Releases
Calendar
September 2009
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Love (Omnibus Edition)
The Cult
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The Pleasure Principle (Expanded Edition)
Gary Numan
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A Brief History of Love
The Big Pink
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Turn Me Ill (marcwithasee Remix)
Micachu & The Shapes
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Dominos
The Big Pink
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The XX
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East of Eden
Taken By Trees
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Friendly Fires (Expanded Edition)
Friendly Fires
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Antillas
El Guincho
August 2009
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Love (Expanded Edition)
The Cult
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Bird-Brains
tUnE-yArDs
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Everything Is New
Jack Penate
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BiRd-BrAiNs
tUnE-yArDs
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True Romance
Golden Silvers
July 2009
The Pleasure Principle (Expanded Edition) by Gary Numan
Released: Sep 22 2009
The Pleasure Principle (Expanded Edition)
Gary Numan’s solo debut album – up until this point he’d still been recording as Tubeway Army – signaled a major shift in his career. With The Pleasure Principle , Numan connected with the public consciousness in this period in ways that still resonate today.
The Pleasure Principle was the point where the singer became a huge international solo star, even reaching the Top 10 in the United States with ‘Cars’ and Top 20 with the album. The Pleasure Principle pioneered electronic pop music on a new scale – it was a much bigger success worldwide than Kraftwerk’s releases or anything from the influential but still relatively ‘culty’ Bowie/Eno Berlin trilogy. And the fact that it was different and had a major impact in US – Numan performed ‘Cars’ and ‘Praying To The Aliens’ in front of 40 million people on the Saturday Night Live Show – means that there’s a direct link from The Pleasure Principle to the new musical forms that were born in the USA over the next decade – namely hip hop, industrial and techno.
As the NME noted recently, ‘every hip-hop production titan ever – notably Dr Dre – has nicked the opening beats from the track ‘Films’. The likes of Timbaland and The Neptunes’ minimal pop – comprised of just exquisitely produced drums and simplistic synthlines – are heralded as being futuristic genius in the 21st century; The Pleasure Principle shows that Gary Numan was doing the same thing 25 years previously. His influence on hip-hop, while rarely recognized, is enormous. His influence on electronic music in general is unparalleled.’ When GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan covered ‘Films’ in 2008, he really was taking hip hop back to its roots as the track features one of the original break beats (in fact, Films appeared on the hugely influential Ultimate Breaks & Beats compilation series in the early 1980s).
In industrial music both Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) and Marilyn Manson have name checked Numan as a significant source of inspiration: ‘After hearing ‘Cars’ I knew I wanted to make music with synthesizers,’ says Reznor, ‘The Pleasure Principle is f***ing great because it’s so cold sounding.’ While techno pioneers ranging from Carl Craig to Juan Atkins were grabbed by this strange, futuristic music, creating a relationship between Numan and dance music that has spawned the likes of the Basement Jaxx’s ‘Where’s Your Head At’ (samples ‘M.E.’ from The Pleasure Principle) and the ‘Cars’-mutating ‘Koochy’ by Armand Van Helden.
Features of The Pleasure Principle (Expanded Edition):
•2 disc set packaged in a jewelbox with slipcase and a 16 page book featuring photographs
from The Pleasure Principle recording sessions and new liner notes.
•Newly remastered from original analogue tapes.
•Second disc containing unreleased demo recordings and studio out-takes.
CD1
Airlane
Metal
Complex
Films
M.E.
Tracks
Observer
Conversation
Cars
Engineers
CD2
Airlane (Demo version)
Metal (Demo version)
Complex (Demo version)
Films (Demo version)
M.E. (Demo version)
Tracks (Out-take mix)
Observer (Demo version)
Conversation (Demo version 2)
Cars (Demo version)
Engineers (Demo version)
Random (2009 Re-master)
Oceans (2009 Re-master)
Asylum (2009 Re-master)
Photograph (2009 Re-master)
Gymnopedie No.1 (Demo version)
Conversation (Demo Version 1)
M.E. (Out-take mix)
Tracklisting
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Airlane (Remastered 2009)
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Metal (Remastered 2009)
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Complex (Remastered 2009)
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Films (Remastered 2009)
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M.E. (Remastered 2009)
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Tracks (Remastered 2009)
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Observer (Remastered 2009)
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Conversation (Remastered 2009)
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Cars (Remastered 2009)
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Engineers (Remastered 2009)
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Airlane (Demo Version)
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Metal (Demo Version)
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Complex (Demo Version)
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Films (Demo Version)
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M.E. (Demo Version)
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Tracks (Out-take Mix)
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Observer (Demo Version)
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Conversation ( (Demo Version 2)
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Cars (Demo Version)
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Engineers (Demo Version)
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Random (Remastered 2009)
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Oceans (Remastered 2009)
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Asylum (Remastered 2009)
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Photograph (Remastered 2009)
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Gymnopédie No. 1 (Demo)
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Conversation (Demo Version 1)
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M.E. (Out-take Mix)