In March 1985, the Act released their first record on their own label with distribution by Sonet Records. The single "Dream Talk" had been recorded in Oslo and mixed in London by engineer Steve Smith and producer Henry Padovani. Padovani had been the first guitarist in the Police and was by now the European Vice President of I.R.S. Records: The leading UK and US independent label of the time with acts like R.E.M., the Cramps, the Fleshtones, the Go-Go's, Wall of Voodoo, the Alarm, the Lords of the New Church etc.