On Fire (EP)

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On Fire EP
Alec Empire On Fire EP Cover.jpg
EP by
ReleasedDecember 7, 2007 (2007-12-07) [1]
Genre Electronic
Rock
Length44:50 (CD)
18:21 (Digital download)
Label Eat Your Heart Out Records
Producer Alec Empire
The Hellish Vortex
Alec Empire EP chronology
New World Order EP
(2001)
On Fire EP
(2007)
Limited edition CD packaging
Alec Empire On Fire EP.jpg

The On Fire EP is an EP by Alec Empire, released on December 7, 2007, from his album The Golden Foretaste of Heaven . It contains the title track, several remixes and all tracks from the single "Robot L.O.V.E.", previously issued on vinyl. Initially planned as a four-track digital download only release, it was also released as a ten track limited edition CD mounted on blue plexi-glass and sealed in a silver see-through plastic bag. [1] [2]

Contents

The song

"On Fire" first materialised as a b-side to the single "Gotta Get Out", from Empire's 2005 album Futurist . The track that appears on The Golden Foretaste of Heaven is a re-produced version sub-titled "The Hellish Vortex Sessions".

Track listing

CD

  1. "On Fire" (radio edit) - 4:31
  2. "On Fire" (Hellish Vortex club remix) - 5:12
  3. "Bug On My Windshield" (Berlin COC remix) - 3:52
  4. "On Fire" (Berlin electro remix) - 4:46
  5. "On Fire" (Hellish Vortex club remix alternative version) 5:12
  6. "Bug On My Windshield" (Berlin COC remix dub) 3:44
  7. "On Fire" (Berlin electro remix dub) - 4:46
  8. "Robot L.O.V.E." - 3:48
  9. "Ice" (dub) - 4:05
  10. "Naginita" - 4:54

Digital download

  1. "On Fire" (radio edit) - 4:31
  2. "On Fire" (Berlin electro remix) - 4:46
  3. "On Fire" (Hellish Vortex club remix) - 5:12
  4. "Bug On My Windshield" (Berlin COC remix) - 3:52

Notes

  1. 1 2 News, Eat Your Heart Out, last accessed 2008-01-27.
  2. Alec Empire: News Archived 2007-05-01 at the Wayback Machine , Gostimirović Music Management, last accessed 2008-01-27.

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