''Early Trax'' is a compilation album by an American rock band Ministry, released on October 12, 2004, by Rykodisc. The album contains either released or previously unreleased songs from 1981 through to 1984, as well as some remixes of those songs (roughly half of the album by time is made up of remixes of songs also on the album). The album is thus similar to the 1987 compilation album '' Twelve Inch Singles'' and contains much of the same material. Most of the songs on the album were initially released on the

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label. As can be expected from Ministry's early work, the album features a strong

synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...

and new wave flavor - Ministry moved more definitively into the

industrial metal Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Prominent industrial metal acts include Ministry, Nine In ...

genre later into their career (post '' Twitch''). The album also shows Ministry's early

gothic rock Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie a ...

beginnings, with the two mixes of "I'm Falling" and "Overkill" being some of their earliest tracks.

Track listing

*Tracks 8, 9, 11, 12 were previously unreleased

Personnel

*Al Jourgensen - vocals, guitar (10-12), keyboards, programming, production * Stephen George - percussion (3, 4),

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(10-12) *Brad Hallen - bass (3, 4) *Patty Jourgensen - additional vocals (3-6) * Richard 23 - additional vocals (5, 6) *John Davis - keyboards (10-12) *Marty Sorenson - bass (10-12) *Paul Taylor - keyboards (10-11) *Lawton Outlaw -

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& design

References

External links

''Early Trax'' at
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