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Exclusive: Adventures In Stereo’s truly hidden track
23 September 2000

The new Adventures In Stereo album Monomania is a velvet bag full of glow-in-the-dark gems (see our earlier review). But in an exlusive interview last night with Rockbites, AIS founder Jim Beattie revealed that there’s a fourteenth, hidden track on the album that not a single reviewer has yet discovered.
    And we won’t tell you how to find it either, but here’s a clue: reviewers always check to see if there are additional tracks on a disc beyond those indicated on the sleeve, and check to see if the final track is followed by a stretch of silence and then another song or three. With these strategies everyone has missed it. Beattie told us that he had to employ special programming on the CD master to do it. (Some CD-ROM drives just can’t get to the secret track.)
    The mysterious untitled piece is 4 minutes 49 seconds of hypnotic jazz dub, sans vocals save the occasional unintelligible word. It’s a cunningly cool counterpoint to the rest of the album, especially given its placement.
    If you just can’t find the secret Monomania track or perhaps don’t believe it’s there, drop us a line and we’ll tell all.
    We’re transcribing our Jim Beattie/Judith Boyle interview and expect to post it in the near future. | Rockbites review of Monomania | | Bobsled Records | | bio | | discography | | sample | | CD | | top of page |

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