Description
These crackling, chameleonic EPs still seem to hold secrets, surprising and confounding in equal measure. A lot has changed in 20 years, but the very existence of the Beta Bandfour rave-damaged, dub-inflected, spacecase pop savants, briefly given the keys to the kingdomis still enough to spin your head. I always imagined wed be as big as Radiohead, Mason told The Guardian in 2004. The music industry was not always kind to the Betas, but the Beta Bands work after these EPs, built with an ostentatious arsenal of vintage equipment, wouldnt exist without major-label patronage. Yet the Betas are precisely the kind of band the risk-averse majors would likely never sign now. Maybe Mason was right all along: Bands like this should be the norm. (via Pitchfork)
Originally released in September 1998 on Regal, The Three E.P.s collected the bands first 3 E.P. releases, Champion Versions, The Patty Patty Sound & Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos. Previously reissued by Because in 2018, this new vinyl re-press with Matt Colton remastered audio will be available on 2 x 12 black 180g audiophile heavyweight vinyl with artworked inner sleeves which feature the original cover artwork of the 3 EP releases. (via Label)
Label: Because Music
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, 180g
Reissued: 2025 / Original: 1998
Genre: Rock, Electronic
Style: Experimental, Trip Hop, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Male Vocals
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