Album name: Olympus 10th Anniversary Collection
Release date: December 29, 2001
Release format: CD
Studio name: Metal XOR Studio
Tracks:
1. Etesian Wind
2. To Clementi
3. Waterfall
4. Castor & Pollux
5. Another Troubled Night
6. Sittin' At Home
7. Moon Mud
8. The Last Temptation
9. Infernal Tree
10. Scales of Justice
11. You and Me
12. Paroxysm
13. I'm With You
14. The Solitude
15. So Many
16. Redman
17. Slow It Down
18. In the Morning
19. Matter in General
20. Night Sea
21. Ministry
22. Moon Garden
23. Audobaun
24. Telescope
25. Country Ill
26. Chaser
27. Just Defied (2)
28. Test
29. Off Silence
30. Mystical Dream
It was decided shortly after the 1999 ORC album Purging the Great Abyss was released (the first Metal XOR album to be released on CD) that the Studio should go back and release some of its previous albums on CD. The project that had the most releases at that point was Mune Mud. So it was the logical starting point for digital re-releases.
In 2001, this album was released as the first in the 10th Anniversary Collection. At that time there were five Mune Mud albums (excluding the debut and EP's) that had been released on cassette. The 10th Anniversary Collection concluded in 2007 with the re-release of Sleep State F.
It was decided early on that in addition to the songs being remixed from the original masters, the albums would also include previously unreleased tracks such as demos, alternate versions, or outtakes. And the packaging would also be new (new covers, labels, etc).
The liner notes give a short history of the album and a few facts about the original tape. The inside of the sleeve lists the same lyrics that appear on the original tape sleeve, the lyrics are all run together making one long word (sentence, paragraph, or whatever).
The first twenty-four tracks on the album are the same as what appeared on the original tape. Tracks 25-30 are the bonus tracks. Of those, tracks 25, 26, 28, and 29 were short outtakes from the Olympus recording sessions. Track 27 was a remake of a song that appeared on the Mune Mud debut album in early 1991. And track 30 was an outtake that was not used because the lyrics and vocals were never finished. "Mystical Dream" did appear as the 'b-side' on the "Waterfall" single in 1992.
Next week's Album of the Week: Underwater Problem Factory 10th Anniversary Collection by Mune Mud from 2002.
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