Thrill Jockey Albums - A Lazarus Taxon, 94 Diskont, Everybody, Gold and Green, Lead Us Not Into Temptation, Kila Kila Kila, the Golden Age (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Chapters: A Lazarus Taxon, 94 Diskont, Everybody, Gold and Green, Lead Us Not Into Temptation, Kila Kila Kila, the Golden Age, Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Still Lookin' Good to Me, Taiga, Gimmie Trouble, Glam, Beacons of Ancestorship, Good Arrows, Idiology, Red Line, Tnt, Roots & Crowns, Niun Niggung, Why Bother?, Instrumentals, Car Alarm, Sam Prekop, Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters, Radical Connector, One Bedroom, Oui, It's All Around You, Who's Your New Professor, Standards, Tortoise, the Biz, Surrender to the Night, Trans Am, Futureworld, Sex Change, the Sea and Cake, Two Gentlemen, the Fawn, Nassau, Glass. Excerpt: A Lazarus Taxon is the name of a box set by Chicago post-rock group Tortoise, released in 2006 on the Thrill Jockey label. The set contains three CDs, one DVD and an accompanying 20-page booklet. The CDs contain 33 tracks of rare material from tour, compilation and non-American releases, the band's out of print 1995 album Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters, which compiled remixes by friends of the band including Steve Albini, Rick Brown, Jim O'Rourke and Brad Wood, and other previously unreleased material including a restored remix by the Minutemen's Mike Watt that was delivered too late for inclusion on Rhythms... and subsequently fell victim to a malfunctioning DAT machine. Tortoise bassist Bundy K Brown himself restored the tape, twelve years after it was recorded. The DVD contains most of the band's music videos as well as over two hours of "extensive and rare" live performance footage. The set was compiled by the band themselves. The set's title is derived from the palaeontological term "lazarus taxon," meaning a taxon (or grouping of organisms) that disappears from the fossil record only to reappear again at a later point, which in turn re...