In the studio with Daniel Hunt

“Besides the pre-production in our own places we did some preparation and a little recording in a small, unremarkable, but very efficient, studio up in the Ménilmontant area of Paris, which was the happening area for labels and things like that then. After a week or so getting things together there we moved to the Palais des Congrès, the opposite edge of town, in Porte Maillot. It’s a huge modernist theatre and mall, built in 1974. Jagger recorded some of his ’80s solo stuff there. Duran Duran did Rio there, which thrilled me. We also found a 12” of Murray Head’s One Night In

Bangkok while scavenging around in the storeroom. As far as the main kit we used to make the album, I remember we had a Crumar Stratus vintage synth, and then a Roland SH-2, a Korg Polysix, as well as the MS-20 and MS-10, a Korg Delta. We also had a Vox Super Continental organ, and the main guitar was the Hayman 2020. Software-wise, we had Native Instruments’ Massive, which was relatively new at the time.”