''Echo Dek'' is a

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by the Scottish

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Primal Scream Primal Scream are a Scottish rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie. The band's current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes (guitar), Simone Butler (bass), and Darrin Mooney (drums) ...

. It was released in October 1997 and followed the group's fifth studio album by less than four months. It peaked at number forty-three on the

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and number ninety-seven on the Japanese ''

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'' Album Chart. The album is an experimental dub remix of ''

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''. The album was extensively reworked with additional production by

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Adrian Sherwood Adrian Maxwell Sherwood (born 20 January 1958, London, England) is an English record producer specialising in the genre of dub music. He has created a distinctive production style based on the application of dub effects and dub mixing technique ...

. Sherwood sampled

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musician

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on "Wise Blood". Eight of ''Vanishing Points tracks were remixed for the album – two mixes of "Stuka" appear – "Burning Wheel", "If They Move Kill 'Em" and "Motörhead" are the three songs not included.

Track listing

All tracks written by Gillespie, Innes,

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and Duffy; except where indicated. # "Living Dub" – 5:30 (Remix of "Long Life") # "Duffed Up" – 3:09 (Remix of "Get Duffy") # "Revolutionary" – 5:20 (Remix of "Star") # "Ju-87" – 5:46 (Remix of "Stuka") # " First Name Unknown" (Gillespie, Innes, Young, Duffy and Mounfield) – 5:01 (Remix of "Kowalski") # "Vanishing Dub" – 4:51 (Remix of "Out of the Void") # "Last Train" – 6:22 (Remix of "Trainspotting") # "Wise Blood" – 5:15 (Remix of "Stuka") # "Dub in Vain" – 3:10 (Remix of "Medication")

Personnel

* Brendan Lynch (For Lynchmob Productions) and Primal Scream – Original Production on ''

'' * Adrian Maxwell Sherwood – Mix and Additional Production * Alan Branch – Engineer and Additional Programming * Darren Grant – Assistant Engineer *

– Vocals ("Wise Blood") * House – Design (at Intro)

References

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