Recorded 1981–84 Early Trax
(2004) Side Trax
(2004) Release date 12 October 2004 Label Rykodisc | Length 73:25 Artist Ministry Producer Al Jourgensen | |
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Released October 12, 2004 (2004-10-12) Genres Synth-pop, New wave, Electronic body music, Pop music, Gothic rock Similar Ministry albums, Industrial music albums | ||
Early Trax is a compilation album by the electronic band Ministry. It was released in 2004 on the Rykodisc record company.
Contents
The album contains either released or previously unreleased songs from 1981 through to 1984, as well as some remixes of those songs (roughly half of the album by time is made up of remixes of songs also on the album). The album is thus similar to the 1987 compilation album Twelve Inch Singles and contains much of the same material. Most of the songs on the album were initially released on the Wax Trax! label. As can be expected from Ministry's early work, the album features a strong synthpop and new wave flavor - Ministry moved more definitively into the industrial metal genre later into their career (post Twitch). The album also shows Ministry's early gothic rock beginnings, with the two mixes of "I'm Falling" and "Overkill" being some of their earliest tracks.
Track listing
All tracks written by Al Jourgensen.
Personnel
Songs
1Every Day Is Halloween6:26
2Halloween (remix)10:25
3All Day5:51