pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

Not only are Tortoise one of my favorite post-rock bands they provided one of the best remixes for our 2005 double CD for Return The Gift. I noticed on their web site that they have a CD/DVD set out called A Lazarus Taxon. Downloads are available for sale. Here’s the store.

Spanning three CDs and one DVD, this set sums up just about all of Tortoise’s extra-curricular activity during their 16-year career, previously only available for two-months-salary prices on eBay. The set is centered around the Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters LP, which went out of print almost directly upon its release after their first album in 1995, and includes the lost Mike Watt remix track, which arrived too late to be pressed on the LP, and had to be respooled from a broken DAT by Bundy K. Brown just to be included here! The rest of the set is filled out by 7″ and 12″ EP, compilation, and Japanese bonus tracks.

Watch a video of Seneca from the album Standards here.

Gang of Four - Paralyzed (Tortoise remix) [MP3]