Major Malfunction

Major Malfunction

Studio album by

Keith LeBlanc

Released

1986

Recorded

February 1986

Studio

Southern Studios, London, England

Genre

Funk, industrial, electro

Length

32:57

Label

World

Producer

Keith LeBlanc

Keith LeBlanc chronology

Major Malfunction
(1986)

Stranger Than Fiction
(1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Major Malfunction is the debut album of American drummer Keith LeBlanc, produced by Fats Comet (one of several aliases of Tackhead), and released in 1986 by World Records.^[2] The vinyl release plays continuously from beginning to end on sides A and B, while the World and Cleopatra CD releases index each side as a track. This production was ground breaking in 1986 and copied by many.^[3]

Despite the almost universal reference to this album as Major Malfunction, the original cover showed Major Malfuction as the title. This was corrected on the Select Cuts reissue.

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Track listing

All tracks are written by Keith LeBlanc

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get This/Major Malfunction/Heaven on Earth/Object - Subject (Breakdown's Not Enough)"	17:16
2.	"I'll Come Up with Something/M.O.V.E./Technology Works Dub/You Drummers Listen Good"	15:41

Cleopatra Records bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
3.	"Mad Years"	9:28

The Cleopatra version was erroneously mastered, with Side 2 as track 1 and vice versa.

Select Cuts track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get This"	2:43
2.	"Major Malfunction"	4:47
3.	"Heaven on Earth"	4:31
4.	"Object-Subject (Breakdown's Not Enough)"	5:13
5.	"I'll Come Up With Something"	3:27
6.	"M.O.V.E."	0:48
7.	"Technology Works Dub"	5:42
8.	"You Drummers Listen Good"	4:41
9.	"Ending"	1:00
10.	"Einstein" (dub version)	2:43
11.	"Mechanical Movements" (dub version)	2:43
12.	"Old Beat" (Master mix)	4:47
13.	"Tick of Time" (instrumental version)	4:31

Personnel

Musicians

Keith LeBlanc – drums, percussion, keyboards, editing, engineering
Skip McDonald – guitar, keyboards, engineering
Nick Plytas – keyboards
Adrian Sherwood – sampler, programming, engineering, mixing
Doug Wimbish – bass guitar, keyboards, guitar
Dog – keyboards ("Move")

Technical personnel

Fats Comet – producer
Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah – percussion ("Move")

Charts

Charts (1986)	Peak position
UK Indie Chart^[4]	11

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom	1986	World	CD, LP	WR 005
United States	2003	Cleopatra	CD	CLP 1274-2
Germany	2003	Select Cuts	CD	SELECT CUTS 2023

References

^ Dougan, John. "Major Malfunction". Allmusic. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
^ Parker, David (2001). "Album: Keith LeBlanc - 'Major Malfunction'". skysaw.org. Archived from the original on 2003-05-06. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
^ "Keith LeBlanc: Biography". tackhead.com. 2004. Archived from the original on September 19, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved September 30, 2014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

External links

Major Malfunction at Discogs (list of releases)

v t e Keith LeBlanc
Studio albums	Major Malfunction Stranger than Fiction Raw Time Traveller Freakatorium
Compilations	Stop the Confusion (Global Interference)
Singles	"No Sell Out" Support the Miners
with Strange Parcels	Disconnection
Related	Tackhead

v t e Tackhead
Keith LeBlanc Skip McDonald Adrian Sherwood Doug Wimbish Gary Clail Bernard Fowler
Studio albums	Tackhead Tape Time (1987) Friendly as a Hand Grenade (1989) Strange Things (1990) For the Love of Money (2014)
Remix albums	Tackhead Sound Crash (2006)
Compilations	Power Inc. Vol. 1 (1994) Power Inc. Vol. 2 (1994) Power Inc. Vol. 3 (1997)
Singles	"What's My Mission Now?" "Mind at the End of the Tether" "The Game (You'll Never Walk Alone)" "Reality" "Ticking Time Bomb"
as The Maffia	As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade (1985) Mark Stewart (1987) Metatron (1990) Control Data (1996) Edit (2008)
as Fats Comet	"Stormy Weather" "Rockchester"
as Strange Parcels	Disconnection (1994)
Related	Discography Dub Syndicate Jungle Funk Living Colour

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