Colossal Spin

So raw and unpolished, and so delicious! This one just screams electropunk.

Sink your teeth into one of the original versions of “Stone”. More industrial than the “official” version from the v2.1.7 release, yet oddly more musical and melodic. This was recorded on a cassette 8-track back in 1994 and has held up well thanks to a mixdown onto Digital Audio Tape.

Another sub-woofer-shredding deep-drums remix for you, straight from the pits of hell! One of our fan favorites from the 90’s gets the 00’s remix treatment just in time for Y2K.

That screaming squelch from Reptile is back, this time riding on top of some pounding, in-your-face drums that threaten to tear your arms off. And then that boom-bass boom comes in to destroy the room. In the middle of all this is some pretty sinister-sounding yet strangely-laid-back vocals. “Slither in your hole…” What? Woah.

From the 2000 Duelling Suzis album.

This odd little track was recorded in 2000 but never released. So we guess it’s NEW MATERIAL! Originally slated for the Duelling Suzis album, this song was among five or six that were cut because they didn’t fit thematically with the album. Ha! Like albums matter any more. Man were we stupid…

Still, the tone of this track was quite different from anything we had released before, and we really weren’t quite sure what to do with it. A bit of David Bowie-style vocals, a bit of -gasp!- pop influence, a bit of rock, a bit of screaming guitars… what the hell is this thing? So, after a decade of sitting on a hard drive in obscurity, now we share this with you. 

Lyrically, this song it pretty damn interesting. Take a listen and see if you can untangle the madness. 

Let us know what you think about this one: weird, cool, stupid, all-of-the-above?

And now for something completely different… a symphonic, ambient composition worthy of the 90’s.

This track was a “bonus” on the 1996 v2.1.7 EP. We use “quotation marks” mainly because we always wondered at how this song found it’s way on to an otherwise rocking collection of tunes.

Well… enjoy it, if that’s your thing.

REMIX: The most quintessential CSpin song of all time, remixed for optimal put-your-top-down-and-your-bass-up blasting.

Ultraviolet was written in 15 minutes in 1997 while Zurich was waiting for pr0n or something to finish downloading (it was dial-up back then, remember?). It was during the height of the band’s aggressive East coast gigging and late-night studio sessions, and we like to think that he was just in the zone. Some other amazing songs were written that week, too, but those never saw the inside of a recording booth due to various touring pressures.

Anyway, this song was a blast to play live, too—if the bassist could just remember to drop the tuning on his E string. Really… was that so hard to remember, Paul?

This particular version was remixed in 1999 from the original 4 track cassette demo, and released on a Ballistic Test compilation CD by Flaming Fish Records.