Big Sounds of the Drags

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Big Sounds of the Drags
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 14, 1999
July 24, 2000 (reissue)
Recorded1999
Genre
Label
Producer Junkie XL
Junkie XL chronology
Saturday Teenage Kick
(1997)
Big Sounds of the Drags
(1999)
Radio JXL: A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin
(2003)
Singles from Big Sounds of the Drags
  1. "Check Your Basic Groove"
    Released: 1999
  2. "Zerotonine"
    Released: 2000
  3. "Action Radius"
    Released: 2000
  4. "Love Like Razorblade"
    Released: 2000

Big Sounds of the Drags is the second album by the Dutch electronic musician Junkie XL, released on Roadrunner Records in 1999.

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The tracks "Synasthesia", "Dance USA" and "Future in Computer Hell (Part II)" were included in the video games Test Drive: Overdrive (2002), and "Action Radius" in Need for Speed: Underground (2003). "Action Radius" was released as a single upon its re-release in 2000. "Zerotonine" was played over the end credits of the 2002 motion picture Buying the Cow .[ citation needed ]

Track listing

1999 edition

  1. "Check Your Basic Groove" (5:09)
  2. "Action Radius" (3:53)
  3. "Synasthesia" (7:41)
  4. "Power of Big Slacks" (3:25)
  5. "Zerotonine" (4:01)
  6. "Love Like Razorblade" (6:08)
  7. "Legion" (4:36)
  8. "Dance USA" (3:23)
  9. "Gettin' Lost" (6:18)
  10. "Black Jack" (3:07)
  11. "Next Plateau" (5:00)
  12. "Future in Computer Hell (Part II)" (21:45)

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2000 edition

  1. "Check Your Basic Groove" (5:07)
  2. "Synasthesia" (7:42)
  3. "Power of Big Slacks" (3:25)
  4. "Zerotonine" (4:02)
  5. "Love Like Razorblade" (6:07)
  6. "Legion" (4:36)
  7. "Disco 2000" (4:26)
  8. "Future in Computer Hell (Part II)" (7:16)
  9. "Bon Voyage" (7:05)
  10. "Power of Big Slacks (Reprise)" (11:06)
  11. "Gettin' Lost" (7:14)
  12. "Black Jack" (3:08)
  13. "Next Plateau" (4:51)

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Personnel

Junkie XL

Additional musicians

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References

  1. 1 2 "Junkie XL - Big Sounds Of The Drags". Discogs. Retrieved 2017-06-16.