Dubplates (Album)

Dubplates is the debut album by Cypriot art rock band Dubplates. It is referred to as "Number One" by fans.

Writing
Dubplates was written fairly quickly, starting and ending the writing process in July of 1988, around the time of the release of a compilation record by the band. The majority of the writing is nonsensical, contributing to the insanity of the album.

[[File:Mark_Moran.png|thumb|left|Moran in 1990, shortly before the release of the album.

Aged 25]]Most of the album was written by Marcus Moran, a fourth-generation Cypriot-American. He left the band soon after, and now lives in Kensington, London, still touring as a solo artist.

Moran's songwriting has been seen as one of the highlights of the record in many retrospective reviews, although it was originally met with mixed reviews.

Recording
As many of the shorter songs on the album were unwritten, the first month or so of the recording process was still spent coming up with ideas for how to open these songs and how to make them transition into longer pieces of music. It was something that Moran would come to describe as an "unorganized mess" and was the main reason that he left the band in 1989. Moran played guitar on this album and sung three songs.

Vocal duties were split by the band, if a member felt like they could sing a song on the record, they sung it. There are several takes of every song (with vocals) being sung by different members of the band. The band member that sung each song is credited in the tracklist on the back of the inner sleeve (inner booklet for CD editions.)

Tracklist

 * 1) Good Morning (0:41, no vocals)
 * 2) Waiting For The Train (4:29, sung by Moran)
 * 3) Brain Collection (3:29, sung by Lazarou)
 * 4) 010101010 (0:38, no vocals)
 * 5) Fork In Socket (5:59, sung by Matsouka)
 * 6) Meat (0:13, no vocals)
 * 7) I'm The Doctah Here! (2:02, no vocals)
 * 8) Squidder Boy (1:49, Thinking Fellers Cover, sung/shouted by Lazarou)
 * 9) Cupping My Hands (8:51, sung by Moran)
 * 10) One Way Ticket (3:15, sung by Matsouka)
 * 11) Good Afternoon (1:22, no vocals)
 * 12) Airline Food (3:01, sung by Lazarou)
 * 13) Thunder (5:53, sung by Lazarou)
 * 14) Love Explosion (1:12, sung by Lazarou)
 * 15) Maddening! (0:09, no vocals)
 * 16) Absolutely Maddening! (0:55, no vocals)
 * 17) Insanity! (5:32, sung by Lazarou)
 * 18) February  (1:12, no vocals)
 * 19) Swans (11:01, sung by Moran, Matsouka, Lazarou, Papaioannou)
 * 20) Good Evening and Goodnight (6:12, sung by Lazarou)
 * 21) If You're Still Awake (5:38, sung by Papaioannou)
 * 22) Let's Not (0:45, no vocals)
 * 23) Shingles (7:16, sung by Matsouka & Papaioannou)

Credits
Marius Papaioannou (guitar) Sotiris Lazarou (bass, tape loops) Androulla Matsouka (drums) Marcus Moran (songwriting, percussion, misc. instruments, sampling) ​​​​​​​All members (vocals)