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The Pet Shop Boys will release Disco 3, the third and latest installment in their series of dance albums, on February 4th. Unlike its two predecessors, the ten-track record will include some new material in addition to remixed, older tracks.
The five new songs on Disco 3 were recorded during sessions for the band's 2002 release Release, and four cuts are remixes from Release. Two of the new songs, "Positive Role Model" and "Somebody Else's Business," were recorded in Berlin with producer Chris Zippel during the same session as Release's "London," which itself appears in two remixed forms. The duo also offers up a cover of Bobby O's 1983 track, "Try It (I'm In Love With a Married Man)."
According to Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant, the group recorded Release without thinking about potential remixes. "We decided not to pursue dance music, dance beats," Tennant said. "And when we made that decision it was quite liberating that you weren't looking over your shoulder at possible remix stuff. So all sorts of stuff floated up."
Release also represented a more hands-on and organic approach for a group with deep electronic roots. "We decided to do this album differently," Tennant said. "On [1999's] Nightlife we worked with three different producers and made what I thought was a really well-produced album. On this album we decided to do it ourselves and we decided at the outset just to play everything ourselves. That immediately created a different sound, which was quite exciting. It's nice to be able to surprise people when you've been making records for sixteen years or whatever it is."
Disco 3 will be offered in a limited edition three-record vinyl set. It's the first release in the dance series in eight years, following volumes in 1986 and 1994.
In other Pet Shop Boys news, Tennant and Lowe have also remixed Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice," a recording originally produced by John Lennon. The song is part of Ono's series of remixes of her vintage material.
Disco 3 track listing:
Time on My Hands
Positive Role Model
Try It (I'm in Love With a Married Man)
London (Thee Radikal Blaklite edit)
Somebody Else's Business
Here (New extended mix)
If Looks Could Kill
Sexy Northerner (Superchumbo mix)
Home and Dry (Blank and Jones mix)
London (Genuine piano mix)
ANDREW DANSBY
(January 14, 2003)