Pet Shop Boys - The Electric Box Set - The Vinyl Factory / x2 - Limited Edition
£
1,699
$
2,251
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Pet Shop Boys - The Electric Box Set - The Vinyl Factory / x2 - Limited Edition
New - unopened
* Custom-made, multi-coloured fluorescent-edged acrylic box set
* Contains 5 fluorescent coloured 180-gram vinyl records, including a specially made fifth colour never used before
* Features Electric’s nine album tracks, mastered for vinyl and pressed on the EMI 1400
* Vinyl housed in bespoke fluorescent outer and inner sleeves, with fluorescent labels
* Each box set hand signed by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe
* Limited to 350 copies worldwide, individually hand numbered (number in this copy unknown as not been opened - number in photo for illustration purposes only)
The second time that Pet Shop Boys have teamed up with The Vinyl Factory and designer Farrow to upgrade their new material to exhibition standard, the transformation of their 12th studio album Electric, released on the duo’s X2 label this year has been the stuff of myth and hearsay since the Electric box was announced in July.
With the previous collaboration on 2009’s Yes going on to be showcased in the Design Museum and be Record Collector’s ‘Most Collectible Product of the 21st Century’ (an accolade its successor may well also have claim to), the Electric box was sold on the promise of a “5x fluorescent heavyweight vinyl edition housed in an astonishing custom-made, fluorescent-edged, multi-coloured acrylic box”, and a simple design mock-up. All 350 of the bespoke items sold out in under 48 hours, a day faster than Yes.
The box itself sees Electric’s nine tracks split over 5 LP’s for the duo’s first record with producer Stuart Price. With the box hand-signed by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the duo describe Electric as “very much set on the dance floor” – although anyone planning on playing the Electric Box out might want to think twice about laying their hands on the fluorescent wax. “Our latest album often evolves as a response to our previous album and, whereas Elysium had a reflective mood, Electric is pretty banging! And working with Stuart Price on a studio album is something we have wanted to do for a very long time”
Tracklist:
Side A
Axis (5.35)
Side B
Bolshy (5.47)
Side C
Love Is A Bourgeouis Concept (6.44)
Side D
Flourescent (6.18)
Side E
Inside A Dream (5.40)
Side F
The Last To Die (4.15)
Side G
Shouting In The Evening (3.39)
Side H
Thursday (5.05)
Side I
Vocal (6.37)
price rating
