Doot-Doot is the debut studio album

Studio album

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 by Freur

Freur

Freur was a band featuring Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, who went on to found the successful electronic act Underworld. It was their second band, following their art school collaboration, The Screen Gemz.-History:...

 and was released in 1983. The cassette

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 version of the album included four extra tracks.

CD release

The album was unavailable on CD

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 until the 1993 reissue

Reissue

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 by Oglio Records

Oglio Records

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 in the United States

United States

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. The album has since been reissued twice in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, in 2000 by Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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 and subsequently in 2009 by Cherry Red Records

Cherry Red

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 as Get Us out of Here/Doot-Doot - which includes both Freur albums on one CD.

CBS Records LP

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: CBS 25522-1

CBS Records Cassette: CBS 25522-4

1993 - Oglio Records CD: OGL 81566-2

2000 - Columbia Records CD: 498247 2

2009 - Cherry Red Records CD: CDM RED 419^*

^* Tracks 1-10 taken from the album Get Us out of Here

Get Us Out of Here

Get Us out of Here is the second and final studio album by Freur and was released in the Netherlands and Germany in 1986. The cassette version of the album included five extra tracks.- CD release :...

.

Additional musicians

• Andy Sheppard
  Andy Sheppard
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   - soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
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   and tenor saxophone
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   on "Runaway"
• Pino Palladino
  Pino Palladino
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   - fretless bass
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   and Chapman Stick
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   on "Theme from the Film of the Same Name"

Production

• Freur and John Hudson - producer
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• Freur and Alex Burak - producer "Doot-Doot"
• Freur - producer "Hold Me Mother"
• John Hudson - engineer
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• Pat Stapley and John Hudson - engineer "Runaway"
• John Hudson and John Etchells - engineer "Tender Surrender" and "Steam Machine"
• Simon Smart and John Hudson - engineer "Matters of the Heart"
• John Hudson and Rob Parr - engineer "Hold Me Mother"
• Pete Suthers - electronic research development
• Recorded at Point Studios, Ridge Farm, Jam, Abbey Road and Mayfair
• Mixed at Mayfair
• Brian Griffin - front cover/inner sleeve photographs
• Simon Fowler - group photograph