Slayers Bay Blues

Last updated February 22, 2019

Slayers Bay Blues is the third album of Japanese band Electric Eel Shock and was released in 1999.

In 1999, Electric Eel Shock (EES) recorded Slayers Bay Blues on a multitrack recording, and pressed enough copies to take to the road for their first gigs abroad. They had lined up a handful of dates in and around New York City, including CBGB,^[1] with their friends^[1]^[2] Peelander-Z who had relocated there some time earlier.^[1] The gigs were a big success, and the handful of dates that were planned turned into an East Coast tour.

Electric Eel Shock (EES) are a three-piece garage rock band, formed in Tokyo in 1994. They first toured the United States in 1999 and have been touring the world ever since.

Multitrack recording (MTR)—also known as multitracking, double tracking, or tracking—is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole. Multitracking became possible in the mid-1950s when the idea of simultaneously recording different audio channels to separate discrete "tracks" on the same reel-to-reel tape was developed. A "track" was simply a different channel recorded to its own discrete area on the tape whereby their relative sequence of recorded events would be preserved, and playback would be simultaneous or synchronized.

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Track listings

This track listing corresponds to the Micro Music, Double Peace Recording release of Slayer's Bay Blues.

All tracks written by Electric Eel Shock

Number	Title	Length
1	"Turbo Slayer"	3:52
2	"I'm Not"	1:46
3	"Puma"	2:43
4	"Orange Is Back!"	2:03
5	"Let's Go To The Beach"	1:41
6	"Vegas Night"	3:28
7	"Heavy Metal Vegabond"	2:06
8	"Jumping Akihito"	3:20
9	"Overkill"	2:39
10	"Kaza-Machine"	1:10
11	"Bingo Shoot!"	1:54
12	"ポルケレス・ポリフォリオ"	3:02

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Japan	2000	Double Peace Recording / Micro Music	Stereo Compact Disc	MM-002

More about release

EES left their native Japan in 1999 to see what they could make of America and they have been on a near constant world tour ever since. EES paid their way by selling merchandise and their self recorded album Slayers Bay Blues at their gigs. Headlining a stage at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark was a key early event for the band. By 2004 EES had toured 27 countries around the world.^[3]

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References

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↑ Tanzer, Joshua. "Returning Japanese". OffOffOff. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
↑ Mormoto, Aki. "Biography". Electric Eel Shock. Wordpress. Retrieved 16 June 2017.

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[Westin1-1] 1 2 3 Westin, C. "Proper Magazine". Proper Magazine. ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[2] Tanzer, Joshua. "Returning Japanese". OffOffOff. Retrieved 16 June 2017.

[3] Mormoto, Aki. "Biography". Electric Eel Shock. Wordpress. Retrieved 16 June 2017.