Utopia (Goldfrapp song)
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"Utopia" is an electronic
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 song performed by British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 group Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp are an English electronic music duo, formed in 1999 in London, England, that consists of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory ....

. The song was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp is an English singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead singer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp. Goldfrapp has a soprano vocal range.-Early life:...

 and Will Gregory
Will Gregory
William Owen Gregory is best known as a songwriter, and the lead keyboards/synthesizer player & producer of the electronic music group Goldfrapp. Originally a classical music student at the University of York, Gregory is the son of an actress and an opera chorus-line singer...

 for the duo's debut album Felt Mountain
Felt Mountain
Felt Mountain is the debut album by English electronic duo Goldfrapp. It was released in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2000 by Mute Records...

(2000). It was released as the album's second single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 in October 2000.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Utopia".

CD single / 12"
  1. "Utopia" (Original mix) – 4:18
  2. "Utopia" (New Ears mix) – 3:10
  3. "Utopia" (Sunroof mix) – 7:40


Official remixes
  1. "Utopia" (Sunroof mix radio edit) – 4:15
  2. "Utopia" (DNA mix) – 4:20
  3. "Utopia" (Plaid mix) – 4:42

Utopia(Genetically Enriched) (remixed version)

"Utopia (Genetically Enriched)" is an electronic
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 remix of a song that was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp is an English singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead singer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp. Goldfrapp has a soprano vocal range.-Early life:...

 and Will Gregory
Will Gregory
William Owen Gregory is best known as a songwriter, and the lead keyboards/synthesizer player & producer of the electronic music group Goldfrapp. Originally a classical music student at the University of York, Gregory is the son of an actress and an opera chorus-line singer...

 for the duo's debut album Felt Mountain
Felt Mountain
Felt Mountain is the debut album by English electronic duo Goldfrapp. It was released in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2000 by Mute Records...

(2000). It was released as the album's fourth single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 in June 2001.

"Utopia (Genetically Enriched)" became Goldfrapp's first song to chart in their native United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. The song debuted on the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 in the week ending 23 June 2001 at number sixty-two.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Utopia (Genetically Enriched)".

UK CD1 (CDMUTE264)
  1. "Utopia (Genetically Enriched)" – 3:49
  2. "U.K. Girls (Physical)
    Physical (Olivia Newton-John song)
    "Physical" is a song by Australian pop singer Olivia Newton-John, released in September 1981. The song was an immediate success, shipping 2 million copies in the United States, being certified Platinum, and spending 10 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, ultimately becoming Newton-John's...

    " – 4:48
  3. "Human" (live at the Ancienne Belgique) – 4:44


UK CD2 (LCDMUTE264)
  1. "Utopia" (Jori Hulkkonen
    Jori Hulkkonen
    Jori Hulkkonen, born 28 September 1973, is a Finnish DJ and a producer of house music, originally from Kemi, Finland. Hulkkonen started his career in the early 1990s when he worked with Jukka Hautamäki, Tuomas Salmela and Ari Ruokamo for their own label Lumi Records...

     remix) – 6:12
  2. "Utopia" (Tom Middleton
    Tom Middleton
    Tom Middleton is a prolific British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ.A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James , co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the Analogue Bubblebath EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records...

     Cosmos Vocal) – 8:16
  3. "Utopia" (Tim Wright
    Tim Wright (UK musician)
    Tim Wright has been active as a musician and composer since the early 1990s, working predominantly at the experimental end of the spectrum of electronica and dance music.-Germ:...

    remix) – 5:09


UK 12" (12MUTE264)
  1. "Utopia" (Tom Middleton Cosmos Acid Vocal)
  2. "Utopia" (Jori Hulkkonen remix)
  3. "Utopia" (Tim Wright remix)


U.S. EP
  1. "Utopia (Genetically Enriched)" – 3:49
  2. "UK Girls (Physical)" – 4:48
  3. "Human" (Live at the Ancienne Belgique) – 4:44
  4. "Human" (Calexico vocal) – 4:47
  5. "Utopia" (Jori Hulkkonen remix) – 6:15
  6. "Utopia" (Tom Middleton's Cosmos vocal) – 8:15
  7. "Utopia" (Tim Wright remix) – 5:09
  8. "Utopia" (Sunroof mix) – 7:39


Official remixes
  1. "Utopia" (Tom Middleton's Cosmos Acid dub) – 7:19
  2. "Shifting Utopia" (Pulsar vs Goldfrapp)
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