Coincidence vs Fate is the fourth album released by Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

 musician Paul Haig

Paul Haig

Paul Haig is a Scottish indie composer, musician and singer. He was originally a member of 1980s post-punk band Josef K who were signed to the Postcard record label...

. The album was released by Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 independent label, Les Disques Du Crepuscule

Les Disques du Crepuscule

Les Disques Du Crépuscule was a Belgian independent record label.The label was started in 1980 by Michel Duval and Annik Honoré, residents of Brussels who had previously organised and promoted concerts in the city. Initial releases were by Factory Records artists, and were labelled as being...

 in 1993.

The album was originally recorded in New York

New York

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 and Chicago

Chicago

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 in 1989. The album was financed by Virgin Records

Virgin Records

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 subsidiary Circa who had released Paul's previous album Chain. After the lead single, "I Believe in You", failed to make any impression on the charts, Circa decided to cut their losses and the album - to be called Right On Line - was shelved. As they had done in the past, Les Disques Du Crepuscule came to the rescue, stepped in and bought the rights.

The album has a very heavy Chicago

Chicago

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 house sound. Production credits include Lil Louis

Lil Louis

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, Mantronik and The Chimes

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Coincidence vs Fate was re-released in 2003 by LTM

LTM

LTM Recordings is an independent record label founded in Britain in 1983, and best known for high quality, well-packaged reissues of artists and music from 1978 to the present day, as well as modern classical and avant garde composition...

. The re-released CD has different artwork to the original release and used the same image as Haig's 1990 single, "I Believe In You".

Track listing - 1993 release

1. "I Believe In You"
2. "Flight X"
3. "Born Innocence"
4. "My Kind"
5. "Si Senorita"
6. "Right On Line"
7. "Out Of Mind"
8. "Surrender"
9. "Stop & Stare"
10. "The Originator"
11. "1959"

Track listing - 2003 release

1. "I Believe In You"
2. "Flight X"
3. "Born Innocence"
4. "My Kind"
5. "Si Senorita"
6. "Right On Line"
7. "Out Of Mind"
8. "Surrender"
9. "Stop & Stare"
10. "Coincidence Vs Fate"
11. "Dub Organiser"
12. "The Originator"
13. "1959"
14. "Flight X (Long Flight Mix"
15. "I Believe In You (Mix)"