Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions)

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Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions)
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Studio album by
Released18 December 1995 (1995-12-18)
Recorded47 August 1995, Iceland
Genre
Length59:59
Label Mille Plateaux
Producer Alec Empire
Alec Empire chronology
Generation Star Wars
(1994)
Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions)
(1995)
Hypermodern Jazz
(1996)
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Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions) (commonly known as just Low on Ice) is the second solo studio album by German electronic artist Alec Empire, the third of five of his to be released on the Mille Plateaux label. Issued in 1995, Empire recorded the album over three days in August that same year during a tour of Iceland with his band Atari Teenage Riot. [2] Primarily written outdoors in tents and recorded onto analog tapes, [3] [4] the record is noted for its ambient overtone, [1] [4] [5] something not commonly associated with Empire's music.

Contents

Plans were announced of a triple-CD reissue containing unreleased archive material, [6] this deluxe reissue was released in December 2020 through Alec Empire's website as Low on Ice (The Trilogy). An NFT edition featuring the same track list and different cover art was released later through OpenSea. "22:24", "Low on Ice", "metall Dub" and both untitled tracks would later be included on the compilation album The Geist of Alec Empire . [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alec Empire

Disc One: Low On Ice
No.TitleLength
1."37.2 Pt.1"7:23
2.Untitled6:44
3."20 (1)"4:09
4."20 (2)"2:17
5."22:24"6:24
6.Untitled6:24
7."Low on Ice"7:55
8."Metall Dub"7:00
9."2572"4:20
10."We Were Burnt"4:13
11."37.2 Pt.2" (not included in deluxe edition)0:56
Total length:59:59
Disc Two: The Precipice
No.TitleLength
1."The Report"7:11
2."her shadows"5:15
3."ce:isir"8:35
4."d ew"8:37
5."Metall Dub Zwei"5:03
6."8:03am"5:03
7."Eruption"7:37
8."wolfs mensch"13:22
9."error control"4:30
Total length:65:13
Disc Three: The White Zone
No.TitleLength
1."Verusche Radio Signal"8:26
2."icicles"6:36
3."as the temperature decreased"9:30
4."Todesstarre"2:45
5."it found a host"10:29
6."Verloren"6:31
Total length:44:17
169:29 (total)

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