''In Parts Assembled Solely'' is the fourth EP by

Spahn Ranch Spahn Ranch, also known as the Spahn Movie Ranch, was a 55-acre (22.3 ha) movie ranch in Los Angeles, California. For a period it was used as a ranch, dairy farm and later movie set during the era of westerns. After a decline in use for filming b ...

, released on May 21, 1996, by

Cleopatra Records Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label that has the sub-labels Hypnotic Records, Goldenlane, Stardust, Purple Pyramid, Deadline and X-Ray Records. History Founded in January 1992 by Brian Perera, it specializes in go ...

. It comprises six remixes and four live versions of tracks from the band's 1995 album '' The Coiled One''.

Reception

In his review of ''In Parts Assembled Solely'', Jon Worley of Aiding & Abetting noted that "the only remix that outdoes the original is the first track" and "the live tracks prove that Spahn Ranch can play live, I guess, but they are completely redundant."

CMJ New Music Monthly CMJ Holdings Corp. is a music events, online media company and a distributor of up and coming music CDs, originally founded in 1978, which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published two magazines, ''CMJ New Music ...

listed the EP as the top "Family Album", which offers a list of releases to listen to with one's relatives. ''Sonic Boom'' pointed to the live tracks as being the highlight of the album, saying "the sound quality isn't all that great, yet the live tracks have a raw emotional context to them which they lack in the studio versions."

Track listing

Accolades

Personnel

Adapted from the ''In Parts Assembled Solely'' liner notes. Spahn Ranch *

Athan Maroulis Athanasios Demetrios Maroulis (born September 22, 1964) is an actor, vocalist and record producer born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the older brother of singer Constantine Maroulis and also has a sister, Anastasia. Athan Maroulis formed the New ...

– lead vocals *

Matt Green Matthew Green may refer to: *Matthew Green (British politician) (born 1970), British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Ludlow and subsequently for Shropshire South *Matthew Green (Canadian politician) (born 1980) NDP Member of Parliament f ...

– sampler, keyboards * Harry Lewis – percussion Additional performers * Kent Bancroft – live guitar * Michael Hillerup –

remix A remix, also sometimes called reorchestration or rework, is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, poem, or photograph ca ...

(1, 6) * David Parkinson (as David Glass) – percussion *

Kim Løhde Petersen Birmingham 6 was a Denmark, Danish electro-industrial/electronic body music, EBM group founded in 1991 and named after the Birmingham Six, a group of Ireland, Irish men wrongly imprisoned for the Birmingham pub bombings. Members include Kim Løh ...

– remix (1, 6) * Timothy Wiles (as Überzone) – remix (2–4) Production and design * Judson Leach –

engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

, mixing, remix (5)

Release history

References

External links

''In Parts Assembled Solely''
at

iTunes iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating s ...

''In Parts Assembled Solely''
at

Discogs Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''T ...

(list of releases) {{Spahn Ranch (band) 1996 EPs Remix EPs Spahn Ranch (band) albums Cleopatra Records EPs