Advance and Follow
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| Studio album by VNV Nation | ||||
| Released | 30 November 1995 (V1) 19 February 2001 (V2) |
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Futurepop EBM |
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| Label | Discordia / dependent | |||
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2001 re-release cover
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Advance and Follow is the first studio album by futurepop duo VNV Nation, released in 1995. Compared to the futurepop sound of their subsequent albums Advance and Follow has a middle era EBM sound with classical influences. In 2001 the album was re-released with updated production and redone vocals along with five bonus tracks.
Anthem has a sample from BBC's Richard Dimbleby's recorded impressions from when he visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp:
It also features two samples of Italian fascist propaganda mottos:
and:
Another historical quote is a sentence from British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's September 3rd 1939 declaration of war against Germany broadcast by BBC:
After Fire has samples taken from the movie Universal Soldier:
And from the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet:
Requiem QCN also features samples from Forbidden Planet:
Outremer also features samples from Universal Soldier:
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