I figured the duo deserved their own thread.
Just in time for the Brainwashed Archives deluxe CD reissues of Greater Than One. The site says they will be shipped Sept 1st, however I just got mine in the mail yesterday!
I haven't had a chance to play this or check out the extradigital content yet, but wow, these are very well designed and faithful to the original releases from whence they came.
"All The Masters Licked You" contains the initial demo tape and tons of bonus tracks.
"London" contains tons of bonus tracks, previously unreleased on CD or anywhere stuff, plus a DVD-lette of their videos.
"G-Force" is contains the album plus bonus tracks, the "I Don't Need God" and "Utopia" singles with their original CD Bonus tracks, and the "Joy" EP plus tons of bonus tracks to that.
All the original art is preserved, including the inner sleeve art.
And they're so effeciently made too. Three hard slick CD cardboard inserts instead of slightly bigger thinner sleeve, itself covered in plastic. All manufactured CDs that take up less space than three jewel cases on a shelf.
Now if the remastering/audio is as well done as the artwork, I will be really really really happy. (in which case, sell off the Wax Trax versions. Bless Wax Trax for putting most of this out in the first place, but if the remasters are well done, there's no point in having the Wax Trax CDs anymore, not even for the artwork, since that's all taken care of.)
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NOW I would love a similar packaging of the early 90s era of Wells and Newman! I would kill to have a GTO/Technohead/Tricky Disco box.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)
Alex, if you like GTO's "Pure", "The Bullfrog", "Love Is Everywhere", then you'd probably like the G-Force/Index-era stuff of Greater Than One, since it directly preceded "Pure".
Greater Than One were purposely(?) sprawly, so the standout tracks will do just that. Some tracks are duds ("Metal" for instance, as much as I want to like this track), but they work as a sum-of-the-parts thing.
If you dislike more obvious found-sound or opera/classical samples, then you may not care for Greater Than One, though. Maybe you'd like the much uglier "All The Masters Licked You" material instead, which isn't dancey at all (which was originally on the Side Effects label in 1987, via Graeme Revell and Brian Lustmord)
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:25 (seventeen years ago)
Chiming in to say Mackro is spot on with the excellence of the design of these reissues, I was thrilled when I saw them. A role model for how to do these things.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)
eight months pass...