“Love Action” by The Human League

"Love Action (I Believe in Love)" hit British shops on Virgin in July 1981 and gave the Human League their first UK top 10 single, stalling only at number three. Philip Oakey wrote it with keyboard player Ian Burden and sings lead, while Jo Callis, Philip Adrian Wright and Burden pile on the analogue synthesizers.

Producer Martin Rushent ran the machines, handling drum machines, sequencing and programming with David M. Allen, his engineer and programmer at the time. The standout sound on the record came from Callis's guitar: his strumming was routed through the envelope shaper and pitch-to-voltage converter on a Roland System 700 modular synth, so the guitar itself triggered a choppy, twitchy synth patch. It followed "The Sound of the Crowd" and came before "Open Your Heart".

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