The Cat Empire - Other Australian releases - Tapes, breaks and out-takes (2003)

Tapes, breaks and out-takes is a collage of snippets of live recordings ('funky breaks' from The Cat Empire's second gig, the Prince of Wales, the Edinburgh Festival, the rehearsal laundry and where they stayed at Napa Valley (US) in 2002), bits and pieces of earlier home recordings ('old tapes' from the Cat Empire trio as well as earlier recordings such as Live @ Adelphia and The Sun) and tunes that didn't make it to the debut mainstream album ('out-takes' such as Wandering, Wanted to Write a Love Song and The Night That Never End), edited (randomly) with commentary and effects. It was released in a slimline jewel case, and is available solely on The Cat Empire's website - 2500 copies were made (confirmed by Correne).

The stain on the artwork (on both the disc and front cover) was not intentional - Ian decided to rescan it and print it again, as the stain reflected the randomness inherent in the album itself.

The track listing is as follows:
1. Wandering - 5:02 - F Riebl (preceded by Late'n'Live host introducing the band during their stint at the Edinburgh Festival in 2002)
2. The Night That Never End - 7:48 - F Riebl (followed by two live snippets, one of which is Jumps performing a scratching solo, which leads into one of the band members playing guitar)
3. The Chariot - 9:06 - F Riebl (taken from The Sun with Harry's 'dub section' mixed into the middle, followed by a drum solo, leading into TCE covering Duke Ellington's 'It Don't Mean a Thing')
4. The Lost Song - 5:53 - F Riebl (taken from Live @ Adelphia, followed by a sped up recording of a night featuring Harry, Correne and Jumps' antics)
5. Wanted to Write a Love Song - 8:22 - F Riebl (featuring an interlude from a live gig of a scratching solo leading into the band doing the theme song from Australian TV show, Ship to Shore, and Hall of the Mountain King. It is followed by TCE doing a Middle Eastern themed improvisation, a version of Feline with Harry rapping, and finally the lead in to Song for the Day)
6. Song for the Day - 5:21 - F Riebl, O McGill (an old trio tune, obviously recorded around the same time as the five-track demo in 2000)
7. The Conspiracy - 4:28 - uncredited (taken from Live @ Adelphia, and is followed by someone (Will, maybe?) with an American accent (which Will is famous for :P) describing their journey with "50 drunken sods towards Arthur's Seat" - footage of this can be seen in the Two Shoes clip of 2004 release, On the Attack)
8. Two Shoes - 6:05 - F Riebl (taken from The Sun, followed by ~40 seconds of silence, Will saying something about the boys performing like "mountain lions", and then finally a 20 second clip of The Cat Empire performing Hello).



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