Slow Country (Curtis Lynch Jr. Remix)

Slow Country (Curtis Lynch Jr. Remix), also known as Slow Country (Curtis Lynch Jnr Mix), is a remix of the Gorillaz song Slow Country made by reggae musician producer and Curtis Lynch Jr., who also produced the song "Dracula", featuring additional vocals by rapper Spragga Benz. It was featured on its own promo acetate and as a B-side track on the vinyl releases of "Clint Eastwood (Ed Case Refix)" alongside "Tomorrow Comes Today (Carl H. Remix)" from late 2000.

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"Slow Country" was one of the three songs strongly considered to be singles during the early stages of the band, alongside "Clint Eastwood" and "Tomorrow Comes Today". The three remixes, by Curtis Lynch Jr., Ed Case & Sweetie Irie and Carl Humphrey, respectively, were made as a way to promote the band and the songs, increasing their popularity and getting them airplay in clubs and dancehall places and to move the songs which got the most plays to wider public releases. "Tomorrow Comes Today" and "Clint Eastwood" were both choosen to be singles, with the Tomorrow Comes Today EP becoming the band's first commercial release, unlike "Slow Country", which was only released later on the band's debut album, Gorillaz.undefined Because of this, Curtis' remix of "Slow Country" did not get featured on any other release of the band, not even being included on G-Sides 's tracklist.

Curtis said on an interview to the Hip Albatross blog: “''In terms of the mixes I had done, I was getting good airplay and interest in the club and dancehall community. So, it was a marketing decision from Parlophone to have a set of remixes for some of the singles to not only get the songs airplay in more clubs and dancehall places, but to work out which singles got the most plays and could then be moved to a much more public release. That’s what happened with 'Clint Eastwood' which I think got more popular initially through its remix by Ed Case and Sweetie Irie, so they ended up going with that one, and not 'Slow Country'.''”

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 * This remix was technically Gorillaz' actual first public release, as its promo acetate was released on the 25th of August 2000, before the Tomorrow Comes Today EP even came out.
 * The EP also didn't include Carl H's remix of "Tomorrow Comes Today", in contrary to the single release of "Clint Eastwood", which featured Ed Case's refix as a B-side track.