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1999.  Gusgus in there last days in the breakbeatish era are touring Europe. There is a day off in Paris with nothing to do!  Good opportunity to ditch the singers and explore the live set, instrumental, at some Gay Club.  Includes probably the weirdest tribute to Patrick Cowley ever, called Megatron Mench. 

Released on CD as a French promotion only.

Mix@Respect

Gusgus live @ Nasa 2011.06.18.  Add this Song.  Legendary Performance including Earth drooping one of her solo songs at the tail and Högni stepping up in the bridge

Add this Song (live@Nasa 2011.06.18)

The opening on the Arabian Horse performed at the Besta Festival in Iceland.  As usual some additional elements have been added to the mix to have someting special for those who attend Gusgus gigs.

Selfoss (Live @ Besta Festival)

Another track from the Roxy performance in late 2008.  Maybe someone should have added some more effects on the two backing vocal singers?

Moss (live @ Roxy 2008.10.23)

In early 2001 Earth joined Gusgus. New musical direction was taken but the aim was still unclear.  The only thing known was that we wanted to move away from the triphop collective towards more club and electronical orientation.  Numerous exploration where tired and later the album Attention came to life as some mixture of house, 80's and soul.  You already know is one demo that was never finished.  It demonstrates the more house edge that was explored during that time.

You already know

Just before Daniel left the band in 2000 he and Biggi Veira had already made a demo of Desire.  When Daniel left and the more housy attitude emerged some attempt was to "house the track up".  That approach was soon abandoned and the original demo was worked towards the version commonly known on the Attention album.  Here is this house version for you to judge.

Desire (house version)

During 1999, Gusgus toured the "This is Normal" album.  Acid Milk was one of the tracks played.  At the end of the track some strings not prior in the album version where added.  In 2000 the band experimented with these string chapter trying to establish a version for a new track called Lactic.  As the initial 1995 formation of the band collapsed in mid 2000 the track was never finished.  Here is the last version of the demo recorded in early 2000.

Lactic (thule V02)

The track Deep Inside was the only track that did not emerge from the "Summer House sessions" in the winter of 2009.  The first version was done as one of many ideas for Earth's track "Why you Wanna" later to be released on Gong Ho Records.  As Earth selected some other solution to her track an instrumental version was dropped for later thoughts.  At one of Daniels visit to the studio we where searching through some demos to see if any could be of use.  We picked this one and did some further experiments with it, adding the base line for example.  Much later Högni arrived at the stage adding his bit. Here are both these version, the original instrumental and the version that came out of the "With Daniel" experiments.

Deep Inside demo V01

When Gusgus was formed in 1995 one of its components was the electronic act called T-World including the members Buckmaster and Biggi Veira.  Few know that the track Purple from the album Polydistortion was actually a T-World track from 1993.  After the Gusgus swallowing of T-World the act ceased.  Here is one of there last track done in the summer of 1995.

vs Tworld - Track 11

Sometimes when you have worked long on a track you get tired of hearing the same old elements as they have been looping in your ears for days.  So there is often the incentive to throw the old stuff away and do something different.  Here is one result of throwing the old stuff away and creating something new (But then we switched back hehe..).

Hold You (Simple 16 V34)

Arabian Horse V01

Cruz was extra track on the Attention Vinyl.  Here it is remastered for those catching up with Gusgus.

Cruz

Well, well.  Nasa is soon to enter nonexistence.  No proper venue for Reykjavik then.  But while time unfolds what will come here is a recording from one of Gusgus live performances at Nasa.  This one from 2004 featuring Earth performing Daniel Agust track Desire.

Desire (Live airwaves 2004)

Some remixes are more difficult than others, in the sense that the customer has ideas and we think different.  That sometimes results in no results that leave some unfinished leftovers.  Here is one dubdrop of an remix idea that was never finished.

Pearlshoot(v24-dub)

Remix done in the Forever period.  You can hear resemblance to the track demo 54 if you listen closely

DMS - Troja (Gusgus remix)

Instrumental bounce of add this song from some band practice in 2008

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