''Solutions for a Small Planet'' is an album released by
Haujobb
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on
Off Beat records in 1996. It was released in the
United States
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by the distributor
Metropolis Records
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. It has been acclaimed for crossing boundaries of various
electronic music
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genres
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.
Track listing
#"Clockwise"
#"Anti/Matter"
#"Rising Sun"
#"Depths"
#"Sub Unit One"
#"Journey Ahead"
#"Distance"
#"Deviation"
#"Nature's Interface"
#"Sub Unit Two"
#"Cleaned Vision"
#"The Cage Complex"
#"Net Culture"
#"Transfer"
#"Sub Unit Three"
Keeping with the album's
cyber theme, the track "Nature's Interface" features a
sample, "Whatever is out here we're gonna be the first humans to see", from the second season ''
Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode "
Q-Who?", which featured the cybernetic
Borg
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race as adversaries.
The album title is taken from an advertising slogan used by
IBM in the mid-1990s.
Members
*Daniel Myer
*Dejan Samardzic
*Andreas Fricke (
saxophone
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on "The Cage Complex")
References
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1996 albums
Metropolis Records albums