HISTORY
TREK WITH QUINTRONIC, THE DUO OF PAUL WILCOX (TREK) AND DAVID KANE (QUINTRONIC), WAS FORMED FROM THE ASHES OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK BAND MASQUE IN 1979. PAUL AND DAVID WROTE AND RECORDED TWO PIONEERING, UNIQUE ELECTRONIC ROCK ALBUMS: “TREK W/ QUINTRONIC LANDING” LP IN 1980 AND “TREK W/ QUINTRONIC” LP IN 1981. BOTH ALBUMS WERE RECORDED AT MARK CUSTOM RECORDING STUDIO AND WERE RELEASED BY JEM RECORDS.
TREK WITH QUINTRONIC IS PREDOMINATELY AN ELECTRONIC SOUND, UTILIZING A NUMBER OF SYNTHESIZERS, KEYBOARDS, EFFECT PEDDLES, MOOG TAURUS PEDDLES, 6 AND 12 STRING ELECTRIC GUITARS, ALONG WITH AN ELECTRIC SYNTH GUITAR.
UPON REQUEST AND APPROVAL GERMANY’S ANNA LOGUE RECORDS IN RE-RELEASED A COLLECTION CONTAINING ALL SONGS FROM BOTH ALBUMS IN 2017. THE SAME WAS DONE BY DARK ENTRIES RECORDS IN THE USA IN 2018. THEY RE-RELEASED BOTH ALBUMS AS A DOUBLE VINYL RECORD.
FAST FORWARD TO 2023, PAUL WORKED CLOSELY WITH INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PRODUCER AND SOUND ENGINEER DAVID LAWRIE TO REVISIT SOME OF THE ORIGINAL TREK WITH QUINTRONIC SONGS ALONG WITH NEW MATERIAL, SPANNING A PERIOD OF OVER 40 YEARS OF MUSIC. ALL SONGS, INCLUDING NEVER RELEASED SONGS, WERE RESTORED, REPAIRED, REMIXED, AND REMASTERED, WHATEVER IT TOOK TO PRESENT THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF THE BEST OF TREK WITH QUINTRONIC AND SUBSEQUENT MUSIC IN A DELUXE VINYL PACKAGE THE WAY IT SHOULD BE HEARD.
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