Devo Demos Recombo'd for Vinyl

Devo Demos Recombo’d for Vinyl

Devo’s demo collection Recombo DNA will be expanded and reissued this year in a special 4LP vinyl edition from the Futurismo label.

Released as a limited 2CD set in 2000 by Rhino Handmade, Recombo DNA collected unreleased demos, alternates and outtakes of the legendary Akron band recorded during their tenure on Warner Bros. Records between 1977 and 1987. Versions of familiar tracks like “Be Stiff,” “Girl U Want,” “Whip It” and others are all here.

Futurismo’s version is pressed on quadruple vinyl, adding excerpts of audio interviews with band members Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh and six additional unreleased bonus tracks, including demos from the band’s most recent album, Something For Everybody (2010). An additional mini CD features one more unreleased track, “The Something Suite,” recorded in 1989.

This 140-gram vinyl pressing includes new artwork, new liner notes by Casale and a double-sided poster. “Petri Dish,” “Molecular Mutation” and “Emergency Codes” color variants will all be available, as will bundles that include a Devo lab coat. The new reissue is out August 11 and can be pre-ordered now at the preceding links!

Recombo DNA (originally released as Rhino Handmade RHM2 7718, 2000 – reissued Futurismo 27, 2017)

* previously unreleased
+ interview tracks

LP 1

A Necessary Response with Gerald Casale +
Recombo DNA (Demo)
The Words Get Stuck In My Throat (Live)
Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin’) (Demo)
Be Stiff (Alternate Mix/Version)
Pink Pussycat (Demo)
Goo Goo Itch (Alternate Version)
Strange Pursuit (Demo)
The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise (Demo)
Bushwacked (Prosthetic Version)
Girl U Want (Demo Alternate Version)
Turn Around (Demo Alternate Version)
Snowball (Demo Alternate Version)
Luv & Such
Conscious Mutation with Mark Mothersbaugh +

LP 2

Gates of Steel (Demo Alternate Version)
Planet Earth (Demo Alternate Version)
Whip It (Demo Alternate Version)
Cold War (Demo Alternate Version)
Time Bomb
That’s Pep (Demo Alternate Version)
Mental Warfare with Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh +
Ton ‘O Luv (Instrumental Demo) *
Make Me Dance
Gotta Serve Somebody (Live)
I Saw Jesus
Psychology of Desire (Demo)
Pity You (Demo)

LP 3

Beautiful World (Demo)
Race of Doom (Demo)
I Desire (Demo)
Big Mess (Demo)
Pink Pussycat (Demo)
The 4th Dimension (Alternate Rough Mix)
Here to Go (Alternate Rough Mix)
Some Things Don’t Change (Rough Mix)
Big Adventure (Rough Mix)
No Noise (Rough Mix)
Love Is Stronger Than Dirt
Faster and Faster
Modern Life
We Are Unique with Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh +

LP 4

The Only One (Demo with vocal by Toni Basil)
Baby Doll (Demo)
Some Things Never Change (Demo)
Plain Truth (Demo)
Happy Guy (Demo)
Before Baby Doll There Was Satan with Mark Mothersbaugh +
Satan (Pre-Baby Doll) *
Red Alert *
Sad Song (Instrumental) *
Mind Games (Demo) *
Later Is Now (Instrumental) *
It’s Not Nuclear Bombs You Must Fear with Booji Boy +

Mini CD

The Somewhere Suite (Studio Version Demo) *

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Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

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