 Having previously scored a UK hit in 1978 with I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper, dance troupe Hot Gossip took the brave move of recruiting British Electric Foundation's Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh - recent ex-members of Sheffield electronic synth-pop pioneers Human League - to produce their debut album Geisha Boys & Temple Girls in 1981. Ditching most of the material that had already been recorded with producer Richard Burgess, Marsh and Ware decided to utilise material they had co-written for The Human League (Morale, The Word Before Last and Circus Of Death from their debut album Reproduction); their latest project Heaven 17 (Soul Warfare and Geisha Boys & Temple Girls); a song from an offshoot of The Human League called The Men, who had released one single on Virgin (I Don't Depend On You) - and a couple of other cover versions which included a song from the seminal Brian Eno produced Talking Heads album Remain In Light (Houses In Motion), and one from Sting, to create this electronic curiosity which is reissued for the first time on Repressed.Soul Warfare / House Of Motion / I Don't Depend On You / Burn For You / Geisha Boys & Temple Girls / Morale / World Before Last / Circus Of Death
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