of these earlier versions ended up on a Sticky label compilation [I think Friends & Frontiers and European Soldier] This was the last recording from the Technos, though Fairnie did collaborate (c1991) with Charlie Irvine on a single track called Sons of Adam which was a dace mix of rhythms and speach taken from old-time sermons and is glorious.