NYのエクスペリエンタル・エレクトロニカ・デュオThe Books、7LP＋DVD＋USBのコンプリート・ボックス『A Dot In Time』を発売

2012年1月に解散した、米ニューヨークのエクスペリエンタル・エレクトロニカ・デュオ、The Books。LP7枚、DVD、USBメモリー、本をセットにしたコンプリート・ボックス・セット『A Dot In Time』が米国で6月26日に発売。

LP、USBメモリー（カセットテープ型）には、スタジオ・アルバム4タイトル（『Thought for Food』『The Lemon of Pink』『Lost and Safe』『The Way Out』）の音源をすべてリマスター仕様で収録し、さらにEP『Music For A French Elevator and Other Oddities』収録曲やレア・トラックも追加。彼らが残した音源をコンプリートした本作には全95曲中45曲が未発表を含むレア音源となる予定。なお、USBメモリーは高音質MP3フォーマットでの収録です。

DVDは初出も含む2時間の内容になる予定で、本は56ページのピクチャー・ブックとなる予定です。

●『A Dot In Time』

1. Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again
2. Read, Eat, Sleep
3. All Bad Ends All
4. Contempt
5. All Our Base Are Belong To Them
6. Thankyoubranch
7. Motherless Bastard
8. Mikey Bass
9. Excess Straussess
10. Getting The Done Job
11. A Dead Fish Gains The Power of Observation
12. Deafkids
13. The Lemon of Pink I
14. The Lemon of Pink II
15. Tokyo
16. Bonanza
17. S Is For Evrysing
18. Explanation Mark
19. There Is No There
20. Take Time
21. Don't Even Sing About It
22. The Future, Wouldn't That Be Nice
23. A True Story of a Story of True Love
24. That Right Ain't Shit
25. PS
26. A Little Longing Goes Away
27. Be Good To Them Always
28. Vogt Dig For Kloppervok
29. Smells Like Content
30. It Never Changes To Stop
31. An Animated Description of Mr. Maps
32. Venice
33. None But Shining Hours
34. If Not Now, Whenever
35. An Owl With Knees
36. Twelve Fold Chain
37. Group Autogenics I
38. IDKT
39. I Didn't Know That
40. A Cold Freezin' Night
41. Beautiful People
42. I Am Who I Am
43. Chain of Missing Links
44. All You Need Is A Wall
45. Thirty Incoming
46. A Wonderful Phrase By Gandhi
47. We Bought The Flood
48. The Story of Hip Hop
49. Free Translator
50. Group Autogenics II
51. Fralite
52. Egaberte
53. Liternite
54. It's Musiiiiic!
55. The Joy of Nature
56. Meditation Outtakes
57. A Long Villainous Sequence
58. Millions of Millions
59. Of the Word God
60. Ghost Train Digest
61. You'll Never be Alone
62. 'Ah..., I See'
63. Three Day Night
64. Classy Penguin
65. 8 Frame
66. Smack My Bishop
67. Biospheric Quiet
68. Happy Lawyers
69. Hericlitus
70. John's Arp
71. Foriegn Country and Western
72. Dustbowl
73. Biospheric Doubletime
74. Drowned But Survived
75. Pickup Dark
76. Hermetic
77. Circle of Fifths Loop
78. Past Comes Welling Up
79. Electro Lawyers
80. Mars, OK
81. Biospheric Dark
82. Flythrough
83. Running Down
84. 8 Tons of Oxygen
85. 10,000 Crows
86. John's Epiphany
87. Lawyer Lullaby
88. Hokie Ranch
89. 2over3 Lawyers
90. Glass Glass
91. Biospheric Zither
92. Found Frozen Corndog
93. Cello Song Feat. Jose Gonzales
94. Epilogue
95. Pig