Returning Wheel [Box set]

Minimal Compact | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Crammed Discs
• ASIN: B000V8MR3O
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,928 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Dedicated [#]

2. Statik Dancin'

3. Babylonian Tower

4. Creation Is Perfect (I Am a Camera)

5. Next One Is Real

6. Not Knowing

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Next One Is Real [Tiefschwarz Remix]

2. It Takes a Lifetime [Kruder & Stereotyp's 'Yes, Indeed' Version]

3. Shouts & Kisses [Fauna Flash Remix]

4. Deadly Weapons [Optimo Remix]

5. Autumn Leaves [International Observer's Oak Tree Mix]

6. Statik Dancin' [LA Danse MacAbre Remix]

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. What You Mean [#]

2. Esther [#]

3. Queen of the Night [#]

4. Kyoto [#]

5. On the Road [#]

6. Time Is Forever [#]

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

From One of the Most Inspirational Bands of the 1980's Comes a Comprehensive, Triple CD Set of their Hits, Remixes, and Previously Unreleased Material. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 Stars for a neat collection, October 20, 2009

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jPOW! (seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Returning Wheel (Audio CD)

This is a nice 3 CD set, and might be considered a nice introduction to Minimal Compact, but is probably most interesting for long time fans.

You get 2 discs of archival outtakes, and remixes, and just 1 disc of "classics" that really feels incomplete, because it is.

The 15 track "classics" disc feels like an incentive to buy the whole set, and it worked, because unfortunately the band's albums are all very hard to find, and out of print.

I was excited when it came out, but in the long run this set just makes me wish they had reissued all the albums together with this stuff tacked on as bonus tracks.

A note on the packaging: The box is very nice, solid, sturdy, and has a very nice, thick booklet, full of photos, history, and also includes complete lyrics to all the songs, on all of their albums...which is really a tease since the albums are so hard to find!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Full and dark box of the legendary band, December 30, 2009

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Wlodzimierz (Warsaw, Poland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Returning Wheel (Audio CD)

Coming from Israel, living in Belgium and Netherlands Minimals tried to attract attention and to fulfill their dark vision of reality. Their sound was close to Joy Division but full of the oriental nostalgia. They created cold, depressive but very original performance - because the music, words and expression in the work of the Minimal Compact form the coherent whole, the unity.
Buy this if you don't fear the cold, intelligent music