Remember the Future
| Remember the Future | ||||
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| Studio album by Nektar | ||||
| Released | November 23, 1973 | |||
| Recorded | August 1973 | |||
| Studio | Chipping Norton Studio, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England[1] | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, funk[2] | |||
| Length | 35:40 | |||
| Label | Bacillus | |||
| Producer | Peter Hauke and Nektar | |||
| Nektar chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   link |
Remember the Future is the fourth album from English progressive rock band Nektar. Much like their debut album Journey to the Centre of the Eye, it is a concept album which is formally divided into ten tracks but in fact consists of one continuous piece of music.
Release
Remember the Future was first released in 1973 by Bacillus (Bellaphon).
The album was re-released in 1990 on LP and CD by Germany's Bellaphon. The mix used for this release was the LP mix that was rejected. In 2002 Bellaphon remastered the album from the original tapes and reissued it on CD with two bonus tracks, which were Radio Promo edits. This was the first time that the correct LP mixes were released on CD.[3]
In 2004 Remember the Future was once again re-released, but this time by the UK's Eclectic Discs/Dream Nebula Recordings. For this reissue[4] the remastered version was used and they added a third Radio edit of the title track. This version was also released as a SACD, which includes a 5.1 surround mix (which was actually the original 1973 quadraphonic mix with derived center and LFE channels added); the 2 channel audio CD layer contains the 2002 remix. Track 3 ("Remember the Future") is an edit released on a various artists compilation album titled "Made In Germany." Tracks 4 and 5 are radio promo only single edits.
In 2014, Cleopatra Records issued a 3-CD set of the original album, plus a bonus material CD and a CD consisting of rehearsals of new material the band recorded in 1974 at Chipping Norton studios.
Track listing
All songs written by Nektar.
| Side one | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Remember the Future (Part I)"
| 16:40 |
| Side two | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Remember the Future (Part II)"
| 19:00 |
| CD Release Bonus Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Remember the Future" ("Made in Germany" edit) | 9:51 |
| 2. | "Lonely Roads" (Radio Promo Only single edit) | 3:50 |
| 3. | "Let It Grow" (Radio Promo Only single edit) | 2:19 |
Personnel
- Allan "Taff" Freeman – keyboards, backing vocals, production
- Roye Albrighton – guitars, lead vocals, production
- Derek "Mo" Moore – bass guitar, backing vocals, production
- Ron Howden – drums, percussion, backing vocals, production
- Mick Brockett – lights, production
- Peter Hauke - production
- Barry Hammond - engineer
References
- ↑ "Nektar Chronology". Retrieved 2007-11-26.
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/remember-the-future-mw0000254440
- ↑ Nektar. "Remember The Future". Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ Nektar. "Discography". Retrieved 1 October 2010.