If you're like me and have been waiting on pins and needles for a new Avalanches album, this won't fulfill that need but will tide you over for a while more. For your listening enjoyment are The Avalanches' first EP, El Producto, which is more in the vein of the Beastie Boys' Check Your Head than their better known releases, and a collection of rarities and remixes from their various singles and productions they contributed for other artists. There are a lot of live mixes and web-exclusive mash-ups they've done that have been available via their website at times, but none of those are included here. Maybe at a later date I'll post a few of those tracks (there is a wonderful track from February 2004 that sounds like an in-progress preview of their long in the works second album that I'll have to post sometime soon, I just want to find a better copy than the version I have before sharing it) but for now this should cover most of their official non-album tracks and remixes for other artists, almost all of which are long out of print. Enjoy!
The Avalanches - El Producto
UPDATE: Track two is now available as an individual download as there were reports of people having trouble with it.
01 Intro
02 Rolling High
03 Rap Fever
04 Rock City
05 Under Inspection
06 Run DNA
07 Outro
The Avalanches - Rarities & Remixes
01 A Different Feeling (Paperclip People Remix, Avalanches Re-Edit)
02 Everyday
03 With My Baby
04 Thank You Caroline
05 Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining (The Avalanches Good Word For The Weekend Remix)
06 Gerling - Enter Spacecapsule (Enter The Spaceship Mix)
07 Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
08 Manic Street Preachers - So Why So Sad (Sean Penn Mix)
09 Belle and Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo (Avalanches Remix)
10 Wolfmother - Woman (Avalanches Millstream Mix)
11 Electricity (Original 7" Version)
12 Thank You Caroline (Original 7" Version)
13 Slow Walking
14 Undersea Community
15 Yamaha Superstar
16 The Concretes - Chico (Avalanches' Wernham Hogg Remix)
17 Franz Ferdinand - Fade Together (Avalanches Remix)
PS - Two quick notes... For anyone wondering, all of the tracks in this post are ripped from original CDs or lossless copies, so no transcodes here! Also, I was listening to a live DJ set from DJ Dexter, one of The Avalanches' DJs, and was surprised to hear the revised samples in Frontier Psychiatrist used on the track rather than the original samples, despite this performance being before the album was released. Makes me wonder if the original version of the album snuck out in limited quantities accidentally.
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