ESCM (album)

ESCM

Studio album by BT

Released

September 22, 1997

Genre

Electronica, trance, progressive trance, drum and bass, breakbeat

Length

76:04 (UK)
71:23 (US)
83:40 (vinyl)

Label

Perfecto/Kinetic/Reprise/Warner Bros. Records
46799

Producer

BT chronology

Ima
(1995)

ESCM
(1997)

Turn Me On
(1999)

Singles from ESCM

"Flaming June"
Released: 1997
"Love, Peace and Grease"
Released: 1997
"Remember"
Released: 1997

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
TranceCritic.com	^[2]
Spin

ESCM (Electric Sky Church Music)^[3] is the second studio album by artist BT, released in 1997. Following Ima, Transeau branched out to create club anthems such as "Flaming June", while also drawing inspiration from drum and bass as well as hip hop. ESCM also features Transeau adding live guitar, bass and drums to songs, as well as the use of a strings ensemble.

Like Ima, ESCM was also mixed to sound like one continuous mix. For US pressings, the loungy drum and bass track "The Road to Lostwithiel" was replaced with the more straightforward "Lullaby for Gaia". Both songs were later made available, in unmixed form, on the retrospect album, 10 Years in the Life. The US pressing also features an edited version of "Love, Peace, and Grease".

Amongst the tracks recorded during the sessions but left unreleased were the track "Lemon Balm and Chamomile", written with Che Malcolm, and "Flesh", written with Jan Johnston. The latter track would later be remixed for a single release by Johnston in 2001.

Track listing

All tracks by Brian Transeau except where noted.

CD pressing

UK CD pressing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Firewater"	8:42
2.	"Orbitus Teranium"	8:10
3.	"Flaming June"	8:31
4.	"The Road to Lostwithiel"	8:38
5.	"Memories in a Sea of Forgetfulness" (with T.H. Culhane)	7:40
6.	"Solar Plexus"	4:14
7.	"Nectar"	5:55
8.	"Remember" (with Jan Johnston)	8:01
9.	"Love, Peace and Grease"	5:21
10.	"Content" (contains an excerpt from "Flaming June (Simon Hale's Orchestrata)" as a hidden track)	10:51

US CD pressing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Firewater"	8:42
2.	"Orbitus Teranium"	8:10
3.	"Flaming June"	8:31
4.	"Lullaby for Gaia" (wih Jan Johnston)	5:26
5.	"Memories in a Sea of Forgetfulness" (with T.H. Culhane)	7:40
6.	"Solar Plexus"	4:14
7.	"Nectar"	5:55
8.	"Remember" (with Jan Johnston)	8:01
9.	"Love, Peace and Grease (BT Puma Fila Edit)"	3:52
10.	"Content" (contains an excerpt from "Flaming June (Simon Hale's Orchestrata)" as a hidden track)	10:51

Vinyl pressing

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Firewater"	8:42
2.	"Orbitus Teranium"	8:10

Side B
No.	Title	Length
3.	"Flaming June"	8:31
4.	"The Road to Lostwithiel"	8:38
5.	"Memories in a Sea of Forgetfulness" (with T.H. Culhane)	7:40

Side C
No.	Title	Length
6.	"Solar Plexus"	4:14
7.	"Nectar"	5:55
8.	"Remember" (with Jan Johnston)	8:01

Side D
No.	Title	Length
9.	"Love, Peace and Grease"	5:21
10.	"Content"	10:51
11.	"Remember (Mood II Swing Remix)"	7:36

Personnel

Simon Hale – strings arrangement on "Firewater", "The Road to Lostwithiel" and "Remember"
T.H. Culhane – vocals on first half of "Firewater"
Paul van Dyk – additional production on "Flaming June"
Jan Johnston – vocals on "Lullaby for Gaia" and "Remember"
Vini Reilly – flamenco guitar on "Remember"
BT – all other vocals, instruments and programming

References

↑ Ned Raggett (1997-09-22). "ESCM - BT | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
↑ "Trancecritic.com". Trancecritic.com. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
↑ Archived July 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

ESCM (UK Edition) at Discogs
ESCM (US Edition) at Discogs

BT

Studio albums	Ima ESCM Movement in Still Life Emotional Technology This Binary Universe These Hopeful Machines If the Stars are Eternal So are You and I Morceau Subrosa A Song Across Wires Untitled album

Compilation albums	R&R Still Life in Motion 10 Years in the Life These Humble Machines These Re-Imagined Machines Laptop Symphony

Extended plays	Turn Me On EP Extended Movement Movement E.P. The Technology EP Human Technology EP

Singles	"Embracing the Future" "Embracing the Sunshine" "Nocturnal Transmission" "Divinity" "Loving You More" "Quark" "Tripping the Light Fantastic" "Blue Skies" "Remember" "Flaming June" "Love, Peace and Grease" "Godspeed" "Dreaming" "The Hip Hop Phenomenon" "Mercury and Solace" "Namistai" "Fibonacci Sequence" "Never Gonna Come Back Down" "Shame" "Smartbomb" "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" "The Force of Gravity" "Superfabulous" "The Great Escape" "Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)" "Love in the Time of Thieves" "The Rose of Jericho" "Suddenly" "Every Other Way" "Forget Me" "The Emergency" "Le nocturne de lumière" "Always" "A Million Stars" "Tomahawk" "Must Be the Love" "Skylarking" "Surrounded"

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