Full Circle (Icehouse album)
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Full Circle is a 2CD
Compact Disc
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 collection of remixed
Remixed
Remixed may refer to:*Remixed, an EP by Le Car*Remixed *Remixed , 2001*Remixed , 2001*Remixed *Remixed , 2003*Remixed...

 tracks by Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n rock
Rock music
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 synthpop
Synthpop
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 band Icehouse
Icehouse (band)
Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop style music and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S...

 released in December 1994 on Massive Records. It also features a variety of musicians including the Bangarra Dance Company, Elcho Island and guitar virtuoso
Virtuoso
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, Buckethead
Buckethead
Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

 who would later join Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...

. Disc 1 is subtitled The Revolution Mixes and disc 2 is The Time & Motion Mixes; tracks "Shakin' the Cage", "MLK" and "Dedicated to Glam" as well as an edited version of "The Great Southern Mix
Great Southern Land
"Great Southern Land" is a single released by Australian rock band Icehouse. It was released in August 1982, before the album Primitive Man. Peaking at number five on the Australian Singles Chart, it was later featured in the 1988 Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein, and remains their most popular...

" had been released in June 1993 on the Spin One
Spin One
Spin One is a four track EP released by Australian synthpop rock band Icehouse in June 1993. Three tracks, "Shakin' the Cage", "Dedicated to Glam" and "MLK", are also on the double CD remix album, Full Circle, released in December 1994...

EP
Extended play
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. "Desdemona" is a cover version of the John's Children
John's Children
John's Children were a 1960s pop art/mod rock band from Leatherhead, England that briefly featured future T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan. John's Children were known for their outrageous live performances and were booted off a tour with The Who in Germany in 1967 when they upstaged the headliners...

 single, composed by Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist...

.

Disc 1: The Revolution Mixes

  1. "Shakin' the Cage" (Techno)
  2. "Colours"
  3. "Desdemona"
  4. "Mercy"
  5. "Yo, Micro Babe"
  6. "MLK"
  7. "She Comes"
  8. "Wild"
  9. "Dedicated to Glam"

Disc 2: The Time & Motion Mixes

  1. "Melt Steel - Part 1"
  2. "Slow Motion"
  3. "Kilimanjaro"
  4. "Melt Steel - Part 2"
  5. "Blue Noise"
  6. "The Great Southern Mix
    Great Southern Land
    "Great Southern Land" is a single released by Australian rock band Icehouse. It was released in August 1982, before the album Primitive Man. Peaking at number five on the Australian Singles Chart, it was later featured in the 1988 Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein, and remains their most popular...

    "
  7. "Melt Steel - Part 3"

  • "Melt Steel" contains segments of an interview with Marc Bolan
    Marc Bolan
    Marc Bolan was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist...

    .

Personnel

Credited to:
  • Cameron Allan — producer, mixing
  • Christina Amphlett
    Christina Amphlett
    Christine Joy Amphlett was the lead singer of Australian rock band Divinyls. She is also known as Chrissy Amphlett.She grew up in Geelong as a singer and dancer...

     — vocals
  • Jenny Andrews — vocals
  • Marc Bolan
    Marc Bolan
    Marc Bolan was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist...

     — interviewer, dialogue
  • Buckethead
    Buckethead
    Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

     — guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Charles Clouser — producer, mixing
  • Iva Davies
    Iva Davies
    Iva Davies , is the frontman for Australian electro/new wave/rock band Icehouse.-Biography:...

     — producer, engineer, performer, mixing
  • 808 State
    808 State
    808 State are a British electronic music outfit, formed in 1987 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine and their common state of mind...

     — remixing
  • Alan Fisch — engineer
  • Oz Fritz — engineer
  • Mark Gamble — producer, mixing
  • Ray Hearn — project supervisor
  • Jon Ingoldsby — guitar
  • Bill Laswell
    Bill Laswell
    Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....

     — bass, guitar (bass), producer, mixing, basic track
  • Simon Leadley — engineer, editing, mastering, mixing
  • Banula Marika — vocals, clapping cticks
  • Don Murray
    Don Murray
    Don Murray may refer to:*Don Murray , jazz musician*Don Murray *Don Murray , Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the Boston Herald*Don Murray , of the group The Turtles...

     — didjeridu
  • Steven Page
    Steven Page
    Steven Jay Page , is a Canadian musician. Along with Ed Robertson, he was a founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and a primary songwriter of the music group Barenaked Ladies ; he left the band in 2009 to pursue a solo career....

     — coordination
  • Bernie Worrell
    Bernie Worrell
    George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...

     — keyboards
  • Yassa
    Yassa
    Yassa was a secret written code of law created by Genghis Khan. It was the principal law under the Mongol Empire even though no copies were made available...

    — rap

All recording and mixing at General Dynamics, Trackdown Studios, Studio 301, FON Studios, Western Boulevarde.
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