Sexmix

Sexmix (subtitled Archive Tapes And Studio Adventures, Volume One) is a Frankie Goes to Hollywood remix album released on 3 August, 2012. The set focuses on rare FGTH single formats, specifically the cassette releases ("singlettes") and CD releases.

Sexmix
Remix album by
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Released3 August 2012 (2012-08-03)
GenreNew wave, dance
LabelZTT, Salvo, Union Square Music - SALVOMDCD28
ProducerTrevor Horn, Stephen Lipson
Frankie Goes to Hollywood chronology
Frankie Say Greatest
(2009)		 Sexmix
(2012)		 Frankie Said
(2012)

Controversy

A day before the set was revealed, it was revealed that mono mixes had been supplied for the "All In The Body, All In The Mind" singlette, with hints of a lossless replacement download for said single.[1] Many people didn't take notice until the set was released, when a majority of people gave the release low ratings due to this.

Eventfully, on 21 November, 2012 ZTT offered a mail-order physical replacement disc (with said tracks mastered in stereo) to those who had purchased the set prior, by either sending them the mono disc or emailing (or sending) a scanned copy of their receipt or other proof of purchase (to prove they brought Sexmix) to Union Square Music's email address.[2]

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "all in the body" - 1:23
  2. "The Soundtrack from Bernard Rose's Video of the Welcome to the Pleasuredome Single" - 5:43
  3. "Get It On" - 4:11
  4. "Welcome to the Pleasuredome (How To Remake The World)" - 11:40
  5. "all in the mind" - 1:13
  6. "Relax (International)" - 4:44
  7. "The Power of Love (Extended, singlette version)" - 9:20
  8. "scrapped" - 1:39
  9. "Holier Than Thou" - 1:08
  10. "trapped" - 2:29
  11. "Holier Than Thou" - 4:09
  12. "The Power of Love (Instrumental, singlette version)" - 3:32
  13. "The World is My Oyster (in its 7" form) - 4:18
  14. "don't lose what's left" - 0:19
  15. "Rage Hard ⊕⊕⊕✪" - 17:13
  • Tracks 1-5 form the original "All In The Body, All In The Mind" singlette. Tracks 1 and 5 are experts from Walter Kaufmann's 1967 translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy as read by Geoffrey Palmer, track 2 is the soundtrack to the shorter "Escape Act" version of the original promo clip (the full "Alternative to Reality" version clocks in at 7:52), track 3 is the full version of their cover of T-Rex's "Get It On" (which had been featured in shorter edits on the vinyl release) and track 4 is a unique extended version of "Real Altered".
  • Tracks 7-12 form the original cassette release of the first "Power of Love" 12". Differences include Track 7 opening with an excerpt of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, tracks 9 and 11 having the usage of "fuck" and "shit" reversed and track 12 ending with two short unlisted tracks, which are merged into that track.
  • Tracks 6 and 13 are the original B-sides to the afromented singles. "Relax (International)" was the live B-side of the "Real Altered" 12" and "The World Is My Oyster (in its 7" form)" was the B-side to the "Power of Love" 7".
  • Track 14 is an excerpt of "Don't Lose What's Left (Of Your Little Mind)" which predicted "Roadhouse Blues" on the rare "Rage Hard" CD single.
  • Track 15 was originally released on the rare CD single release of "Rage Hard".

Disc 2
  1. "Relax (Sex Mix)" - 16:26
  2. "Later On (from One September Monday)" - 1:36
  3. "Ferry Cross The Mersey (...And Here I'll Stay) - 4:07
  4. "Two Tribes (Keep The Peace, intro)" - 0:24
  5. "One February Friday (Singlette version, part 1)" - 0:40
  6. "Two Tribes (Carnage)" - 7:55
  7. "One February Friday (Singlette version, part 2)" - 1:08
  8. "War (somewhere between Hiding and Hidden)" - 4:14
  9. "One February Friday (Singlette Version, part 3)" - 0:22
  10. "Two Tribes (Keep The Peace, outro)" - 0:06
  11. "Warriors of the Wasteland (Compacted)" - 23:39
    1. "The Diamond Mine" - 2:24
    2. "Warriors of the Wasteland (Twelve Wild Disciples Mix)" - 9:44
    3. "Warriors of the Wasteland (7" A-side/Instrumental with chorus)" - 5:01
    4. "Warriors (Of The Wasteland) (7" B-side)" - 3:55
    5. "Monopoly Re-Solution" - 2:25
  12. "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" - 4:20
  13. "Watching The Wildlife (Voiceless)" - 3:51
  • Track 1 is the first 12" mix of "Relax", infamous for its length, the slightly offensive lines present through Holly's rambling and not including the regular song.
  • Tracks 2, 5, 7 and 9 are interview excerpts that were only released on singlettes. Tracks 4 and 10 are spoken-dialogue tracks bridging the start and end "Two Tribes" singlette.
  • Track 6 is the second 12" mix of "Two Tribes".
  • Tracks 3 and 8 are the regular 12" cover B-sides to "Relax" and "Two Tribes" respectively.
  • Track 11 was originally released as a single-track CD single in 1986. Track 11.3 is a mix of the album version without vocals except in the chorus at the end.
  • Track 12 is a cover of Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?", first released in 2009 on the now-discontinued digital version of Frankie Say Greatest and is nowadays exclusive to this release. It was intended to be one of Warriors's planned B-sides, according to several sources.
  • Track 13 was originally released as one of the B-sides to "Watching The Wildlife", except unlike previous releases it is not combined with bits 1 and 2.

References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120728130628/http://www.ztt.com/news/the_fgth_sexmix_an_apology.html
  2. http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/sex-mix-fix-frankie-replacement-cd/
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