Guerolito
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Guerolito is the first remix album
Remix album
A remix album is an album consisting mostly of remixes or re-recorded versions of a music artists' earlier released material.One of the earliest remix albums was 1971's Aerial Pandemonium Ballet by Harry Nilsson, which was released by Nilsson after the successes of Everybody's Talkin and The Point!...

 by Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

, released in December 2005. It features all of the songs from regular edition of Guero
Guero
Guero is the ninth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, first released in March 2005 on Interscope Records. It debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart at #2 , and in the UK at #15 . To date, this is Beck's highest charting CD...

in remixed forms by a variety of artists, with the addition of "Clap Hands", originally found on the special limited edition of Guero.

Guerolito reached #191 on the Billboard charts. As of July 2008, Guerolito has sold 76,000 copies in the United States.

Background

In an interview with Wired magazine in September 2006, Beck challenged other artists to follow his lead—set by Guerolito—in abandoning the traditional concept of an album release:

Track listing

All songs were written by Beck Hansen and The Dust Brothers
Dust Brothers
The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles, California based, Grammy Award winning producers, E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo , famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to...

, except where noted.
  1. "Ghost Range" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Beastie Boys
    Beastie Boys
    Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....

    ) – 4:24
    • "E-Pro
      E-Pro
      "E-Pro" is the opening track on Beck's 2005 album Guero. It was released as the lead single from the album in March 2005. The song was Beck's second #1 on the Modern Rock chart and his first in eleven years...

      " remix by Homelife
  2. "Qué Onda Guero" – 2:29
    • Islands
      Islands (band)
      Islands is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York.-Return to the Sea:In mid-2005 Islands recorded a debut album titled Return to the Sea, which was released in April 2006...

       remix
  3. "Girl
    Girl (Beck song)
    "Girl" is a Beck song from the 2005 album Guero. It was released as the second single from the album in July 2005. The video for the song, created by , was inspired by the MAD fold-ins by Al Jaffee.The song begins with a simple chiptune melody...

    " – 3:53
    • Octet remix
    • Originally released in the special edition CD/DVD package of Guero
      Guero
      Guero is the ninth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, first released in March 2005 on Interscope Records. It debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart at #2 , and in the UK at #15 . To date, this is Beck's highest charting CD...

  4. "Heaven Hammer" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Marcos Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Eduardo Lyra) – 4:54
    • "Missing" remix by Air
  5. "Shake Shake Tambourine" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Eugene Blacknell) – 3:37
    • "Black Tambourine" remix by Ad-Rock
  6. "Terremoto Tempo" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Mark Adams, Steve Washington, Daniel Webster, Mark Hicks) – 3:47
    • "Earthquake Weather" remix by Mario C
      Mario Caldato Jr.
      Mario Caldato, Jr. is a Brazilian record producer and studio engineer best known for his work with the Beastie Boys and Tone Loc. Born February 24, 1961 in São Paulo, Brazil, he and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1963...

  7. "Ghettochip Malfunction" – 2:39
    • "Hell Yes" remix by 8-Bit
    • Originally released on the Hell Yes EP.
  8. "Broken Drum" (Hansen) – 5:36
    • Boards of Canada
      Boards of Canada
      Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...

       remix
    • Originally released in the special edition CD/DVD package of Guero
  9. "Scarecrow" – 4:37
    • El-P remix
  10. "Wish Coin" (Hansen, Dust Brothers, Jack White
    Jack White (musician)
    Jack White , often credited as Jack White III, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and occasional actor...

    ) – 3:44
    • "Go It Alone" remix by Diplo
  11. "Farewell Ride" (Hansen) – 4:51
    • Subtle
      Subtle (music)
      Subtle is a music group consisting of Adam Drucker, Jeffrey Logan, Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, Alexander Kort, and Marty Dowers. Although both Adam and Jeff have strong ties to the anticon. music collective, Subtle is not on the Anticon roster. Subtle started as an Oakland-based band in 2001...

       remix
  12. "Rental Car" – 2:59
    • John King
      Dust Brothers
      The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles, California based, Grammy Award winning producers, E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo , famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to...

       remix
  13. "Emergency Exit" – 3:18
    • Th' Corn Gangg
      Th' Corn Gangg
      Th' Corn Gangg is an indie pop/hip hop band from Montreal, Canada. The band was founded by Jamie Thompson and Nicholas Thorburn as a direct off-shoot project of The Unicorns several months prior to their December 2004 break-up, but prior to the formation of Islands by those same two musicians.Th'...

       remix
  14. "Clap Hands" – 3:19
    • Originally released in the special edition CD/DVD package of Guero

Bonus tracks on UK release

  1. "Fax Machine Anthem (Hell Yes)" – 3:07
    • Dizzee Rascal
      Dizzee Rascal
      Dylan Kwabena Mills , better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a Ghanaian British rapper, songwriter and record producer. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles...

       remix
    • Originally released in the special edition CD/DVD package of Guero
  2. "Qué Onda Guero" – 4:44
    • Nortec Collective
      Nortec Collective
      Nortec Collective is a musical ensemble formed by various individual one or two man production projects. The group came together in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Their sound genre mixes electronica with musical elements and instrumentation of Tambora and Norteño music, resulting in the nortec ...

      remix
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