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How to Operate with a Blown Mind

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Released
  
May 25, 1998

Producer
  
Lo Fidelity Allstars

Release date
  
25 May 1998

Genres
  
Big beat, Electronica

Length
  
69:06

Artist
  
Lo Fidelity Allstars

Label
  
Columbia Records

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How to Operate with a Blown Mind(1998)
  
On the Floor at the Boutique(2000)

Big beat albums
  
On the Floor at the Boutique, On the Floor at the Boutique, You've Come a Long Wa, The Fat of the Land, Exit Planet Dust

How to Operate with a Blown Mind is the 1998 debut album from Leeds experimental big beat group Lo Fidelity Allstars.

Contents

In a rundown of "intelligent big beat", Simon Reynolds called the album an "oxymoronic masterpiece of 'darkside big beat'."

Warming up the brain farm lo fidelity allstars


Track listing

  1. "Warming Up the Brain Farm" – 2:55
  2. "Kool Roc Bass" – 7:40
  3. "Kasparov's Revenge" – 6:00
  4. "Blisters on My Brain" – 6:46
  5. "How to Operate with a Blown Mind" – 7:24
  6. "I Used to Fall in Love" – 5:10
  7. "Battle Flag" featuring Pigeonhed – 5:39
  8. "Lazer Sheep Dip Funk" – 7:21
  9. "Will I Get Out of Jail?" – 6:18
  10. "Vision Incision" – 9:37
  11. "Nightime Story" – 4:16

List of samples

The following lists songs that were sampled for How to Operate with a Blown Mind.

Warming Up the Brain Farm contains samples from:

  • "Panther Power" by Paris
  • "I Keep Forgettin'" by Checkmates
  • "Memphis B-K" by Little Sonny

    • Kool Roc Bass

  • "Here Comes the Beat" as performed by Pumpkin and the Profile All-Stars
  • "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force
  • "Gangster of Hip Hop" by Just Ice

    • How to Operate with a Blown Mind

  • "Children Don't Get Weary" by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • "Lara's Theme" by James Last
  • "The War in Korea" by James Cameron
  • "What Is It?" by The Temptations

    • Battle Flag

  • "Crosswind" by Billy Cobham

    • Lazer Sheep Dip Funk

  • "I Need Some Money" by Eddie Harris
  • "Kangol & Doc" as performed by UTFO
  • "The Way We Were" performed by Norman Chandler

    • Will I Get Out of Jail?

  • "So Lonely Without You" performed by Betty Crutcher
  • "Be My Love" by The Originals
  • "War of the Gods" by Billy Paul

    • Vision Incision

  • "A Woman Needs a Good Man" by The Three Degrees

    • Nighttime Story

  • "If & When" by The Three Degrees

    • Television

  • "Battle Flag" appears in the episode "Be Still My Heart" of the NBC drama ER. The song appears in episodes of Queer as Folk and Smallville. It was used in the trailer for the movie "Drillbit Taylor", and for the trailer for the "Duke Nukem Forever" video game released in 2011. It also appears at the end of the episode "46 Long" of HBO's The Sopranos.

    • Songs

    1Warming Up the Brain Farm2:55
    2Kool Roc Bass7:40
    3Kasparov's Revenge6:00

    References

    How to Operate with a Blown Mind Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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