Recombo DNA | |
Type: | Compilation Album |
Artist: | Devo |
Cover: | Recombo DNA.jpg |
Caption: | Cover art by KRK Ryden |
Released: | 2000 |
Recorded: | 1977–1988 |
Label: | Rhino |
Producer: | Devo |
Prev Year: | 2000 |
Next Title: | Live in Central Park |
Next Year: | 2004 |
Recombo DNA is a collection of studio demos and unreleased tracks by the American new wave band Devo. It was originally released in 2000 by Rhino Entertainment's Rhino Handmade label and limited to 5,000 copies.
Recombo DNA is culled from cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, multi-tracks and DATs from the Devo archives, with an emphasis on recordings that had not previously been illicitly circulated, augmented with some sonically upgraded versions of tracks that had previously leaked. The recordings span the era following the band's first independently released singles to the year prior to their signing with Enigma Records.[1]
On August 11, 2017, Futurismo Records reissued Recombo DNA on quadruple vinyl with additional material and new artwork. For this LP edition, "Somewhere With Devo" was removed from the main track listing, retitled "The Somewhere Suite" and included on a 3-inch Mini CD, a release which had been originally planned for May 1989.[2]
"The Somewhere Suite" is in six parts, and an original advertisement from 1989, reproduced inside the LP reissue, labels them as follows:[3]
Notes adapted from liner notes of original 2000 Rhino Handmade edition.[1]
The bonus tracks for this edition appear below in italics.