Electro Glide In Blue
Apollo 440
Electro Glide in Blue is the second studio album by Liverpool-based electronic group Apollo 440 — comprising brothers Howard and Trevor Gray alongside Noko — released on March 3, 1997 via Stealth Sonic Recordings and Epic Records in the UK, and September 1997 in the US on 550 Music. Recorded at their own Apollo Control studio in Camden, London, the album takes its title from the 1973 Robert Blake film Electra Glide in Blue and represents one of the high-water marks of the late-1990s big beat movement, blending drum and bass, jungle, breakbeat, ambient electronics, and hard rock into a sprawling 71-minute statement. Its most commercially successful moment was "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub," a full-tilt dub deconstruction of Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" that reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, while "Krupa" paid homage to jazz drumming legend Gene Krupa with a track that earned its own chart run the previous year.
Beyond its singles, the album carries a haunting undercurrent shaped by collaborators who had died before its release. "Tears of the Gods" incorporates the voice of Charles Bukowski, and "Pain in Any Language" features Scottish singer Billy Mackenzie of The Associates, who took his own life in January 1997, weeks before the album came out — lending the track an especially heavy emotional weight. The nearly nine-minute title track itself is a slow-building ambient and chillout centerpiece, layering sampled sounds, electronics, and flickering blues guitar into something genuinely cinematic. A limited-edition blue vinyl 2LP reissue on Music On Vinyl, pressed on 180-gram audiophile vinyl and limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, brought the album back to vinyl for the first time since its original 1997 pressing in November 2025.
Electro Glide In Blue
Apollo 440
Electro Glide in Blue is the second studio album by Liverpool-based electronic group Apollo 440 — comprising brothers Howard and Trevor Gray alongside Noko — released on March 3, 1997 via Stealth Sonic Recordings and Epic Records in the UK, and September 1997 in the US on 550 Music. Recorded at their own Apollo Control studio in Camden, London, the album takes its title from the 1973 Robert Blake film Electra Glide in Blue and represents one of the high-water marks of the late-1990s big beat movement, blending drum and bass, jungle, breakbeat, ambient electronics, and hard rock into a sprawling 71-minute statement. Its most commercially successful moment was "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub," a full-tilt dub deconstruction of Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" that reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, while "Krupa" paid homage to jazz drumming legend Gene Krupa with a track that earned its own chart run the previous year.
Beyond its singles, the album carries a haunting undercurrent shaped by collaborators who had died before its release. "Tears of the Gods" incorporates the voice of Charles Bukowski, and "Pain in Any Language" features Scottish singer Billy Mackenzie of The Associates, who took his own life in January 1997, weeks before the album came out — lending the track an especially heavy emotional weight. The nearly nine-minute title track itself is a slow-building ambient and chillout centerpiece, layering sampled sounds, electronics, and flickering blues guitar into something genuinely cinematic. A limited-edition blue vinyl 2LP reissue on Music On Vinyl, pressed on 180-gram audiophile vinyl and limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, brought the album back to vinyl for the first time since its original 1997 pressing in November 2025.