April 20 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. Legendary producer Pete "Mixmaster" Hammond has undertaken a throwback hi-NRG remix project, completely re-playing and reworking 11 of Dead Or Alive's recordings, in the classic 1980s sound. These remixes are a retro take on some of their newer songs, as to how they might have sounded. To illustrate the complexity of the project, each song is built up of between 130 to 190 track parts; i.e. drums, guitars, bass lines, synths, and vocals. Packaged as a 2LP set, with printed inner bags, containing an intro note with the backstory behind the album's concept.
May 3 street date. Working with Dead Or Alive's later recordings, legendary producer Pete "Mixmaster" Hammond has undertaken a throwback hi-NRG remix project, completely re-playing and reworking 11 of the band's recordings, in the classic 1980s sound. These remixes are a retro take on those newer songs as to how they might have sounded. To illustrate the complexity of the project, each song is built up of between 130 to 190 track parts; i.e. drums, guitars, bass lines, synths, and vocals. This edition is packaged as a 2CD set in 7-inch deluxe gatefold packaging, with 8-page page booklet containing an intro note with the backstory behind the album's concept.
May 31 street date. Capturing the first two years of Dead Or Alive's career, "Running Wild: The Inevitable Years" compiles their first two singles, originally released on the Liverpool label Inevitable, and related Peel Session highlights, bringing the latter to vinyl for the first time. Having been "discovered" working in Liverpool's Probe Records during the punk rock explosion of the late 1970s, Pete Burns quickly found himself fronting his very own band, Nightmares In Wax, who quickly mutated into the more familiar Dead Or Alive. A star was born. But prior to pop stardom, tabloid-tantalising celebrity, and his later revival and recognition as an icon of gay punk and pop culture, Pete led Dead Or Alive into far darker waters, as one of the earliest explorers of the post-punk Goth scene. "Running Wild" presents an early glimpse at the phenomenon Pete would become, and a long overdue back story accompaniment for fans and collectors alike.