A synthy slow 80's song that goes "dut dut" and sounds German?

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Back in the day in the Bay Area on the Quake FM and Live 105 they used to play this song that was melencholy and slow, and all I remember of the vocals was a male singer saying "dut!" and then "dut dut!". Who was that and when can I hear it again?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

"Da Da Da" by Trio?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

...not sure I'd call that melancholy, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

doot doot by freur

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

Man, ILM is awesome.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bigscreensatellite.co.uk/history.htm

go here for more info on the band... 2 members eventually found success when they changed their name to Underworld..

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Sounds a lot like "Doot Doot" by Freur to me.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Those Freur photos are tragic. I'd forgotten what a bunch of tarts they looked like.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

As you probably already know, they were Underworld.

― moley, Friday, 1 April 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Anyone heard this song recently? Wonder what it sounds like now. Haven't heard it since I was little and I quite liked it at the time (though the lyrics sounded dreadful even then).

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember it being slow...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

You're not thinking of 'Doop' are you Mark? ;o)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, woh!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

But you obviously are now.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

No, I'm thinking of "Reason is Treason" Kasabian.

"Tchungtchungtchungtchungtchungtchungtchungtchungtchunggg..."

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like you're pretty well tchung.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

I used to have all their (Freur's) early 7"s and 12"s. They were great! Well, apart from the singing being somewhat mannered to the point of being irritating. "Doot Doot" was good, but the follow up, "Matters of the heart", was even better, especially the 12" which had these 2 really fucked up short tracks tacked onto the end of it. One was this kind of dementedly synthesiser ditty, the other was a burst of bleak hawkwindish guitar noise. The main b-side was called "You're a Hoover" and was kind of '80's techno heavy rock. It was about their best track, I think. I sort of remember them getting a bit lame and characterless later on, though. I wouldn mind a CD comp with everything they recorded on it, you could probabaly fit the whole lot onto 2CDs. Perhaps they were the '80's equivalent of World of Twist, but then again, probably not.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

'doot doot' went to number one in new zealand.

― cb, Friday, 1 April 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

What I think is the weirdest thing:
- I hadn't heard the song since the eighties, but had been thinking about it lately.
- last night I posted to ILM about it, and whithin 3 minutes I had my answer: Freur.
- the very next thing, I sit down to watch the Vanilla Sky DVD, and it's on the soundtrack.

Well used, too. The song is as good as I remember it. The movie freaked me out, though, and I had weird dreams.

DOOT!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

That was an awesome song. Way more texture and mood than the bulk of stuff from that era. I didn't think much of the rest of the album that song was on.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

a friend of mine has the single! I remeber an interview with Underworld about the Freur days in some music tech mag. They said they went into the studio to record it and said to the engineer, 'show us what this studio can do'. Hence all the clever (for the time) effects and panning delays on the song. Apparently it became some kind of landmark record among studio engineers and producers for a while because of all that.

― moley, Friday, 1 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

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