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Fad Gadget

London, United Kingdom • 1956-09-08 – 2002-04-03

Fad Gadget is credited on 119 releases across 49 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1980–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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119

Pressings credited

49

Albums

5

Decades active

25

In collections

Biography

Francis John Tovey (8 September 1956 – 3 April 2002), known also by his stage name Fad Gadget, was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both new wave and early industrial music, fusing pop-structured songs with mechanised experimentation. As Fad Gadget, his music was characterised by the use of synthesizers in conjunction with sounds of found objects, including drills and electric razors. His bleak, sarcastic and darkly humorous lyrics were filled with biting social commentary toward subjects such as machinery, industrialisation, consumerism, human sexuality, mass media, religion, domestic violence and dehumanization, often sung in a deadpan voice.

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Credited work

119 releases · 49 albums · active 1980–2022

  • Performance · 306
  • Other credits · 38
  • Engineering · 23
  • Production · 5

Studios: Blackwing Studios · Hansa Tonstudios · RMS Studios · The Garden

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