Does God Play Dice?

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, Does God Play Dice? was our fifth single. Released twenty years ago today, it was the last single from our second album Nemesis (1995).

For the first time, it was just a two-track single, on a cassette tape with a Side A (an edit of the title track) and a Side B, the previously unreleased Self Destruction. This was primarily decided by the cassette stock that was available to us - a 3:28 demo tape which we could easily record over. So there was one simple rule - each track had to be three and a half minutes or shorter.

It would be nearly another year and a half before our big return with 1997's Prologue EP, and we've come to see it in a way as the end of an era. The last release of our very early days...

Interestingly, today is also the fifteenth anniversary of our later single Electric Avenue. More on that later...

Nemesis is, by the way, surprisingly not that bad, unlike our debut effort Schizophrenia (1992). Hopefully we'll be able to share it with you one day.

Something borrowed

As I explained a couple of weeks ago, we have spent a lot of the last couple of years buried deep in our past, remastering such classics as Reign of the Morons (1992), Spherical Ditch Cheese (1995), and Make Time for Vindaloo (1996).

At the same time, we were vaguely thinking about the two albums which are currently in wide distribution, Transmission (2011) and Dusk (2006), both available through our official website here. Some of the highlights are available through iTunes and Amazon Digital too, but we wondered if it might be nice for a full-length album to be on there too.

Quite what that will be hasn't entirely been decided yet, and it won't happen for a few months yet. Hypothetically, a compilation might be nice, as we haven't done one since our singles collection Synopsis, which covered our first ten years, and that was fourteen years ago now.

So right now, you find us re-evaluating our back catalogue, trying to figure out what the highlights are, and whether some of them might fit nicely alongside our newer material, whether remixed or just remastered.

If you want to see (or rather, hear) where that leads, stay tuned!