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December 17th, 2000
Next release will be 'The Energy' on Bedrock Records in the new year, the band are close to signing a major US deal that will greatly increase the profile of the band and are thinking about performing at the Chillenium festival in Ibiza in July as well as their first USA tour. See info about Chillenium festival 2000.
December 3rd, 2000
The Eugina remixes enters the UK singles chart at number 58, the original release entered at number 40 back in 1996.
November 23rd, 2000
Eugina (Michael Woods Remix) is featured on the new Transcendental Euphoria album mixed by Dave Pearce released on 20th November. The hype is building for the release of Eugina on Monday and Dave Pearce is currently playing it on Radio 1.
November 18th, 2000
The release date of the new Eugina remixes has been put back to 27/11/00, it is 6 years since Eugina hit the charts, and has since been deleted. See the 'Lost Language' website for a review.
October 29th, 2000
Listen to 45 second samples of the tracks featured on the Eugina re-release at 'Lost Language'. Eugina enters the Galaxy Cool Cuts Chart at no.9.
October 20th, 2000
The release date of Eugina 2000 is set for 13/11/00 on the young record label 'Lost Language'. The tracklisting has been finalised and artwork completed, check Eugina 2000 on the releases page. There are also a few of the remix albums 'head straight for the salt tank mix' available via mail order, check the merchandise page.
October 15th, 2000
As the release of Eugina 2000 draws near, a new remix of Eugina 2000 by the patient saints is available to listen to on this website, it is not to be commercially released so is exclusive to the Net !
October 7th, 2000
The deal is signed for the Energy track to Bedrock and promos of Eugina disc 2 are cut, featuring a new mix of Sargasso Sea [km5 mix] and a Eugina mix by dj tiesto as well as the Micheal Woods mix [our favourite] and our own 'better than the original mix'.
September 1st, 2000
Salt Tank have finished a vocal version of the Caveman track for the new album =now called round & round. They are very pleased with it, and are working on other trax with vocals, currently negotiating publishing deal. Promos of Eugina 2000 are released, very limited copies in Ibiza and London-Plastic Fantastic record store. A new ambient mix of Dimension has also been finished.
August 22nd, 2000
Salt Tank have completed 2 remixes of Eugina and Slacker are working on the final one. There is also a fabulous remix by micheal woods [ex matt darey asssistant] that sounds like Eugina and Sasha's Xpander track seamlessly melted into a wonderful piece.
August 20th, 2000
Salt Tank have put together a remix album 'head straight for the salt tank mix', named after the review of the Apollo 440 remix in Muzik magazine. It contains their best remixes, including an unreleased remix of Orbital's - Lush, the full version of Chicane - Offshore remix, Sueno Latino, Apollo 440, Paul van Dyk, Astralasia and Chakra's Home. The 8 track CD is only available from this website and in a limited release of 50 promo copies only. See the merchandise page for tracklisting and ordering details.
August 9th, 2000
Exclusive to this website, listen to 2 rare unreleased Salt Tank remixes of Orbital's Lush that have previously only been heard inside the offices of Internal Records. The remixes were both recorded in 1993, just around the time of Eugina and before Olympic. The reason that they were not released, was explained by David Gates:"we remixed just after we had signed to Internal, although we still hadn't released anything then so when the mixes were chosen for the release the other people had a bigger profile at the time so ours didn't come out."
A strange fact ! - Paul Hartnoll from Orbital was seen wearing a Salt Tank T-shirt [brown issue 1 large logo type] during their performance at Glastonbury 95.
The remixes are in 2 versions, 'salt tank's guitar mix' and David's favourite, 'salt tank's teisco bass mix'. Visit the rare section of the remixes page, and also now available to listen to, is a great Salt Tank remix of 12 Trees - Last Sonata.
July 19th, 2000
Congratulations to David and his wife on the birth of their first child Esalan Charlotte Gates who was born last Tuesday. Understandably she is keeping David busy at the moment. He is currently putting a vocal by Neve to Angel Falls for the next Chilled Euphoria album along with an ambient mix of Dimension. Eugina should be out soon with all new mixes - "all the bits we wanted to improve on the original are now done, we went back to the same studio -eden and used exactly the same equipment !"
May 30th, 2000
A new mix of Eugina for 2000 is featured on the Chilled Euphoria compilation digitally mixed by Red Jerry released yesterday. Well worth checking out, Eugina mixed in with Primal Scream's 'Come Together' and featuring tracks by Sabres of Paradise, Brian Eno, Chicane, Gentle People, Moby and many more!
April 16th, 2000
New track 'The Energy' will come out as Salt Tank on Bedrock Records. 'Patience' will come out as The Patient Saints [i.e. David Gates and Swordfish of Astralasia] on Manifesto. The album and new mix of 'Eugina' will probably come out on Hooj or another label, but all this summer ! An ambient mix of 'Dimension' maybe on Cafe del Mar 7 and Euphoria Chill Out. Salt Tank may also be producing an artist called Neve, who as 'Angela John' sang on Jose Padilla's last album Souvenir, she may also sing on a new version of 'Sargasso Sea' for the album or her album or both !
February 27th, 2000
Check out a new interview from Digital Artifact magazine, where Salt Tank reveal their roots, musical influences and talk about plans for the future.
February 12th, 2000
There are very interesting times ahead for Salt Tank, here's the latest news.
- New track to come out on John Digweeds Bedrock label in 2 months time called 'The Energy'----its hard tech trance.
- The track with the Space Brothers is likely to be signed soon ---- called 'Patience'.
- David is starting to help Manifesto Records compile 'Cafe del Mar 7'.
- Salt Tank have the rights back to re-record 'EUGINA' so expect a summer release with top remixes and a fairly true to original new version from the Salt Tank duo.
- Top new track -working title 'Tempest' will be the follow up single after Eugina and ALBUM.
January 14th, 2000
The 1 hour Salt Tank DJ mix to be broadcast on the Ministry Of Sound radio webcast due to air on January 16th has been re-scheduled to today, January 14th.
January 9th, 2000
The tracklisting for the new album is going to be 'dimension', 'rezmorize', 'ocean', 'caveman', 'stormchase', 'eviane[the funky mix version]' plus some more from about 7 others to make up 10 trax segued together. Although before the release of the album, there are likely to be 2 more EPs or singles released so the tracklisting may change. Early in the new year, the Space Brothers/Astralasia collaboration called 'patience' is to be released, currently Paul Oakenfold has the only acetate. A new track called 'the energy ' which is very driving minimalist tech trance maybe released as part of an EP called 'elements'. David is currently compiling an ambient mix album a la Cafe del Mar style.
January 4th, 2000
Happy New Year ! For the start of the new Millennium, the website has been redesigned. Frames are no longer used, there is a new navigation bar and a site search feature has been added. Feel free to e-mail your feedback of the new design to the site webmaster to chris@salttank.co.uk. The releases page has also been updated to include more real audio samples, including the very first Salt Tank white label release featuring 'Charged Up' with lyrics.Old News Archive: 2004 News 2003 News 2002 News 2001 News 1999 News 1998 News 1997 News
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