Refurbished Robots

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Refurbished Robots
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Compilation album by
KVRX Studios (various artists)
Released1999 (1999)

Refurbished Robots is compilation album released by KVRX Studios in 1999. The album was titled Local Live Volume 4 and is a mixture of tracks from artists featured on the station.

Track listing

  1. Dooms U.K. – "Spelunker Cave"
  2. Macha – "Light The Chinese Flower"
  3. Sounds of Soviet Lightning – "Johnny Lion"
  4. Explosions in the Sky – "Remember Me as a Time of Day"
  5. The Futants – "Thinking Giants"
  6. Middle Finger – "Freudian Cock"
  7. Mariachi Estrella – "Chango Wongo"
  8. Woozy Helmet – "Whistle Happy"
  9. Mazarin – "Wheats"
  10. The Swells – "When the Light Goes Out"
  11. L'Uisine – "Glitch"
  12. Spaceheads – "Fall of the Machine Empire"
  13. Blue Noise Band – "Visitor II"
  14. Cinders – "Fast Clouds, Slow Moon"
  15. Palaxy Tracks – "The Golden Days"
  16. The Barbers – "Tens And Twenties"

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