''Vitamin Enhanced'' is a 6-disc

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. It compiles the band's six first recordings, originally released in the 1980s. The first six albums were originally released on

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, handmade by the band, and only sold at festivals and concerts. In 1993, the albums were transferred to CD, and the compiling box set was first released in November 1993 through the band's independent record label, Dovetail Records. The original pressing was limited to 5,000 copies. Not much later, the box set was withdrawn due to complaints from food company

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, since they alleged the design of the box was too similar to their

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, going quickly out of print. In 2013, to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary, the original six albums were remastered for the reissue of the Vitamin Enhanced box set, released through Snapper Music in January 2014. In 2021, the six albums were once again remastered and released as a deluxe box set with a 48-page book.

Track listing

CD 1: ''Erpsongs'' (1985)

CD 2: ''Tantric Obstacles'' (1985)

CD 3: ''Ethereal Cereal'' (1986)

CD 4: ''There Is Nothing'' (1987)

CD 5: ''Sliding Gliding Worlds'' (1988)

CD 6: ''Bits Between the Bits'' (1989)

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