Pat Mastelotto - Recidivate

Compilation/Sampler with over 40 tracks from last 20'ish years of pat's work with various friends.

It's two cds, Traps and Buttons- with, Traps CD being more acoustic trap kit drumming and the other disc, Buttons, being more electronic drumming.

Many tracks have been never been previously released , some are edited or mash ups- so its all highlights, or what Robert Fripp might call 'The Money Shots'.

Three previously unreleased remixes i did a few years ago for Steven Wilson's solo record Insurgentes - these remixes have contributions from Flower Kings Roine Stolt and Jonas Reingold - Turkish arranger Cenk Eroglu, French pop star Peter Kingsbery, Bert Lams from the California Guitar Trio, touch Guitarist Markus Reuter, treated trumpet by John Swana, and others

Tracks from all three Tu CDs ( Trey Gunn and I ) CDs - one live track features Iranian singer Azam Ali

Tracks from KTU ( Trey, and I plus Finland's dear devil accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen)

Tracks from both Tuner ( Markus Reuter and I ) studio CDs - our 2nd CD, Pole, was voted top 50 all time greatest progressive rock records by Modern Drummer Magazine) . . . PLUS an 8 min teaser from our upcoming Tuner CD Face (to be released in 2012), this is an epic production featuring dozens of great players.

Two tracks from Tunisia-- my duo with the world greatest living theremin player Pamelia Kurstin.

Two tracks from my 90's garage pop band MasticA.

Two tracks from my blues rock prog project MPTU that featured the legendary Texas albino singer Malford Miligan, Mark Andes the bassist from Spirit/Jo Jo Gun and later Heart and one of the most stunningly unknown guitar heros Phil Brown- one song is a hybrid cover of Green Manalishi (written by Peter Green from the original Fleetwood Mac) and Fred (written by Alan Holdsworth and Tony Williams).

Premix teaser from upcoming CD by Nordic guitar wonder Samuel Halkivist.

Two slabs of electronica from the Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter CD Dervish.

A track from recent release Naked Truth showing the jazzier side of my life with trumpet player Coung Vu (best known for his work with David Bowie and Pat Matheny), Italy acclaimed bass player Lorenzo Feliciati , and British keyboard wiz Roy Powell.

A track from French chart topper Peter Kingsbery's first solo CD produced with pat.

A track from crafty Bill Forth solo CD.

A track from Michael Bernie new solo cd.

Soup- the hit song by stick men w /Michael Bernie.

Pomegranate - a lovely instrumental from the newer Stick Men EP Absolom w/Markus Reuter.

Two tracks from the impossible to find CD 'Escapologost' by German Singer Tovah.

A upbeat dittie from CG3+2 (that's the California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin and myself).

A slice from ProjeKct X ( Belew/Fripp/Gunn/Mastelotto).

A few tracks from my BPM&M record that was made using extracts and outakes from KC projects that includes the voice and guitar of Robert Fripp.

A Bozzio/Mastelotto track mashmixed onto a BPM&M track.

The record ends with a lost track from defunct Fripp/Mastelotto Rad Dance project that features David Singleton on bass synth.

All this and much more.

The CD package designed by Petulia Mattioli includes link to website with behind the scenes stories and details about the recording of each track.