21 years ago, Fire, the debut album by Detroit’s Electric Six was granted Gold Record status after the band exploded onto the scene in 2003 and broke dancefloors everywhere. Containing the hit singles ‘Danger! High Voltage!’ with rumoured backing vocals by Jack White, and the iconic ‘Gay Bar’, the album celebrates its 21st anniversary this year. As part of the celebration, we will release a remastered edition of Fire on vinyl and cd, and the cd will include 5 bonus tracks + there’s a Limited Edition Box Set Containing 27 rarities and 12 unreleased tracks, Bonus DVD w/ never-before-seen-footage, all-new 40 page booklet and more!
Fire was recorded in 2002 and 2003 at White Room Studios and Ghetto Recorders in Michigan with additional work at Abbey Road and Olympic Studios in London. The first single from the album, ‘Danger! High Voltage’ received glowing reviews and Pitchfork said it “drops a hard beat, announcing itself with taut wah-wah guitars before exploding into fuzztone and horns while singer Dick Valentine duets with the White Stripes’ Jack White”.
The next single was ‘Gay Bar‘, and the video was awarded Video Of The Year from both Q and Kerrang which helped it rise to #5 on the UK charts. The third single from the album, ‘Dance Commander’ has an epic video which was made by acclaimed director Ruben Fleischer.
Electric Six – Dance Commander HD
Praise for Electric Six
“The rock equivalent of a duty-bound pack of Wild West outlaws who’ve spent the last 25 years on Mars and are now
returning to right the musical wrongs of us puny Earth creatures” – THE DETROIT METRO TIMES
“brilliantly demented party record” – ROLLING STONE
“They exist only to rock your world. If you don’t let them, you’re the stupid one” – VILLAGE VOICE
LISTEN TO UNRELEASED TRACK ‘MC SUCKA DJ’
ELECTRIC SIX – FIRE LIMITED EDITION BOX SET
On February 28th, 2025 we will celebrate the 21st anniversary of Fire’s release, with an expansive limited-edition investigation into their strange legend. The multi-format box set contains the original album (remastered), a LP containing 15 rarities & unreleased tracks, a DVD of suggestive video evidence, a bonus CD with even more bonus tracks, an exhausting 40-page investigative summary booklet and piles of declassified additional evidence.
The Fire boxset contains:
FIRE
Deluxe remastered LP of original album
FUTURE EVENTS SUCH AS THESE
Bonus LP of unreleased milestones from the band’s history, including the pre-Wildbunch 1994 demo of Danger! High Voltage
FAKING THE ROCK EFFECT
Bonus DVD of videos, tv appearances, live material, found footage & more, presented on cutting-edge DVD technology
WHAT THEY SHOULDN’T BE DOING
Bonus CD featuring more rarities & b-sides
UNITED BY A COMMON FEAR
Exclusive 40 page booklet tracing the band’s mysterious evolution through hours of eyewitness testimony, much of it unredacted
SEALED EVIDENCE DOSSIER
A packet of never, never-before-seen EVIDENCE which will no longer be sealed once you open it
TRACK LISTINGS
FIRE
A1 Dance Commander
A2. Electric Demons In Love
A3. Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)
A4. Danger! High Voltage
A5. She’s White
A6. I Invented the NightB1. Improper Dancing
B2. Gay Bar
B3. Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)
B4. Getting into the Jam
B5. Vengeance & Fashion
B6. I’m the Bomb
B7. Synthesizer
FIRE – CD ONLY BONUS TRACKS
Neurocameraman (7-inch release, 2001)
I Know Karate (7-inch release, 1996)
Danger! High Voltage (Original 1994 4-track Demo)
I’m On Acid (Live at Old Miami Aug 24, 1996)
