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Nil Recurring (also Transmission 5.1) is an EP by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, released on 17 September 2007 through the band's online store. The mini-album is composed of four tracks written during the Fear of a Blank Planet recording sessions and completed over the summer of 2007, of which one was a track originally composed for Fear of a Blank Planet but later dropped from the final tracklist. Nil Recurring entered the UK Top 30 Independent Label Albums at #8[1] and remains #1 EP of 2007 on Rate Your Music.[2]
[edit] Writing and recordingThe band met in London on July 2006 to work on new material for Fear of a Blank Planet album. At the time, two songs ("My Ashes" and "Normal") were already written. Those sessions produced the album songs (except for "Way Out of Here") plus four more songs of which three would not quite fit the concept, the only one the band thought that could make the way into the record at this moment was "Cheating the Polygraph", that's the reason why they performed it during the tour on support of the Arriving Somewhere DVD. But the band later decided none of the four songs were up to the standards of the record, as they weren't properly developed yet, and there was a policy not to make the album over fifty minutes long.[3] So the four tracks were mixed between June and August 2007 to make the Nil Recurring EP. "Normal" was composed entirely by Steven Wilson. He later reworked the song, simplifying its structure to transform it into the song "Sentimental".[4] Barbieri summarized the album as "an EP that’s going to be of some value to the fans instead of just a couple of new tracks and some things they’ve already got."[5] [edit] ReleaseThe first press of the album was issued on Porcupine Tree's own label, Transmission, and was limited to 5000 copies in a fold-out digipak. It was originally decided to sell 3000 copies through the band's online store and sell the remaining 2000 at shows on the forthcoming tour, but the initial run of pre-orders through the online store were sold out in a period of 24 hours[6] so the band quickly put out more copies, whether for purchase or download in MP3/FLAC formats at a very cheap cost; the downloadable version includes exclusive printable artwork. A Japanese edition was released through WHD in late October 2007 and includes the radio edit of "Fear of a Blank Planet" as a bonus track. A second (unlimited) super jewel box (inside a cardboard slipcover) edition was released in February 18, 2008 on Peaceville Records.[7] [edit] Title and conceptPorcupine Tree's frontman, Steven Wilson, explained the meaning of the EP's title and commented about its relationship with the concept of Fear of a Blank Planet:
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[edit] Mini sitePeaceville Records set a Nil Recurring minisite related to the issue of the EP, including full audio streamings for each track. The video for an edit of the track "Normal" was initially intended to be posted on February 15, 2008 but its release date was moved forward to February 9, 2008. It is now available for viewing through the minisite. The site is available in four languages: English, German, French and Italian. [edit] 5.1 SurroundIn addition to the standard version, the EP is also available in 5.1 Surround Sound on the DVDA version of Fear of a Blank Planet.
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