Background
This remix EP employs some rather unorthodox mixing techniques such as backmasking, layering, flangers, noise and sudden time signature changes to give the listener an intentional sense of confusion on initial (and sometimes subsequent) listenings.
Coil's "Gave Up" remix picks up with a frantic rhythmic jumbling of Trent's vocals directly referencing the lyrics ("it took you to make me realize"). Coil's long-time engineer and collaborator Danny Hyde states that the technique used was "so ludicrous I'll keep it to myself". John Balance (of Coil) expressed his dislike of the chorus and decided they should take it in another direction, hence the vastly mutated form it ended up taking.
"Throw This Away" is a remix of both "Suck" and "Last" that distinguishes itself by sounding very little like either track. The outro section is an excerpt of Butch Vig's remix of "Last," which was left off the final version of the EP. The unedited mix appeared on the internet as an 8-bit mono 11 kHz file, NIN_LAST.AIFF, available by FTP from cyberden.com in 1993. It disappeared from the site quite some time ago, but can still be found on p2p networks. Reznor subsequently made it available in higher quality (256kbit/s mp3) at remix.nin.com.
Vig later spoke about the remix while answering questions on a music production forum, saying "I started recording a lot of new parts, and took it in a much different direction. When it was finished, Trent thought the front part of the mix didn't fit the EP, so he just used the ending. I'm glad it's on his website. Duke and Steve worked with me on the remix, in the very early days of Garbage."
Jim Thirlwell's second "Wish" remix, "Fist Fuck", features samples of Timothy Leary while the final track, "Screaming Slave", contains various samples of Bob Flanagan being tortured that were recorded during the filming of the "Happiness in Slavery" music video.
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