Christian Radio (Manchester) (Unreleased, 1997)
LP: FUTURE EVENTS SUCH AS THESE (THE WILDBUNCH YEARS: 1996-2003)
A1 I’m a Demon (And I Love Rock ‘n Roll) (Live, Old Miami, 1996)
A2 MC Sucka DJ (Unreleased, The Unthawed Sessions, 2000)
A3 Neurocameraman (Flying Bomb, 2001)
A4 I am the Knife (Live, Old Miami, 1996)
A5 I Lost Control Of My Rock n Roll (Uchu Cult, 1996)
A6 8-bit Gay Bar (From the Unreleased ‘Wildbunch Video Game’ Soundtrack)
A7 Don’t Be Afraid of the Robot (XL Recordings, 2003)
A8 Synthesizer (Demo, 2000)
B1 Rockshow (XL Recordings, 2003)
B2 Danger! High Voltage (1994 demo, Unreleased 4-track recording)
B3 Computer (Demo, A&M Studios, 1997)
B4 Radio Ga Ga (Unreleased Fire outtake, Fall of Saigon Sessions, 2002)
B5 Nuclear Winter (Alternate Version, 1998)
B6 Jimmy Carter (Demo, 2002)
B7 I Am Detroit (Unreleased, 1998)
CD: WHAT THEY SHOULDN’T BE DOING (BONUS TRACKS)
I Know Karate (7-inch release, Uchu Cult, 1996)
Tiny Little Men (7-inch release, Uchu Cult, 1996)
Gay Bar (7-inch release, Uchu Cult, 1996)
R U You Afraid of the Devil? (Live, Old Miami, 1996)
I’m on Acid (Live, Old Miami, 1996)
Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor) (7-inch release, Flying Bomb, 1997)
Christian Radio (Manchester) – (Demo, A&M Studios, 1997)
Xmas Exorcismus (Ho Ho Ho) (7-inch release, Flying Bomb, 1997)
Dance Commander (Unreleased, The Unthawed Sessions, 2000)
Danger! High Voltage (Original Single Mix, Flying Bomb, 2001)
Improper Dancing (Unreleased, Fire demo sessions, 2002)
I’m the Bomb (Unreleased, Fall of Saigon Sessions, 2002)
DVD: FAKING THE ROCK EFFECT
Videos:
The Wildbunch: Young as Hell (2001)
Dance Commander (2001)
Danger! High Voltage (2003)
TV Appearances:
Chic-a-GoGo-
‘Danger! High Voltage’ (Fall, 2001)
Top of the Pops-
’Danger! High Voltage’ (Jan 2003)
Top of the Pops-
’Gay Bar’ (Jun 2003)Live Footage:
Full Set, Mac’s Bar – Lansing, Michigan – April, 1997
1. Animal Attraction
2. Take Off Your Clothes
3. I Know Karate
4. Computer
5. Speak English
6. Baby is a Nuclear Winter
7. Tiny Little Men
8. I am the Knife
9. Gay Bar
10. Don’t Be Afraid of the Robot
11. Baby vs Baby
12. MC Sucka DJ
13. I Lost Control (of my Rock n Roll)
Clones (We’re All) – The Gold Dollar Bar, June 1997
Don’t Be Afraid of the Robot – The Magic Bag, 1998
Naked Pictures (of Your Mother) – The Gold Dollar Bar, 1999
Vengeance and Fashion – UK, 2002
Improper Dancing – UK, 2002
FOUND FOOTAGE
The Wildbunch Era
Electric Six Era
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
The Ralph Valdez Program – WDET FM Detroit, June 1997
The “Louise Vertigo” Tape
1. Commit No Crime
2. She’s Guatemalan
3. The Dance Commander
4. Fall on My Face
5. Numero de Telefono
6. Jimmy Carter
7. I Came Here to Party
8. Elevator Inspection Time
9. The International Symbol for Radiation
10. Neurocameraman
11. I’m the Bomb
12. Instrumental
PRE-ORDER HERE: https://electricsix.ffm.to/firereissues
https://electricsix.ffm.to/firereissues
TRACK LISTING
A1 Dance Commander
A2. Electric Demons In Love
A3. Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)
A4. Danger! High Voltage
A5. She’s White
A6. I Invented the Night
B1. Improper Dancing
B2. Gay Bar
B3. Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)
B4. Getting into the Jam
B5. Vengeance & Fashion
B6. I’m the Bomb
B7. Synthesizer
CD BONUS TRACKS
Neurocameraman (7-inch release, 2001)
I Know Karate (7-inch release, 1996)
Danger! High Voltage (Original 1994 4-track Demo)
I’m On Acid (Live at Old Miami Aug 24, 1996)
Christian Radio (Manchester) (Unreleased, 1997)
