''Cruise'' is the sixteenth
studio album
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by
power electronics
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band
Whitehouse Whitehouse may refer to:
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, released in 2001 through the band's Susan Lawly label. The album was reissued on double
vinyl
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format through Very Friendly in 2007, and was the first of a series of
limited edition
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vinyl reissues of the band's catalog.
IDM musician
Aphex Twin
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once played a
remixed version of the title track at the 2001
Sónar
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festival.
He has also played the track "Public" during a special "headphone" set at Barbican, London, in which one reviewer of the show called the track "unnecessary, exploitative, and cheap".
[Warp Records
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