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Cover of OUT THERE: red and orange lights scattered over a dark background, the title in white capitals.

Album · 2002

OUT THERE

OUT THERE was the band's second retail album, a CD on Sunrise Recordings / SHR of Chicago in early 2002 that the band later described as pulled from the shelves when the label closed.1,2,3

Released
5 February 2002
Label
Strictly Hype Recordings
Catalog no.
SHR-1020
Format
CD
Tracks
9
Length
1:02:44

About the release

The album grew out of the band's work of 2001. In June 2001 the band wrote on MP3.com that it had been busy laying down new tracks, with a new album coming out later that year, and its MP3.com entries for Beginning of the End, Bring out the Dead, Come to Daddy and other tracks named the CD as Out There. Six of the nine tracks the band later listed for the album had also been on Audiographic Moments, its MP3.com CD of July 2001. By February 2002 the band had presented the album's track list in a news thread on its message board.3,4,5

The band's later accounts of the release differ. By October 2002 its MP3.com page called the title track the theme of "the album that never was released", dropped after a long line of problems with labels, and in June 2003 its website left OUT THERE out of its list of CD releases. The press kit of November 2003 listed it among the band's retail albums, dated 15 January 2002, as "Discontinued due to label crash", and from 2004 the website dated it 5 February 2002, a retail CD released through Sunrise Recordings.3,6,7,1,8

In 2004 the band's web shop wrote that the album had first been pressed in 5,000 copies but was pulled from the shelves when the label closed, so that only a few hundred copies reached the market. In October 2003 Alexander told listeners that with luck they might find it on Amazon.com, and forum members who went looking in late 2003 reported finding copies through Amazon.com, eBay and other online shops.2,9,10

On 30 April 2004 the band reissued OUT THERE on CD through Ampcast, though not exactly as SHR had released it, since the original ran 78:48 and Ampcast allowed 70 minutes. In 2012 Out There, A Concept of Love (in Harmony) and Conga Trance were among the remastered tracks of the collection Lost and Found.11,12

In their words

“A few hundred copies got out on the market, making this a very hard-2-get release.”

trance[]control, 23 November 20042

Tracklist

1Bring out the Dead08:16140 BPM
2A Concept of Love07:27140 BPM
3Out There07:28140 BPM
4Beginning of the End05:17140 BPM
5Come to Daddy05:45140 BPM
6Conga Trance07:24140 BPM
7Deep Vibrations05:53143 BPM
8High Society07:36140 BPM
9Distorted Minds07:38140 BPM

On the band's forum

Sources

  1. Band, at the time Press kit of 13 November 2003: press text, logo, flyer and press photograph · view preserved page
  2. Band, at the time Web shop item "OUT THERE", trancecontrol.com (November 2004) · view preserved page
  3. Independent, at the time MP3.com artist page trance_control, November 2003 · view preserved page
  4. Written later trancecontrol.com discography (music.php and release pages) · view preserved page
  5. Band, at the time Message board: topic list of "News - trance[]control", July 2002 · view preserved page
  6. Band, at the time Message board: topic list of "News - trance[]control", November 2002 · view preserved page
  7. Band, at the time "Music" page, trancecontrol.com (June 2003): CD releases · view preserved page
  8. Band, at the time "Music" page, trancecontrol.com (June 2004): CD releases, compilations, vinyl · view preserved page
  9. Band, at the time Forum news thread: "MISSION 2002 Release #20" (the softsynths, October 2003)
  10. Independent, at the time Forum thread: "Out There CD" (November to December 2003)
  11. Band, at the time Forum news: "OUT THERE [REISSUED]" (Ampcast, 30 April 2004) · view preserved page
  12. Band, at the time Album page "Lost and Found", trancecontrol.com (2012 site, captured March 2013) · view preserved page

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