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Welcome To The 21st Century |
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Everybody Loves U |
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Slave Trade |
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Alienation |
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Cyberthief |
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Up 4 It |
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X-Ray EyeZ |
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Spaced Out |
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Demon Seed |
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How Do You Dream, Little Caesar |
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Alien Christ |
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This first new Studio album from sputnik was programmed and recorded at Sputnikworld Studios in Somerset during 1990-2000 ...
"Pirate Space -the space where SuperHighwaymen, Musicians and Mavericks dance...the internet gave us back the power ... information is freedom .. communication one on one.... We watched Napster laugh at venture capital and old fashioned ideas about copyright and worried record companies.. we laughed at governments trying to catch lightning..... "
The internet changed our lives....and getting an apple G4 computer did too...suddenly we could record ourselves in our own studio...I had just built a studio in a barn at our house near Glastonbury in Somerset and suddenly we could record in our own space, away from everyone...
We needed to write new songs....the thing is I still love that beat.. we needed to capture the true madness of what was great about the early SSS.. the total dub guitar and that incessant big riff electronic beat..a huge panza tank that absolutely will not stop! BUT.....but this was 15 years since those early sputnik demos, and it was sooo important to capture that essence again..I always hate it when years after one of your favorite groups makes a new record and it sounds completely different, like sophisticated-euck..of course we had absorbed new ideas and technology.... we had to be creative - we couldnt just churn out retreads of the old sputnik tracks with new lyrics...its the 21 century.. when the music scene is more exciting and varied than ever..with sound manipulation now, an apple G4.. now anything is possible.......
So the samplers smoked, the Matrix was on the Video and X was listening to the stooges again... .X ray eyeZ was the first track we wrote, where X played live guitar and I played the dub effects as he played.it seemed a new exciting direction.
We wrote a lot of songs during 2000, a lot of tracks that we eventually discarded, tracks like "electronic rock and roll", "violence is Funky" and "Fashion Zoid"...but they were too like the early material from 86 and although the hardcore fans always want more of the same.
This was our most acomplished CD to date, sounding great and still fresh... Slave trade, everybody loves u , Alien Christ and Alienation became instant live classics....
we had learnt a lot....
Can't wait to hear it can u?..
Vocals and Guitars were recorded at Britannia Row studios in London and mixed on a Euphonics 3000 Digital desk by...
We even had to remix a couple of tracks to put more voice overs and samples on.the extended versions ( only available on this special pre release version of the CD...Available through Sputnikworld)