Vinyl88

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Vinyl88
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Compilation album by
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2008 (2008-09-16)
Studio
Genre
Length75:39
Label Rosehip/Pulseblack
Producer
Die Warzau chronology
Convenience
(2004)
Vinyl88
(2008)
Borghild
(2009)

Vinyl88 (or Vinyl88: Not the Best of 20 Years) is a compilation album by Die Warzau, released on September 16, 2008, by Pulseblack and Rosehip Records. [1] It was released to celebrate the band's two decades of activity and comprised remixed versions of some of their best known songs with previously unreleased tracks. [2] In 2009 the band agreed to license the songs "Welcome to America" (Red Metal Mix) and "Hitler's Brain" from the album to remixgalaxy.com, a website that allowed access to multi-track forms for remixing under a non-commercial personal-use license. [3]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Van Christie, Dan Evans, Abel Garibaldi and Jim Marcus, except "Glare" by Marcel Henderson and "Kleen" by Mike Gray.

No.TitleLength
1."Insect" (Butterfly Re Edit)4:47
2."Land of the Free" (Red Metal Mix)5:27
3."Born Again" (Reborn Edit)4:30
4."All Good Girls" (Girls Redrawn KMFDM Remix)6:01
5."Glare" (Album Edit)4:33
6."Funkopolis" (To Le Funk Mix)5:45
7."Crusaders" (Mission to Mars Mix)4:45
8."Welcome to America" (Single Cell Remix)5:03
9."Kleen" (Cleaner Mix)5:05
10."Coming Down" (Black Ops Mix)3:59
11."Last Generation" (Rapture Re Edit)3:32
12."All Cut Up" (Twist and Scar Remix)3:37
13."Nitelight" (Medcated Mix)4:09
14."Smacktime"4:45
15."Permission" (Album Edit)4:23
16."Hitler's Brain"5:20

Personnel

Adapted from the Vinyl88 liner notes. [4]

Die Warzau

Additional performers

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States2008Rosehip/Pulseblack CD 890575003120, PX-000

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References

  1. "Die Warzau: Vinyl88 > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  2. Yücel, Ilker (May 1, 2012). "Jim Marcus InterView: Go, Going, Gone, Go Fight!". ReGen. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  3. Reed, Kyle (July 29, 2009). "RemixGalaxy.com Announces the Addition of Exclusive Content from Die Warzau". Newswire Today. Limelon Advertising, Co. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  4. Vinyl88 (booklet). Die Warzau. Chicago, Illinois: Rosehip/Pulseblack. 2008.CS1 maint: others (link)