by Mark Nobes, chief editor
The 7" single featured "Passion Planet" as the B-side. The standard 12" featured four tracks; "You Take Me Up (Machines Take Me Over)" (7:33) and "Down Tools" (4:18) on the A-side, and "Leopard Ray" (3:50) and "Passion Planet" (3:44) on the B-side.
Four picture discs were also released by Arista Records, and three of these formed a jigsaw.
A wide range of instruments were played on the track. Alannah Currie played marimba and xylophone, Tom Bailey played synths, contrabass, melodica, harmonica and programmed the drums. Joe Leeway played congas and a Phrophet V analog synthesizer.
The single was produced by Alex Sadkin and the Thompson Twins frontman Tom Bailey.
The video features the band as prisoners, and we seem them in their cells and being forced to work on a mine. They can be seen shovelling sand in time to the music. It was directed by Dieter Trattmann, who also directed "Into The Gap Live", which won the award for "Best Live Concert" at the 1985 UK Music Video Awards.